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How to disable features at a global/license level, without touching individual users?
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?
Not every service/feature in O365 is enforcing license requirements, so you cannot rely on this method across the board. Take SPO as an example, every user in the organization can happily browse any sites which are opened to the whole company, regardless of what licenses it has.
You can still use this to limit access to those services that do enforce licensing requirements, and combine it with service-level controls for (some of) the others.
Ok, but then if using the "Licensing" feature isn't the way to do it, how do I just turn stuff off? What if I want to disable SharePoint across the board, or Yammer, and so forth?? Where's the "off switch"? When I go to the Admin Center -> Products, the "Products" page just brings up the list of licenses and the products associated with them, with no way to turn a "product" off.
As I said, it depends on the service. In general, Microsoft's mantra is "enabled by default" and unfortunately not all services can be toggled. SPO is one such example, if you really must disable it, you can use the Conditional access controls, or toggle the IP-based restrictions in the SPO/ODFB admin center.