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MVP

Oct 13, 2017

Disabling SharePoint Online Plan with PowerShell failing

We noticed, that some days ago disabling SharePoint Online Plan with PowerShell will always fail for some customers tenants. We go standard scripts like in Disable access to services with Office 365 ...

MVP

Oct 13, 2017

Do you get any error messages?

Kazzan
MVP
Oct 13, 2017
Hello Pieter, when we create licence options object (variable) where Disabled Plans is an option for SharePoint and then run Set-MsolUserLicense we just get a generic error "Set-MsolUserLicense: Unable to assign this license.". When we create the same with different plans except for SharePoint, it works fine.
- Pieter Veenstra
  MVP
  Oct 13, 2017
  Have you tried this: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b90503d6-fc2a-4bab-b4e6-d6e296a4d691/error-when-applying-specific-office-365-licenses-to-specific-users?forum=windowsazureaditpro
  - Kazzan
    MVP
    Oct 17, 2017
    Yes, this is not the case. The same script does not fail in other tenants. Only in some. We temporary make the changes from Office 365 Admin Center with the bulk edit.