group: assignLicense

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Add or remove licenses on a group. Licenses assigned to the group will be assigned to all users in the group. Group-based licensing is an alternative to direct user licensing. To learn more about group-based licensing, see What is group-based licensing in Microsoft Entra ID.

To get the subscriptions available in the directory, perform a GET subscribedSkus request.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	LicenseAssignment.ReadWrite.All	Directory.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	LicenseAssignment.ReadWrite.All	Directory.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with the microsoft.directory/groups/assignLicense role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation:

• Directory Writers
• Groups Administrator
• License Administrator
• User Administrator

HTTP request

POST /groups/{id}/assignLicense

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
addLicenses	assignedLicense collection	A collection of assignedLicense objects that specify the licenses to add. You can disable servicePlans associated with a license by setting the disabledPlans property on an assignedLicense object.
removeLicenses	Guid collection	A collection of skuIds that identify the licenses to remove. Required. Can be an empty collection.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 202 Accepted response code and a target group object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Add licenses to the group

The following example adds licenses to the group.

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/1132b215-826f-42a9-8cfe-1643d19d17fd/assignLicense
Content-type: application/json

{
  "addLicenses": [
    {
      "disabledPlans": [
        "113feb6c-3fe4-4440-bddc-54d774bf0318",
        "14ab5db5-e6c4-4b20-b4bc-13e36fd2227f"
      ],
      "skuId": "b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"
    },
    {
      "disabledPlans": [
        "a413a9ff-720c-4822-98ef-2f37c2a21f4c"
      ],
      "skuId": "c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df"
    }
  ],
  "removeLicenses": []
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Groups.Item.AssignLicense;
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AssignLicensePostRequestBody
{
	AddLicenses = new List<AssignedLicense>
	{
		new AssignedLicense
		{
			DisabledPlans = new List<Guid?>
			{
				Guid.Parse("113feb6c-3fe4-4440-bddc-54d774bf0318"),
				Guid.Parse("14ab5db5-e6c4-4b20-b4bc-13e36fd2227f"),
			},
			SkuId = Guid.Parse("b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"),
		},
		new AssignedLicense
		{
			DisabledPlans = new List<Guid?>
			{
				Guid.Parse("a413a9ff-720c-4822-98ef-2f37c2a21f4c"),
			},
			SkuId = Guid.Parse("c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df"),
		},
	},
	RemoveLicenses = new List<string>
	{
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].AssignLicense.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc groups assign-license post --group-id {group-id} --body '{\
  "addLicenses": [\
    {\
      "disabledPlans": [\
        "113feb6c-3fe4-4440-bddc-54d774bf0318",\
        "14ab5db5-e6c4-4b20-b4bc-13e36fd2227f"\
      ],\
      "skuId": "b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"\
    },\
    {\
      "disabledPlans": [\
        "a413a9ff-720c-4822-98ef-2f37c2a21f4c"\
      ],\
      "skuId": "c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df"\
    }\
  ],\
  "removeLicenses": []\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphgroups "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/groups"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphgroups.NewAssignLicensePostRequestBody()


assignedLicense := graphmodels.NewAssignedLicense()
disabledPlans := []uuid.UUID {
	uuid.MustParse("113feb6c-3fe4-4440-bddc-54d774bf0318"),
	uuid.MustParse("14ab5db5-e6c4-4b20-b4bc-13e36fd2227f"),
}
assignedLicense.SetDisabledPlans(disabledPlans)
skuId := uuid.MustParse("b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968")
assignedLicense.SetSkuId(&skuId) 
assignedLicense1 := graphmodels.NewAssignedLicense()
disabledPlans := []uuid.UUID {
	uuid.MustParse("a413a9ff-720c-4822-98ef-2f37c2a21f4c"),
}
assignedLicense1.SetDisabledPlans(disabledPlans)
skuId := uuid.MustParse("c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df")
assignedLicense1.SetSkuId(&skuId) 

addLicenses := []graphmodels.AssignedLicenseable {
	assignedLicense,
	assignedLicense1,
}
requestBody.SetAddLicenses(addLicenses)
removeLicenses := []string {

}
requestBody.SetRemoveLicenses(removeLicenses)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
assignLicense, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").AssignLicense().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.groups.item.assignlicense.AssignLicensePostRequestBody assignLicensePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.groups.item.assignlicense.AssignLicensePostRequestBody();
LinkedList<AssignedLicense> addLicenses = new LinkedList<AssignedLicense>();
AssignedLicense assignedLicense = new AssignedLicense();
LinkedList<UUID> disabledPlans = new LinkedList<UUID>();
disabledPlans.add(UUID.fromString("113feb6c-3fe4-4440-bddc-54d774bf0318"));
disabledPlans.add(UUID.fromString("14ab5db5-e6c4-4b20-b4bc-13e36fd2227f"));
assignedLicense.setDisabledPlans(disabledPlans);
assignedLicense.setSkuId(UUID.fromString("b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"));
addLicenses.add(assignedLicense);
AssignedLicense assignedLicense1 = new AssignedLicense();
LinkedList<UUID> disabledPlans1 = new LinkedList<UUID>();
disabledPlans1.add(UUID.fromString("a413a9ff-720c-4822-98ef-2f37c2a21f4c"));
assignedLicense1.setDisabledPlans(disabledPlans1);
assignedLicense1.setSkuId(UUID.fromString("c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df"));
addLicenses.add(assignedLicense1);
assignLicensePostRequestBody.setAddLicenses(addLicenses);
LinkedList<String> removeLicenses = new LinkedList<String>();
assignLicensePostRequestBody.setRemoveLicenses(removeLicenses);
var result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").assignLicense().post(assignLicensePostRequestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const group = {
  addLicenses: [
    {
      disabledPlans: [
        '113feb6c-3fe4-4440-bddc-54d774bf0318',
        '14ab5db5-e6c4-4b20-b4bc-13e36fd2227f'
      ],
      skuId: 'b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968'
    },
    {
      disabledPlans: [
        'a413a9ff-720c-4822-98ef-2f37c2a21f4c'
      ],
      skuId: 'c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df'
    }
  ],
  removeLicenses: []
};

await client.api('/groups/1132b215-826f-42a9-8cfe-1643d19d17fd/assignLicense')
	.post(group);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Groups\Item\AssignLicense\AssignLicensePostRequestBody;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AssignedLicense;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new AssignLicensePostRequestBody();
$addLicensesAssignedLicense1 = new AssignedLicense();
$addLicensesAssignedLicense1->setDisabledPlans(['113feb6c-3fe4-4440-bddc-54d774bf0318', '14ab5db5-e6c4-4b20-b4bc-13e36fd2227f', 	]);
$addLicensesAssignedLicense1->setSkuId('b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968');
$addLicensesArray []= $addLicensesAssignedLicense1;
$addLicensesAssignedLicense2 = new AssignedLicense();
$addLicensesAssignedLicense2->setDisabledPlans(['a413a9ff-720c-4822-98ef-2f37c2a21f4c', 	]);
$addLicensesAssignedLicense2->setSkuId('c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df');
$addLicensesArray []= $addLicensesAssignedLicense2;
$requestBody->setAddLicenses($addLicensesArray);

$requestBody->setRemoveLicenses([]);

$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->assignLicense()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Groups

$params = @{
	addLicenses = @(
		@{
			disabledPlans = @(
			"113feb6c-3fe4-4440-bddc-54d774bf0318"
		"14ab5db5-e6c4-4b20-b4bc-13e36fd2227f"
	)
	skuId = "b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"
}
@{
	disabledPlans = @(
	"a413a9ff-720c-4822-98ef-2f37c2a21f4c"
)
skuId = "c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df"
}
)
removeLicenses = @(
)
}

Set-MgGroupLicense -GroupId $groupId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.groups.item.assign_license.assign_license_post_request_body import AssignLicensePostRequestBody
from msgraph.generated.models.assigned_license import AssignedLicense
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AssignLicensePostRequestBody(
	add_licenses = [
		AssignedLicense(
			disabled_plans = [
				UUID("113feb6c-3fe4-4440-bddc-54d774bf0318"),
				UUID("14ab5db5-e6c4-4b20-b4bc-13e36fd2227f"),
			],
			sku_id = UUID("b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"),
		),
		AssignedLicense(
			disabled_plans = [
				UUID("a413a9ff-720c-4822-98ef-2f37c2a21f4c"),
			],
			sku_id = UUID("c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df"),
		),
	],
	remove_licenses = [
	],
)

result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').assign_license.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The response is the updated group object.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Content-type: application/json
location: https://graph.microsoft.com/v2/e8e96c2a-d787-4eb1-98d7-9e57c965f1de/directoryObjects/1132b215-826f-42a9-8cfe-1643d19d17fd/Microsoft.DirectoryServices.Group

{
  "id": "1132b215-826f-42a9-8cfe-1643d19d17fd",
  "createdDateTime": "2021-03-12T11:15:03Z",
  "groupTypes": [],
  "securityEnabled": true
}

Example 2: Remove licenses from the group

The following example removes licenses from the group.

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/1132b215-826f-42a9-8cfe-1643d19d17fd/assignLicense
Content-type: application/json

{
  "addLicenses": [],
  "removeLicenses": [
    "c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df",
    "b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"
  ]
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Groups.Item.AssignLicense;
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AssignLicensePostRequestBody
{
	AddLicenses = new List<AssignedLicense>
	{
	},
	RemoveLicenses = new List<Guid?>
	{
		Guid.Parse("c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df"),
		Guid.Parse("b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"),
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Groups["{group-id}"].AssignLicense.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc groups assign-license post --group-id {group-id} --body '{\
  "addLicenses": [],\
  "removeLicenses": [\
    "c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df",\
    "b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"\
  ]\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphgroups "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/groups"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphgroups.NewAssignLicensePostRequestBody()
addLicenses := []graphmodels.AssignedLicenseable {

}
requestBody.SetAddLicenses(addLicenses)
removeLicenses := []uuid.UUID {
	uuid.MustParse("c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df"),
	uuid.MustParse("b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"),
}
requestBody.SetRemoveLicenses(removeLicenses)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
assignLicense, err := graphClient.Groups().ByGroupId("group-id").AssignLicense().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.groups.item.assignlicense.AssignLicensePostRequestBody assignLicensePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.groups.item.assignlicense.AssignLicensePostRequestBody();
LinkedList<AssignedLicense> addLicenses = new LinkedList<AssignedLicense>();
assignLicensePostRequestBody.setAddLicenses(addLicenses);
LinkedList<UUID> removeLicenses = new LinkedList<UUID>();
removeLicenses.add(UUID.fromString("c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df"));
removeLicenses.add(UUID.fromString("b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"));
assignLicensePostRequestBody.setRemoveLicenses(removeLicenses);
var result = graphClient.groups().byGroupId("{group-id}").assignLicense().post(assignLicensePostRequestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const group = {
  addLicenses: [],
  removeLicenses: [
    'c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df',
    'b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968'
  ]
};

await client.api('/groups/1132b215-826f-42a9-8cfe-1643d19d17fd/assignLicense')
	.post(group);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Groups\Item\AssignLicense\AssignLicensePostRequestBody;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AssignedLicense;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new AssignLicensePostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setAddLicenses([	]);
$requestBody->setRemoveLicenses(['c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df', 'b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968', 	]);

$result = $graphServiceClient->groups()->byGroupId('group-id')->assignLicense()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Groups

$params = @{
	addLicenses = @(
	)
	removeLicenses = @(
	"c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df"
"b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"
)
}

Set-MgGroupLicense -GroupId $groupId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.groups.item.assign_license.assign_license_post_request_body import AssignLicensePostRequestBody
from msgraph.generated.models.assigned_license import AssignedLicense
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AssignLicensePostRequestBody(
	add_licenses = [
	],
	remove_licenses = [
		UUID("c7df2760-2c81-4ef7-b578-5b5392b571df"),
		UUID("b05e124f-c7cc-45a0-a6aa-8cf78c946968"),
	],
)

result = await graph_client.groups.by_group_id('group-id').assign_license.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The response is the updated group object.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability..

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Content-type: application/json
location: https://graph.microsoft.com/v2/d056d009-17b3-4106-8173-cd3978ada898/directoryObjects/1ad75eeb-7e5a-4367-a493-9214d90d54d0/Microsoft.DirectoryServices.Group


{
  "id": "1ad75eeb-7e5a-4367-a493-9214d90d54d0",
  "deletedDateTime": null,
  "classification": null,
  "createdDateTime": "2018-04-18T22:05:03Z",
  "securityEnabled": true

}