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

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…..