Assigning License to users via AZURE

[Simcfc73]

Evening All,

 

Just spent the past few hours messing with AZURE AD and got it syncing, very nice. Is the only way to assign licenses to users in O365 with a PS script? I have just got the codes through for the free staff O365 licenses so want to use assign the staff licenses. Be nice if I could use a attribute in AD which syncs to O365

 

Night night, up in 5hours 21 minutes

[Liam]

I use salamander ad. Give it a Google. Awesome pal

[rpwillis]

Only way to assign licenses, apart from manually, is via PowerShell or a 3rd party tool.

[EduTech]

Today, you can only do this using PowerShell or 3rd Party Tools as Richard has pointed out. We have a ton of feedback around this area and we are working on ways to help improve this going forward and possible automate this process. It's a work in-progress, and quite complex due to the fact you can assign a license, and then choose with-in that what the 'user' can have in terms of 'services'... can't give you any deadlines but keep your eyes out on the Office Blog for further updates and also keep an eye out on this article: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn621141.aspx

 

James.

[Simcfc73]

Decided to download and play with ManageEngine ADManager Plus and it does the license stuff amazingly easy, please M$ create a tool to do this where I don't need to code.

 

Managed to assign licenses (including sub licenses) to 600+users with different settings in about 1 minute.

 

Need to play with the other goodies in the software to see if its worth the $500