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Cian Allner
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Feb 22, 2017
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Azure AD group-based license management for Office 365 and more

This looks awesome - simplify licence management for Office 365, EMS, Dynamics 365 and more with the https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/02/22/announcing-the-public-preview-of...
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  • Nasos_Kladakis's avatar
    Nasos_Kladakis
    Apr 05, 2017

    Group-based licensing will be a feature of all the paid Azure AD editions. (And it is included now during the public preview period)

    That means Azure AD Basic, Azure AD Premium P1 and P2 and of course EMS E3 and E5 that includes Azure AD Premium.

    Also will be a feature of Office 365 E3 and Office 365 E5 when it becomes generally avaialble.

     

    Now, for EDU organizations things are rather simple becasue Azure AD Basic is free for them so by adding the free Azure AD Basic edition to their tenant they can use Group-Based Licensing for all the related products.

     

    I hope this helps

     

    Nasos

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Deleted
Jun 11, 2018

We found that the “Azure AD group-based license management” (in public preview) is not currently smart enough to recognize a single user license between E3 and E5. It “double dips”, so a user who has an E5 license (direct or inherited) and an E3 license (direct or inherited) takes up two license; one E3 and one E5. This scenario did not create any warning or alert from the system. Is there a UserVoice style area to communicate with folks evaluating what will be GA?

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Max Fritz
Iron Contributor
Jun 12, 2018

Deleted, here's where you could add in to Azure AD ideas on UserVoice: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/169401-azure-active-directory

 

There's some Group Based Licensing requests in there already.

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