Office 365 Licensing with Powershell

The Basics

Recently I’ve had to explore the dark art of license assignment using Powershell. It’s not particularly well documented so this might help you…

Displaying a list of the current licensing assignment is pretty straightforward. Get-MsolUser can be used to return information on an individual or a list of users.

Get-MsolUser -All run on its own will return all of the users available in the tenant along with whether or not there is a user license assigned.… [Keep reading] “Office 365 Licensing with Powershell”

Deploying Office 365 Desktop Updates

When migrating to Office 365 it is necessary to distribute updates to your client machines which will facilitate authentication with the Office 365 service along with adding features and support for the Office 365 services into the Office suite on your desktop.

There are a couple of ways these updates can be distributed to the client machines: –

Centralised Deployment

Many businesses will have an SOE and a managed environment in which the most effective method of distribution will be using a patch management system such as Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager.… [Keep reading] “Deploying Office 365 Desktop Updates”