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Remove license for users
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
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,Now, that's a bit of a different story. While it technically might work, if you are using the service without license you will be violating the license agreement. I believe it should be fine if you are just doing so in the 30 days "grace" period, but no one here is qualified to interpret the licensing terms on behalf of Microsoft. So best contact your TAM or open a support case.
- I do believe mail will be unavailable after some time though! But of course if making sure the user can’t access services asap, block login is the way to go
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
