As an Administrator, effectively managing Office 365 license is an important task to save costs and control unused licenses. We can get some insights from license and usage reports that are available in Office 365 Admin center. Admins can use PowerShell commands for enhanced reports and management.
Specmasoft’s Office 365 Manager is a reporting and management tool that helps you to get a clear picture of Microsoft 365 license usage and assignments. You can plan and assign a required license for new employees, freeing up Office 365 licenses when employees leave the organization, and reassigning the freed-up licenses to others. You can also view and manage the licenses that are applied through groups.
The app provides a user-friendly UI to manage licenses for individual and bulk users with just a few clicks.
Assign new Office 365 license
This app lets you set a new Office 365 license (ex: Microsoft E3, E5) for new employees. You can also assign a new license for bulk users without affecting existing license assignments. Read more »
Replace existing license
In some cases, you may need to the remove existing license and set a new license without affecting any licensed features. For example, you can remove Microsoft E3 license and assign Microsoft E5 in a single action. Read more »
Remove assigned license
After making the decision that a license is unnecessary for a particular user, you can revoke the license from that individual user. Furthermore, you have the capability to remove licenses from a group of Office 365 users in bulk. Read more »
Add or Remove license apps
Apart from managing licenses, you can also update individual license components. For example, you can assign E3 license, but disable Exchange service in the E3 license. Like that, you can assign E5 license and enable only Teams service for a set of users.
Bulk License Management
You can run all the above license management actions for bulk users either by selecting multiple users from the report grid or import users from a CSV file. Read more »
Update Group license
The app helps you to find licensed groups and their members to manage group-based license.You can easily track users with the same license is assigned through a group and assigned directly to the user. Read more »
