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How to disable features at a global/license level, without touching individual users?
I'm trying to figure out the answer to something that should be an easy question, but I can't seem to find the documentation I'm looking for, and as per usual O365 tier-1 support has been abysmal.
How do we disable a feature either globally, or at the license level? Like for example, what if I want to turn SharePoint off, or, Microsoft Teams, or any of the other features that we don't want our users using? I understand how to auto-license users via Azure, and I've seen the documentation on how to select a bunch of users and update which products they have access to all at once. But, we don't want to have to do this each time we create users. How do I simply tell Office 365 "anyone with xyz type license should only have abc products, PERIOD???" This can't be this difficult...
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- Group-based licensing might be an option? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/active-directory-licensing-whatis-azure-portal
I've looked through the documentation and I still don't see a way to do what I'm trying to do. I successfully created a new AD group and used Azure portal to assign a license to that group, and only the services I want, but then when I add new people to that group, that license doesn't get applied.
Is there a way to create a NEW license altogether, which only contains the products I want in it?
Hey Matthew Gudites,
This is a problem I had to handle all the time for my clients.
Unfortunately I never found an efficient way to do this in bulk/automatically. I will give you the two options I presented to my clients, and it was up to them to choose.
1. A simple PowerShell script can do this, and in a way you are creating a "New License" like you say. This blog post does a great job of showing the steps to create a new variable that has the options you may want step by step - https://exitcodezero.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/how-to-assign-selective-office-365-license-options/
Lets say I create the Variable $license = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId TenantName:ENTERPRISEPACK -DisabledPlans RMS_S_ENTERPRISE, MCOSTANDARD, SHAREPOINTENTERPRISE
I would then just need to loop through all my users, and assign the license. If you have just one type this is easy:
Get-MsolUser -All | where {$_.isLicensed -eq $true} | Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName user@domain.com -AddLicenses TenantName:ENTERPRISEPACK -LicenseOptions $licenseIf it was a subset of users, you would just need to modify your where statement to filter further.
I would just give them a script that did this, and have them run it once a week.2. I would recommend they build the assignment into their user creation process, through either manually selecting the options to enable in the GUI, or through a similar PS command.
Hope this helps!
Adam
OK so if I'm reading that correctly, I can assign a license (and whatever products I check while making the assignment) to a group, and then anyone who is in that security group will automatically get that "version" of the license with just those products assigned to it?
