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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?
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 $license
If 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
Another question I have is, regarding some of these features -- I don't understand why I would want students to have these? Why would Microsoft think that a student should have "Azure Active Directory Basic" or "Azure Rights Management?"
Adam, that's cool -- similar to the autolicense script we're already using, but I guess I didn't realize you could also specify products as part of it. I will work on tweaking what we've got, using some of the parameters I'm seeing in that article. Thanks!!