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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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MICHELLE SEIPEL
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Apr 03, 2017
As it relates to Education, I know that we just purchased an EES agreement, and in so doing we were able to add the SKU 965-00002 for Azure Basic (AADB) for $0 to get this...but this does require an active EES agreement to add AADB for free. I just got this and it hasn't been applied to my portal yet, but I've been assured by Microsoft that is all you need to switch from user-based processing using Azure powershell scripts to using groups in Azure.
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BrjannBrekkan
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Apr 04, 2017

Nasos_Kladakis Should help explain what the intentions are around availbility of Group Based License management with regards to version of Azure AD.

 

Brjann Brekkan

- Azure AD Program Manager

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