o365 remove licenses not inherited

Question

Is there a script to remove all O365 licenses except the ones that are inherited? Currently the automation is working, it's removing the licenses (except the ones that are inherited) but it comes back with an "error" "user license is inherited and cannot be removed". If that is not possible, is it possible to remove the error from the task report? tx

Comments

Thank you, AI gave this option. But I'm not sure if it would work, if it's acceptable and secure: (using a script to remove all non-inherited licenses)

# Get the user
$user = $Context.BindToObject($Context.TargetObject.AdsPath)

**# Get all assigned licenses
$licenses = $user.GetLicenses()

foreach ($license in $licenses) {
    # Check if the license is inherited from a group
    if ($license.AssignedInGroup -eq $null) {
        # License is NOT inherited (directly assigned), remove it
        $user.RemoveLicense($license.SkuId)
    }
}**

You are correct, this is during user disablement. We know inherited licenses will be removed as they are group assigned, we want to remove "all" non inherited licenses, but the list is not know in advance. Simply to not get an error during the processing.

tx Andras

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Hello Andras,

Unfortunately, that is another example where AI references a functionality that simply does not exist. There is no possibility in Adaxes to check whether a Microsoft 365 license is assigned directly or based on group membership. The AssignedInGroup property does not exist. It can only be done by directly connecting to Microsoft 365. Moreover, methods GetLicenses and RemoveLicense do not exist in Adaxes.

Answer 1

Hello,

Do we understand correctly that you mean the Microsoft 365 licenses that are assigned automatically based on group membership? If that is correct, there is no built-in functionality to skip such licenses or suppress the corresponding errors. As a workaround, you can use the Modify properties option of the Activate or modify Microsoft 365 account action. In this case, you can explicitly specify the licenses to be revoked.