Scripting License Assignment in Office 365 for education
As more and more education institutions take advantage of Office 365 for education’s powerful capabilities a question that comes up is: how can you script license assignment for your staff, students and alumni so that you don’t have to manually go through the process each time you enroll new users?
Thankfully there are a couple of great blog posts that talk about how to go about doing this, and which licenses you need for education.
For quick reference, the plans relevant to education customers are:
Academic Plans (A Plans)
*Microsoft Office 365 Plan A1 is superseded by Plan A2.
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More Reading
You might like to read up on these articles:
- Active Directory Synchronisation with Office 365
- Active Directory Federation
- Windows PowerShell for Single Sign On