HOW TO: Provision O365 licenses with granulated services to MSOL (o365) users

I experienced the issue within windows PowerShell ISE when providing a license then explicitly disabling some of the cloud services by disabling the service plans, which are associated to the user and that persons O365 licence.
June 27, 2015
O365Powershell

Pre-requisite: Creating the user

In order to disable selective cloud services for a particular user, you MUST first ensure that the license is first assigned to that user. To do this, you must first have a user present then you need to execute the Set-MsolUserLicense command.

Once the user has an O365 license, you can then disable the services associated to that user by referencing the AccountSkuId (the type of O365 package/license) (just fyi, i'm using the 'STANDARDOFFPACK_FACULTY' AccountSkuId)

But you must first have a user to provide a license to. A full demonstration on how to perform this can be located within an earlier post, HOW TO: Connect to O365 and add a user via powershell terminal


Add license service plan to O365

The direct approach isn't necessary possible. You in fact must provide a license license (which provides you the services associated to that license, then you disable the services you don't want to provide to the user. You can't just provide a single service New-MsolLicenseOptions cmdlet.

The New-MsolLicenseOptions cmdlet allows you to create new license options, or in our case, allows you to explicitly disable specific service plans.

Even though 'Set-MsolUserLicense' and 'New-MsolLicenseOptions' are separate commands, you can concatenate them to perform a single command. HOWEVER this is possible by setting the 'New-MsolLicenseOptions' as a variable, then passing that variable as a parameter


Example

Once you've done that, you can then begin disabling the services associated to the user Assuming no errors have popped up, you can then perform the following command to see the current service plans


Known issue: Set-MsolUserLicense : Unable to assign this license

When executing the New-MsolLicenseOptions cmdlet, you may come across the following error when disabling SharePoint as an O365 service. This is because you're probably trying to disable either the SHAREPOINTSTANDARD_EDU or SHAREPOINTWAC_EDU service plan. To must however ensure you're disabling both O365 service plans simultaneously. So if you're using the following example above, instead of including just '-DisabledPlans SHAREPOINTSTANDARD_EDU', ensure you are passing both service plans. For example, '-DisabledPlans SHAREPOINTSTANDARD_EDU, SHAREPOINTWAC_EDU'

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