Manage Microsoft 365 user accounts, licenses, and groups with PowerShell

This article applies to both Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Office 365 Enterprise.

Microsoft 365 administrators need to manage user accounts, licenses, and groups. Although you can do most of these tasks in the Microsoft 365 admin center, some are easier in PowerShell.

For more information, see the following articles.

User accounts

• Create user accounts
• View user accounts
• Configure user account properties
• Assign roles to user accounts
• Delete and restore user accounts
• Block user accounts
• Passwords

Licenses and services

• View licenses and services
• View licensed and unlicensed users
• Assign licenses to user accounts
• View account license and service details
• Disable access to services
  • Disable access to Sway
  • Disable access to services while assigning user licenses
• Remove licenses from user accounts

Groups

• Manage security groups
• Manage Microsoft 365 groups