Comments on: Microsoft 365 Admin Center to Take Over License Assignments

By: David

David — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:42:06 +0000

I don’t see any way to see the assignment paths in the m365 admin panel like we can see in the azure portal. That’s a huge oversight.

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:16:21 +0000

In reply to hollandsmountain. Add to group is a Graph API request and will be unaffected by the change. The access requiring MFA is to the Azure sites, Azure PowerShell module, and Azure CLI, not Graph APIs.

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:14:53 +0000

In reply to Nick. Yes.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:44:50 +0000

Hello, Tony.
And what will happen to the current groups with licenses? Will they continue to work?

By: hollandsmountain

hollandsmountain — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:18:54 +0000

In reply to Tony Redmond.

Still chewing on this one, since I have a Power Automate flow that uses the ‘Add user to group’ Entra ID action. Will that keep working after September 1st I wonder? Does this use cover the Microsoft Graph (wording explicitly only includes Microsoft Graph and PowerShell, not API in general) access as stated in the Entra ID portal by Microsoft:
‘This page is changing: Starting on September 01, 2024, license assignment will only be available in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. You will still be able to view assigned licenses on these pages. If you manage
license assignment using Microsoft Graph or PowerShell, this change will not impact you.’
Appreciate your thoughts about this.

By: TwinTonyz

TwinTonyz — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 19:19:18 +0000

In reply to Leon. This is an absurd change given the lack of a reprocess option and the dysfunctionality of their Admin center UI. Waiting 5-10 seconds for a view search to populate or execute bleeds time, and we've been sitting around for 10 minutes waiting for office to inform itself that a license was assigned. So I guess we'll have to build functional UI's in PowerShell until they go and deprecate anything built there. Astonishingly short-sited as per normal for everything MC these days.

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:41:29 +0000

In reply to Alessandro Appiani. There are going to be feature gaps during the transition - I think that's a safe prediction. However, the idea of bringing license management into a single place seems like a good idea.Execution of that idea is what Microsoft will be judged on.

By: Alessandro Appiani

Alessandro Appiani — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:39:30 +0000

Hi Tony, usually I strongly agree with your post, but not on this one :). The main usage of group based licensing in my opinion stay in the name itself: enable an Admin to assign a set of licences, more skus, to a group of users, defining actually a “Profile”, a set of features. Where I can find this core feature in M365 Admin?

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:25:48 +0000

seems like a constant Tug of war between different portals , hoping the M365 portal has the re-process option as well

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:49:44 +0000

In reply to Lennard. Nope. It moves to the Microsoft 365 admin center.

By: Lennard

Lennard — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:24:15 +0000

I guess the ability to assign locenses based on group membership in Entra ID staus in place?

By: khuizer

khuizer — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:20:58 +0000

Well, we just starting implementing some Administrative Units in the Entra ID, and wanted to make it possible to let some (non tenant-wide) admins to assign licenses to a group for example, but seeing that the Admin Center doesn’t really do much with Administrative Unit it looks like we can forget about this now…..