10-17-2018 02:33 PM
Hi,
I cross-posted this question to Twitter for responses as well. Global Admin getting this "access denied" doesn't make much sense to me, looking for additional responses. As I mentioned, this is with my Global Admin account and it is not licensed, and in many real-life use cases, these privileged accounts do not get licensed while handling administrative duties as in SPO/ODFB/Exchange etc.
https://twitter.com/alisalih/status/1052646355154464768?s=20
10-18-2018 12:12 AM
I know there were some issues they upgraded the powershell module to 0.95 so be aware you have the latest Powershell module.
10-18-2018 12:15 AM
Works just fine here with unlicensed GA account.
10-18-2018 02:05 AM
10-18-2018 02:09 AM - edited 10-18-2018 11:31 AM
@Vasil Michev That's quite interesting, can you make sure you don't have a license on the GA account for me? The reason I ask you to do that is; The program manager has confirmed the behavior and asked me to enter a uservoice entry for it, which I did.
10-18-2018 10:52 AM
Well I might be getting old, but I'm not blind yet :)
Let me check directly with the powers that be.
10-18-2018 11:06 AM
@Vasil Michev replying here as well since I'm also the person on twitter. Requiring a license is an API requirement so this is technically by design - we should have been enforcing it via PowerShell as well. There are two things that are happening in motion:
1. Evaluating whether we should remove this restriction for admins due to the great feedback here and in other forums
2. Investigating the inconsistent enforcement that you described here.
10-18-2018 11:13 AM
Right, thanks :) I can tell you that a license requirement will not go well with any large organization, with very few exceptions all admin functionalities across M365 do not require license. Should you decide to enforce such requirement, please make sure to communicate this well in advance!
10-18-2018 11:30 AM
+1 on what Vasil mentioned.
@Isabella Lubin - After Vasil's note that his GA account without a license can run the cmdlet, I double checked everything.
If needed, I can provide a Correlation ID as well to help troubleshoot the discrepancy. Just let me know.
Thanks @Isabella Lubin and Thanks @Vasil Michev
12-01-2018 06:15 PM
Solution