Windows is activated with a digital license You'll see one of these activation status messages on the Activation page:įollow instructions in Linking your Microsoft account. Your activation status will be listed next to Activation. You can also see if they are enabled or disabled for that user.To check activation status in Windows 10, select the Start button, and then select Settings > Update & Security and then select Activation. Interestingly we see another Service name here, for Teams its TeamspaceAPI. (Get-AzureADUser -objectid | Select-Object AssignedPlans).AssignedPlans You can look up the assigned service plans for a user. (Get-AzureADSubscribedSku | Where-Object | Select-Object ServicePlans).ServicePlansĮach Service plan has a ServicePlanID, 57ff2da0-773e-42df-b2af-ffb7a2317929 for Teams and a Service Plan Name, e.g. We can see that a Licencing Plan contains many Service plans in PowerShell. I might have Microsoft Office 365 E5 but have Phone System disabled for my account. Users can have multiple licenses assigned to them from different licensing plans that grant access to different services.Ī user might have a Licence Plan but have some services enabled or disabled by their Admin. Services are the Office 365 products, features, and capabilities that are available in each licensing plan, for example, Exchange Online. I can’t find a perfect master reference from Microsoft, but they all google (Get-AzureADUser -objectid | Select-Object AssignedLicenses).AssignedLicenses You can look up the assigned licenses for a user, but the PowerShell returns the GUID only, so you have to cross reference You can get your plans in PowerShell with Get-AzureADSubscribedSku | Select SkuPartNumber See Office 365 plan options for more detail of each plan. PowerShell uses the String ID as SkuPartNumber. They have a product name like “Office365 E3” and String ID like “ENTERPRISEPACK” for Office 365 Enterprise E3. A Licence Plan gives users access to many services defined in those plans. Licence Plan / Office 365 Plan / Microsoft 365 Plan / SKU / SkuPartNumber / Product Name / SkuIDĪre all different names for the same thing. See below for more explanation of these terms. Then it will refer to “Apps”, which refers to the enabled “service plans” for that user. Microsoft will refer to the “E bundles” as “Plans” in their marketing.īut the Office 365 Portal will refer to the same bundle as a “Licence”. When you start looking at Microsoft 365 Licences in PowerShell or Microsoft Graph it can get confusing. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft licensing terminology can be quite complicated.

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