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Eric Adler's avatar
Eric Adler
Steel Contributor
Feb 01, 2017

PowerShell to update License features

Looking for a way to update the features for our E3 licensed users. Setting them initially is no problem but we have not found a way to update someone that already has an E3.

 

So user A has an E3 but only  the "SharePoint Online" feature on and we need 5 other features enabled.

 

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

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  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Feb 18, 2017

    I'm not sure if you managed to solve this, but I wrote a couple powershell functions that might help. I wasn't having a good time trying to re-assign licenses to users as we don't enable all features of a license. I found it easier to just remove all the licenses and re-assign them. that way I knew exactly which licenses they had. 

     

    The first is a function to clear the license for the user and the second function clears the licenses and then assigns the specific licenses, with the options that we chose. I hope it helps!

     

    # Removes all O365 Licenses
    # Accepts UPN
    # Returns Nothing
    function Remove-O365Licenses ($upn)
    {
    # Get user info from O365
    $userInfo = Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $upn

    # Clear any existing licenses
    if ($userInfo.isLicensed -eq $true)
    {
    foreach ($sku in ($userInfo | select -ExpandProperty licenses))
    {
    #Write-Host "Removing License: " $sku.AccountSkuId
    Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $upn -RemoveLicenses $sku.AccountSkuId
    }
    }
    }

     

    # Clears previous license and sets correct Office 365 Staff license
    # Accepts UPN
    # Returns nothing
    function Set-O365StaffLicense ($upn)
    {
    # Set SKU options for staff
    $O365SkuStaff1 = New-MSOLLicenseOptions -AccountSkuID "lethsd51:PROJECTONLINE_PLAN_1_FACULTY" -DisabledPlans SHAREPOINTWAC_EDU
    $O365SkuStaff2 = New-MSOLLicenseOptions -AccountSkuID "lethsd51:STANDARDWOFFPACK_FACULTY" -DisabledPlans EXCHANGE_S_STANDARD,SHAREPOINTSTANDARD_EDU
    $O365SkuStaff3 = New-MSOLLicenseOptions -AccountSkuID "lethsd51:OFFICESUBSCRIPTION_FACULTY" -DisabledPlans SWAY,SHAREPOINTWAC_EDU

    # Get user info from O365
    $userInfo = Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $upn

    Write-Host "Processing $upn"
    # Set usage location
    if ($userInfo.UsageLocation -eq $null)
    {
    Set-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $upn -UsageLocation CA
    }

    # Remove All Current Licenses
    Remove-O365Licenses ($upn)

    # Apply licenses. The order of these matter!
    Write-Host "Setting License: Project Online for Faculty"
    Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $upn -AddLicenses lethsd51:PROJECTONLINE_PLAN_1_FACULTY -LicenseOptions $O365SkuStaff1
    Write-Host "Setting License: Office 365 Education for Faculty"
    Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $upn -AddLicenses lethsd51:STANDARDWOFFPACK_FACULTY -LicenseOptions $O365SkuStaff2
    Write-Host "Setting License: Office 365 ProPlus for Faculty"
    Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $upn -AddLicenses lethsd51:OFFICESUBSCRIPTION_FACULTY -LicenseOptions $O365SkuStaff3
    Write-Host "Setting License: Exchange Online Plan 2 for Faculty"
    Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $upn -AddLicenses lethsd51:EXCHANGEENTERPRISE_FACULTY
    }

     

     

     

  • Zoltan Bagyon's avatar
    Zoltan Bagyon
    Steel Contributor
    Feb 01, 2017

    There are several articles available on this topic, maybe the most thorough and comprehensive I've seen is this. 

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