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Azure AD group-based license management for Office 365 and more
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
So this is super exciting, tested it out, works amazingly.
Two questions:
(1) Even though it is considered "public preview", any reason that we should not consider taking advantage of this immediately?(2) What is the best way to bulk remove "direct" licenses from users? Just use PowerShell, or is there something new in the UI I have overlooked.
Scratch question 2, Adam Fowler's link covers it perfectly!
- Nasos_Kladakis
Microsoft
Brent
Public preview means a number of things. But most of all means no SLA.
I really want to tell you to go and use it because it seems to work perfectly :) However this is what public preview is all about:
Test the feature, get feedback from as many users as possible and then call it Generally available.
Nasos
This went down very well at a SharePoint Saturday demo I did in Munich last week. People are clamouring for this and it might stop people using Okta and similar third parties!
If anyone wants to see it in action, I put together a short video showing it in use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih0XN0eRWwA
- DaniMartMSGreat video, Paul!
