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
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

Chris-Yue

Iron Contributor

Apr 06, 2017

So does this mean all O365 Business related Plans (I am using Business Essentials and Business Premium) will qualify for the use of group based licensing?

Nasos_Kladakis

Microsoft

Apr 06, 2017

Chris as I said it is for Office 365 E3 and E5 only. Of course you can purchase any Azure AD paid offering (Basic, Premium P1 or P2) and you add it in your tenant and then group-based linceinsing feature will be available for any Microsoft online service you have.

Chris-Yue wrote:

So does this mean all O365 Business related Plans (I am using Business Essentials and Business Premium) will qualify for the use of group based licensing?

Chris-Yue
Iron Contributor
Apr 06, 2017
Hi Nasos,

I did see mention of E3 and E5.

Must admit, I assumed my O365 Plans included Azure Basic already but it sounds like it is just the Free version.

Thanks for the clarification.

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