Mastering Office 365 Administration

Adjusting the user's licenses

For a single user, the Product licenses section will display a brief summary of their assigned plans. This is useful mainly in cases where the user has only a few licenses assigned, since the list will be truncated after it reaches four or five items. Clicking the edit link to the right of this section will bring up a dialog that is very much like the one used when creating a new user. You can unassign licenses currently allocated to the user, or assign new ones. While you can often do both in a single step, there are cases where the license assignments will have dependencies or other requirements that will force you to perform the reassignment in multiple steps. For these cases, PowerShell is often a better ...