How to Use the Graph SDK to Manage Group-Based Licensing
Group-based licensing is a mechanism to make it easier to assign and mange product licenses for large sets of user accounts. In this article, we discuss how to use Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets to manage group-based license assignments in a Microsoft 365 tenant. Assigning licenses to groups is very much like direct assignments, but some differences exist. https://office365itpros.com/2024/11/04/group-based-licensing-sdk/How to Restore the Service Plan for a Microsoft 365 Product License
Many articles describe how to disable a service plan for a product license assigned to a Microsoft 365 account, but few cover how to enable service plans should the need arise afterward. This article covers the basics of disabling and enabling service plans for Microsoft 365 licenses using PowerShell, including the very important step of finding existing disabled plans. Everything’s easy once you know how. https://office365itpros.com/2024/10/29/enable-service-plan/Including Costs in a Microsoft 365 Licensing Report
This article describes how to include user license costs in a Microsoft 365 tenant licensing report created with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. The report includes annual costs for all licenses assigned to each user plus an overall licensing summary for the tenant. It even reports how effective the tenant is at assigning licenses! https://practical365.com/report-user-license-costs/
Licensing for Office365 calls via Graph API
Hello, I have a licensing question regarding the use of Excel from Office365 in our application via Graph API. Our organization is building a web application for businesses, which will be used by their employees. Users will upload .xlsx files, and our application, using Graph API with app-only access, will place the files in our organization's SharePoint Site and read calculated values from some Excel worksheet cells (again, via Graph API). Are there any legal limitations or requirements in terms of licensing? As an organization, we have the following licenses: Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 Microsoft 365 Apps for Business Microsoft 365 Business Premium Microsoft Fabric (Free) Thank you!
E2 365 for Non profits has expired - how to change to/ purchase E1
Our organization E2 will be expired on 22 August, and we have received notification fromemail address removed for privacy reasonsthat they would reach out to us within 1 week after we had contact them. But till now we haven't got any news from them. So what we should do now? Thank you for your help.Self-Service Purchase Notifications for Tenant Administrators
I dislike the Microsoft 365 self-service purchase mechanism and disable it in any tenant where I can. Global and Billing administrators for tenants that allow self-service purchases will soon receive notifications when self-service purchases occur to allow them to take action to allow, cancel, or change the purchased subscription. Or they can do what I do and avoid the problem in the first place by prohibiting self-service purchases. https://office365itpros.com/2024/07/19/self-service-purchases-notification/Version 1.9 of the Microsoft 365 Licensing Report
The Microsoft 365 Licensing Report is a popular PowerShell script that’s just been updated to V1.9 with a bunch of changes to highlight different aspects such as license costs for disabled user accounts and inactive user accounts. Copious use of some very dubious color choices makes the HTML report created by the script look very nice (if you’re color blind) and the new version can generate an Excel worksheet. https://office365itpros.com/2024/06/20/microsoft-365-licensing-report-19/
