Managing Office 365 users’ license is an occasional or may be a one-time task, but we can’t always use the Global Admin account to administer license. In a large environment with thousands of users, we may need to assign a dedicated person to manage users’ license.
Earlier you should have either a Global administrator or a User management administrator role to update users license, but now Office 365 introduced a new admin role License administrator.
With anyone of the below Admin role, users can add, update and remove the user’s license subscription or individual service plans:
- License administrator
- User management administrator
- Global administrator
With any one of the above role, you can manage license in the following three ways:
- Office 365 Admin center : Assign licenses from Admin Portal
- PowerShell (Set-MsolUserLicense) : Manage license using Powershell
- Microsoft Graph Api : Add or remove licenses using Graph Api
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