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PowerShell for Microsoft 365 Notes

Chapter 3.1 - Managing Licenses

Licenses

  • Get-MgUserLicenseDetail
    • Get the license information of user Get-MgUserLicenseDetail -UserId $user.Id
  • Counts how many users have each license assigned
$user = Get-MgUser -All
$userLic = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
foreach($user in $users)
{
foreach ($lic in ((Get-MgUserLicenseDetail -UserId $user.Id).ServicePlans | Where-Object {$_.ProvisioningStatus -ne "Disabled"} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty ServicePlanName))
{
$userLic.add($lic) | Out-Null
}
}
$userLic | Group-Object | Select-Object Count,Name | Sort-Object -Descending Count
  • Get-MgSubscribedSku
    • SubscribedSku represents the license plan
  • Set-MgUserLicense
    • Assign and Remove Licenses
      • -AddLicenses
      • -RemoveLicenses
$user = Get-MgUser -Filter "DisplayName eq 'Rob Smith'"
$OBE_Sku = Get-MgSubscribedSku -All | Where-Object
SkuPartNumber -eq 'O365_BUSINESS_ESSENTIALS'
Set-MgUserLicense -UserId $user.Id -AddLicenses @{SkuId = $OBE_Sku.SkuId} -RemoveLicenses @()

Conclusion

  • Assigning and remove licenses
  • Retrieving license information