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PowerShell Script to remove Office 365 Service Plans from a user

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:09:16 +0000

When assigning an Office 365 license to a user, by default several service plans are enabled. When assigning an Office 365 E3 license to a user, the following service plans are enabled by default:

Azure Rights Management
Office 365 Pro Plus
Skype for Business Online (Plan 2)
Office Online
SharePoint Online (Plan 2)
Exchange Online (Plan 2)

From an end user perspective the user will see the following options when logging on to Office 365.

Windows 8 - Troubleshooting Licensing with licensingdiag.exe

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:32:05 +0000

Should you encounter problems with activating Windows 8 or Server 2012 then have a look at the new added command-line tool licensingdiag.exe.

To run licensingdiag.exe open a command prompt and enter the following command:

licensingdiag.exe -report c:\data\licensing\licenserep.xml -log c:\data\licensing\license.cab

This will create a log file and a CAB file. The log file is an XML type file that contains various information about the client, the OS and its licensing status. The CAB file contains a copy of the log file, a file called tokenstore.dat (I was unable to find any information about its purpose) and a Diagevents.evtx that contains a dump of License related events and can be opened using Eventviewer.

Frequently Asked Questions About Volume License Keys

Mon, 17 May 2010 19:29:35 +0000

A good FAQ about Microsoft Volume licensing. Details here

Windows Licensing Fact Sheet

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:46:19 +0000

Has your organization ever acquired PCs without operating systems preinstalled, and then used its Volume Licensing agreement to install the full operating system on those PCs? Download the Windows Licensing Fact Sheet to learn more about Windows Licensing.

Microsoft VDI Suite License review

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:09:09 +0000

Brian Madden has done an analysis on the Microsoft VDI Suite License bundles. Read the entire article here

Volume Activation changes in Windows7

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:37:29 +0000

Here is another video from TechnetEdge talking about the changes in volume activation for Windows7. What I found interesting to hear is that there will be a patch available for your current KMS server running on Windows Server 2003 or 2008 that will allow your current KMS system recognizing Windows7 clients.

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Volume-Activation-changes-in-Windows-7/

Microsoft Volume Licensing

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:31:50 +0000

Most recent Microsoft Volume Licensing documentation can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8798816-b0ba-4337-ba38-8fe2cf32b5d8&DisplayLang=en