Office 365: Assign Licenses based on group membership using PowerShell

There will be a time when you will need to assign licenses based on group membership (AD Security/Distribution Groups). Below I have created a script that will assist in this effort.

Summary of the steps:

1. First we set a few variables upfront with their values
2. Now for some logging. This will create a log file for error logging. No need to delete it, it will append each time you run the script.
3. Now let’s get the Group Members
4. Now we create a variable that holds our service options (Optional)
5. Now for the work; We will get the group members, set their locations, and apply the license(s) with options.
6. And to close it out we will “stop the logging”

Here is the script: ENJOY!!!!

#set your variables
Set-Variable -name GroupName -value “<SecurityGroup Name>”
Set-Variable -name UsageLocation -value <Type the location here; example: US>
##create Log file for logging
$Log = “<Name your log file here>” + “.log”
$ErrorActionPreference=”SilentlyContinue”
Stop-Transcript | out-null
$ErrorActionPreference = “Continue”
Start-Transcript -path $Log -append
###get group members
$secGP = Get-MsolGroup -SearchString $GroupName
$secObj = $secGP.ObjectId

####set license Options; use this if you want to disable service option
$NoSkypeAccountSku = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId “<Your Tenant Name here:ENTERPRISEPACK>” -disabledPlans “MCOSTANDARD”

#####get your group members, set your location for members and assign licenses
Get-MsolGroupMember -GroupObjectId $secObj -All | ForEach-Object {
Set-MsolUser -ObjectId $_.ObjectId -UsageLocation $UsageLocation
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $_.EmailAddress -AddLicenses “<Your Tenant Name Here:ENTERPRISEPACK>” -licenseOptions $NoSkypeAccountSku
}
######stop your logging
Stop-Transcript