Sets up the Office 365 plans to check.

The script below depends on the Exchange Online and Microsoft Online Services (MSOL) PowerShell modules. One of the joys of Office 365 is that you can mix and match plans to meet your functional and financial requirements, so limiting things to a single plan seems like a bad thing. I don’t like the script too much because it assumes that you’re going to disable the Teams license for all users with a certain plan, and that you only use one plan. Microsoft has a script to disable Teams licenses that you can check out too. The example shown below uses V1 the exercise to upgrade the script to V2 is left for the reader. Two versions of the module are in common use today. Licenses are assigned to Azure Active Directory accounts, so the cmdlets to manage licenses are in the Azure Active Directory PowerShell module.

Fortunately, you can use PowerShell to remove licenses for sub-features bundled into an Office 365 plan like Teams, Forms, To-Do, or Stream. Moving a slider is OK for one user, gets boring after several users, and becomes a royal pain after a few more. Figure 2: Removing a Teams license from a user with the Office 365 Admin Center (image credit: Tony Redmond)

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