Buy, assign and remove licenses in Office 365

Managing your Office 365 license can be easy! Just follow these simple tutorials.

Buy a license

  1. Sign in to Office 365 using an administrator account.
  2. Then, choose Admin.
    Office 365 Buy License Step 2
  3. Go to Billing > Subscriptions
  4. On the Subscriptions page, select the subscription that you want to add licenses to and then select Add/Remove users.
  5. In the Total licenses box, enter the total number of licenses that you need for this subscription and then select Submit. For example, if you had 100 licenses and you need to add 5 more, you would enter 105. 

Remove a license

  1. Sign in to Office 365 using an administrator account.
  2. Select the app launcher icon Office 365 app launcher icon in the upper-left and choose Admin.
    Office 365 Remove License Step 2
  3. Navigate to Users on the left panel of the Office 365 admin center.
    Office 365 Remove License Step 3
  4. Check the box for the name of the user who you want to remove a license for.
    Office 365 Remove License Step 4
  5. Click Edit Edit and then Select Licenses.
    Office 365 Remove License Step 5
  6. Under Assign licenses, To unassign a license from the user, unselect the box for the license you want to remove.
    Office 365 Remove License Step 6
  7. Click on Save.
    Office 365 Remove License Step 7

Assign a license

  1. Sign in to Office 365 using an administrator account.
  2. Select the app launcher icon Office 365 app launcher icon in the upper-left and choose Admin.
    Office 365 Assign License Step 2
  3. Navigate to Users > Active Users on the left panel of the Office 365 admin center.
    Office 365 Assign License Step 3
  4. Check the box for the name of the user who you want to add a license for.
    Office 365 Assign License Step 4
  5. Click Edit Edit and then Select Licenses.
    Office 365 Assign License Step 5
  6. Under Assign licenses, To assign a license to the selected user, select the box for the license you want to assign.
    Office 365 Remove License Step 6
  7. Click Save.
    Office 365 Assign License Step 7

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