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Licensing Admin Roles
Does anyone know what admin roles will be capable of managing user licenses for their tenant? I have read through this article but it doesn't mention permissions to license users:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/About-Office-365-admin-roles-da585eea-f576-4f55-a1e0-87090b6aaa9d
Would this be restricted to global admins, or will user management admins have this capability?
Thanks!
Hi Matt,
Has Juan said, yes, user management is capable to license users:
You can read more here - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Assign-licenses-to-users-in-Office-365-for-business-997596b5-4173-4627-b915-36abac6786dc?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
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FYI, the easiest way to manage license is in the Azure Portal using Group Based licensing, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-licensing-group-assignment-azure-portal
- Dean,
Unfortunately we don't have the AAD Premium licensing that allows this. However, it's something we're looking into. Most of our licensing is automated via PowerShell, but there are some one off scenarios where we need to modify licenses for pilot programs, etc., and I need to delegate access to do that without granting global admin access.Keep in mind that this is just one of the many benefits of AAD Premium.
Keeping a powershell script up to date to ensure that it correctly incorporates the new apps and their licensing options can be a significant effort. This is something that is easy to get wrong and typically requires careful testing. It may be worthwhile to do a cost analysis comparing the time spent maintaining these type of scripts to the AAD premium costs.
Hi Matt,
Has Juan said, yes, user management is capable to license users:
You can read more here - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Assign-licenses-to-users-in-Office-365-for-business-997596b5-4173-4627-b915-36abac6786dc?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
- Nuno,
Thanks, I couldn't seem to find that article in my searching! As always, I appreciate the help!Hi Matt,
Always available to help, but this search was not easy to me to find that information that you needed.
In the past was an article that have a matrix with all the user roles with their previleges that could help more than the information that is abailable now.
- User Management Administrator should be capable to make those tasks
