Box 1: Connect-MgGraph

Assign Microsoft 365 licenses to user accounts with PowerShell

Use the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK

First, connect to your Microsoft 365 tenant.

Assigning and removing licenses for a user requires the User.ReadWrite.All permission scope or one of the other permissions listed in the ' Assign license ' Microsoft Graph API reference page.

The Organization.Read.All permission scope is required to read the licenses available in the tenant.

Connect-MgGraph -Scopes User.ReadWrite.All, Organization.Read.All

Box 2: Get-MgSubscribedSku

Run the Get-MgSubscribedSku command to view the available licensing plans and the number of available licenses in each plan in your organization. The number of available licenses in each plan is ActiveUnits - WarningUnits - ConsumedUnits.

Box 3: Set-MgUserLicense

Assigning licenses to user accounts

To assign a license to a user, use the following command in PowerShell.

Set-MgUserLicense -UserId $userUPN -AddLicenses @{SkuId = " < SkuId > " } -RemoveLicenses @()

This example assigns a license from the SPE_E5 (Microsoft 365 E5) licensing plan to the unlicensed user belindan@litwareinc.com:

$e5Sku = Get-MgSubscribedSku -All | Where SkuPartNumber -eq ' SPE_E5 '

Set-MgUserLicense -UserId " belindan@litwareinc.com " -AddLicenses @{SkuId = $e5Sku.SkuId} -RemoveLicenses @()