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All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared default configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command. Warning : Licenses for a Fabric Interconnect of one generation can be transferred between other Fabric Interconnects in the same generation, but not between different generations. Fabric Interconnects contain a number of pre-installed licenses dependent on model and whether an expansion model is installed.

The image below outlines the number of pre-installed licenses that are available for use on each device. These additional licenses can be used either on base ports of the Fabric Interconnect or the installed expansion module.

Warning : Removing the expansion module from the base unit will remove the licenses from that Fabric Interconnec t. For each port configured in excess of the pre-installed port license count, an additional license must be purchased. The default quantity also known as Right To Use or Paper License is the number of pre-installed licenses that comes with the hardware. Note : UCSM releases prior to 2. The used quantity is the number of licenses currently being used by a configured port.

In the image above, there is 1 more port in use than the absolute quantity and the system has been in grace-period for seconds or approximately 37 hours. The grace period timer does not reset when the appropriate amount of licenses are added. Licenses are only assigned to configured ports. When a port is unconfigured, its license returns to the license pool.

After the grace period ends currently days and the feature is still in grace period state:. Note : Forwarding of data traffic will not be impacted when the grace period expires. All configured Ethernet ports will consume licenses. This is regardless of whether the port is connected and has an active link or not. To release unneccessarily consumed licenses, unused Ethernet ports should be unconfigured.

See the below guide for details. All FC ports that are not shutdown will consume licenses. To release unneccessarily consumed licenses, unused FC ports should be shut down. Note : Unconfiguring or disabling a port will interrupt all traffic using this port. You could login to AzureAD, navigate to the group and hit the reprocess button manually if you needed it done quickly.

This is a great feature… that is tied to an extremely overpriced Office Add-on. License management should be included for the crazy amount of money that E3 licenses add up to. When I think I have all the groups done I want to pull the list of users and see their assignment paths to make sure there are no direct only users left.

I cant find a way to export the list of users including assignment path. We have 80k accounts so trying to scroll through the gui is not an option. Do you know a way to do this? I was also hoping that you could select the group and click remove license and it would only remove the direct one like it says it will however it appears to remove the group instead.

This is indeed a very good process. However I would like to know what might happen in below situation 1. We create a group. We assign licenses to the group accordingly 2. Once we assign licenses, we no longer need this group. Hence, we delete the group. They would lose their licenses. The group is associated with the licenses, and the licenses are applied to the members. If you delete the group, you could run into problems. I am looking at it from a synced group perspective.

If you have a group that was deleted, and if you have licenses associated with it, it will have trouble deleting in AzureAD.

The best way to delete a group associated with licenses is to remove the license association with the group in AzureAD, then let a sync go through, then you can delete the group on prem. The next sync would then delete the group in AzureAD. Does this take up an actual license in the portal? Will O automatically do something with this license? Q2: If a user has both direct licenses and group assigned licenses..

Better yet for Q2: Do I need to remove the direct licenses? And just make it so that all new users added from here on out are provisioned automatically? I want to ask if the group based license management can also be done in powershell? Is there a way to get an email alert when there is an issue with assigning licenses using this method? Is there any way to get alerted on this via email alert?

So it would just be a matter of taking that output and creating email messages via PowerShell to alert you to any results that you want to be alerted to.

Hey there Paul, thank you very much for posting this. Following along with your instructions I am trying to locate the Tenant Admin account. I am not able to locate the tenant admin account, I have Global Admin role added to my separate admin account but I am unable to change the options here.

Would we need to use the billing administrator account for this, or do we use the actual account used to configure the tenancy. Now is there a way to powershell remove any direct licensed objects without having to go through all 20 panels of the gui? I keep clicking a bunch of them, only to click the wrong spot and have all my selections disappear. A Group is an Office collaborative feature. A group is a security group similar to what we have in on-prem AD, and can be used to assign security permissions.

Paul, thank you for your reply. When I do this, I have a Group. This G g roup has the same functionalities as a Group made in the O portal. A group made in Azure will be only a security group. In our environment we assign licenses using groups I would like to log the changes done to Licensing groups Is there any possibility to do it.

Our licensing is limited, and we have put together some procedures to utilize dynamic groups in Azure AD to take care of those. We recently obtained the license for Exchange Online for Alumni — this gives former students inactive for 1 year lifetime access to their email but not the Office suite.

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