A new Cloud Licensing API has turned up in the Microsoft Graph beta endpoint. Apparently, the new API aims to improve license management in various ways. For now, the new API returns essentially the same licensing data that’s available through other APIs and cmdlets. The full story about what problem Microsoft plans to solve with the Cloud Licensing API and usage rights remains to be seen.
A reader asked how to find when Azure AD accounts received certain licenses. As it turns out, this isn’t as simple as it seems. PowerShell can tell use when user accounts are enabled with service plans, but to get dates for licenses (products or SKUs), we need to go to the Graph API, and those dates aren’t quite there yet. In any case, it’s an interesting question which deserves some exploration to see if we can find an answer.
In this post, we describe how to use PowerShell to remove a single service plan from Microsoft 365 licenses using PowerShell. The script can remove any service plan from any SKU (license) in a tenant. You might want to do this to disable access to an obsolete feature (like Sway) or to prevent access to a new feature until the organization is ready to support user activity.