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Remove license for users
Dears, If we remove license for a user, will he have access to the services Exhange, ondrive... for 30 days? or only the data will stay but the users cannot access Outlook, Owa, Ondrive... Best ...
Hi Robert,
All the information you need to know if in this article:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/office365/admin/subscriptions-and-billing/remove-licenses-from-users?redirectSourcePath=%252fen-ie%252farticle%252fRemove-licenses-from-users-in-Office-365-for-business-9B497C85-D0A4-4735-80FA-D3565BC05BD1&view=o365-worldwide&tabs=One
Recommend you also follow this guide in the event of employee termination or resignation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/office365/admin/add-users/remove-former-employee?view=o365-worldwide
Best, Chris
All the information you need to know if in this article:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/office365/admin/subscriptions-and-billing/remove-licenses-from-users?redirectSourcePath=%252fen-ie%252farticle%252fRemove-licenses-from-users-in-Office-365-for-business-9B497C85-D0A4-4735-80FA-D3565BC05BD1&view=o365-worldwide&tabs=One
Recommend you also follow this guide in the event of employee termination or resignation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/office365/admin/add-users/remove-former-employee?view=o365-worldwide
Best, Chris
- Hi Chris,
I have already read both articles but they are mentioning if the user will still have access to their mailboxes and other services.
It’s only mentioning that the data will be held for 30 days. does it mean that they will still have access?
Best Regards,They will, at least to most services, as Microsoft does not enforce licensing requirements for many of them. If the idea is to keep them from accessing stuff, block the account as Oleg_Kovalenko suggested above.
- Hi,
The thing is that we need to create a new tenant for some users in another country.
We transfered some licenses to the new tenant.
But we need the users to have access to the services until we migrate all PSTs...
So if we remove the license users will still have acces to mailboxes, sharepoint...
Best Regards,
Hi.
If you mark user for block login. User can't login after logoff, or after 6-8 hrs, when session will be expired.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_o365admin/remove-license-for-mailbox-on-litigation-hold/5e21219d-c653-478f-8855-117422e4fb16
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4040138/litigation-hold-user-can-still-access-mailbox-after-license-removed-in
- No, they shouldn’t have access! It can take some time the user still have access to services the users logged in to! You can also force a logout from the portal , and also block the user from signing in!
The office suite will be active til next license checking cycle will run
