When licensing Office 365 users with Windows PowerShell, you’ll potentially have a requirement to disable one or more options that comes with a particular license. For example, if a third-party email provider is in use, you may need to disable Exchange Online. This is easy in the GUI, but challenging in PowerShell.
You’ll use New-MsolLicenseOptions
to create a LicenseOptions object that has all the components of your licence
configured, then apply that object to the users in question. The command looks
like this to assign an E3 license and disable Exchange Online:
New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK -DisabledPlans "EXCHANGE_S_ENTERPRISE"
That’s all well and good, but how do you know it’s ENTERPRISEPACK and
EXCHANGE_S_ENTERPRISE? These are the internal identifiers for the E3 license
and the Exchange Online service plan within the E3 license. They’re challenging
(impossible?) to uncover in the GUI, but I’ve written a simple script to
allow an administrator to retrieve the licenses and service plans in their
tenant. This should be run from the Microsoft Online Service PowerShell.
foreach ($sku in (Get-MsolAccountSku) ) {
foreach ($sp in $sku.ServiceStatus) {
New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{"AccountSkuId"=$sku.AccountSkuId;"ServicePlan"=$sp.ServicePlan.ServiceName}
}
}
This will output something like the following:
ServicePlan AccountSkuId
----------- ------------
BPOS_S_TODO_2 contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
FORMS_PLAN_E3 contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
STREAM_O365_E3 contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
Deskless contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
FLOW_O365_P2 contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
POWERAPPS_O365_P2 contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
TEAMS1 contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
PROJECTWORKMANAGEMENT contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
SWAY contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
INTUNE_O365 contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
YAMMER_ENTERPRISE contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
RMS_S_ENTERPRISE contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
OFFICESUBSCRIPTION contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
MCOSTANDARD contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
SHAREPOINTWAC contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
SHAREPOINTENTERPRISE contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
EXCHANGE_S_ENTERPRISE contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK
BPOS_S_TODO_FIRSTLINE contoso:DESKLESSPACK
FORMS_PLAN_K contoso:DESKLESSPACK
STREAM_O365_K contoso:DESKLESSPACK
FLOW_O365_S1 contoso:DESKLESSPACK
POWERAPPS_O365_S1 contoso:DESKLESSPACK
TEAMS1 contoso:DESKLESSPACK
Deskless contoso:DESKLESSPACK
MCOIMP contoso:DESKLESSPACK
SHAREPOINTWAC contoso:DESKLESSPACK
SWAY contoso:DESKLESSPACK
INTUNE_O365 contoso:DESKLESSPACK
YAMMER_ENTERPRISE contoso:DESKLESSPACK
SHAREPOINTDESKLESS contoso:DESKLESSPACK
EXCHANGE_S_DESKLESS contoso:DESKLESSPACK
Here, ENTERPRISEPACK maps to an E3 license, and DESKLESSPACK maps to an F1 (formerly K1) license. As for what each service inside means? Well..you’re on your own on that. They’re often named somewhat sensibly (YAMMER_ENTERPRISE) and sometimes less so (Deskless).
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