Those who have been working with Microsoft 365 SaaS products will be familiar with the MSOnline PowerShell modules that were deprecated as of March 30, 2024. One of the cmdlets I frequently used were the Get-MsolUser and Set-MsolUserLicense for assigning Microsoft 365 licenses when working with an organization with a large amount of users. With the retirement of the legacy cmdlet, I wanted to share a script I had created a while back that demonstrates how we can use Microsoft Graph’s Get-MgUser (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.graph.users/get-mguser?view=graph-powershell-1.0) and Set-MgUserLicense (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.graph.users.actions/set-mguserlicense?view=graph-powershell-1.0) PowerShell cmdlets to generate reports of licenses and assign licenses.
The following GitHub repo PowerShell script provides the samples listed below: https://github.com/terenceluk/Microsoft-365/blob/main/Administration/Assign-M365-Licenses.ps1
- Generate a Microsoft 365 license report with GUI and console text. Use this to retrieve the skuID required for assigning licenses
- Get all users with a assigned E5 license SKU
- Swap out users assigned with an expired Microsoft 365 E5 with a valid E5
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Retrieve all the users who have a Microsoft 365 E5 license assigned and assign them with a Copilot license
