How can a licensing plans has multiple subscriptions

Question

Hi Guys,

I am figuring a powershell script using Get-MsolAccountSKU and Get-MsolSubscriptions to pull the license stats. 

My question is simple but I cannot verify. Is it possible that there would be multiple subscriptions associate with a licensing plans? 

In the document of Get-MsolAccountSKU on MSND, SubscriptionIds: A list of all subscriptions associated with this SKU. For the purposes of assigning licenses, all subscriptions with the same SKU will be grouped into a single license pool. 

But in the admin center, I don't feel I can add another subscription to a licensing plan. I think I can only either renew a subscription or change the license count of a subscription.

Thanks,

John

Answer 1

I understood.

What confuses me is the description of SubscriptionIds property of return object from Get-MsolAccountSku. It seems it always has only one subscription for a SKU. Why it is defined as a list of subscriptioins?

Thanks,

John

Answer 2

Hi John,

Can you share some updates with us?

Regards,

Vinson

Answer 3

Hi John,

If you see just one subscription after running Get-MsolAccoutSku, that means you have one subscription in the tenant. And you can purchase other subscriptions to add them in your tenant.

Thanks,

Vinson

Answer 4

Hi Vinson,

In short, my question is in what cases there would be more than 1 subscription in SubcriptionIds properties returned by Get-MsolAccoutSku.

Thanks,

John

Answer 5

Hi John,

Base on my comprehension, you want to change some of licenses for original subscription into ones for other subscriptions. If so, it’s not feasible to get it. If not, please post back and provide us more details about your requirements.

Thanks,

Vinson