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user: assignLicense

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Add or remove licenses for the user to enable or disable their use of Microsoft cloud offerings that the company has licenses to. For example, an organization can have a Microsoft 365 Enterprise E3 subscription with 100 licenses, and this request assigns one of those licenses to a specific user. You can also enable and disable specific plans associated with a subscription. Direct user licensing method is an alternative to group-based licensing.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) LicenseAssignment.ReadWrite.All Directory.ReadWrite.All, User.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application LicenseAssignment.ReadWrite.All Directory.ReadWrite.All, User.ReadWrite.All

Important

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with the microsoft.directory/users/assignLicense role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation:

  • Directory Writers
  • License Administrator
  • User Administrator

HTTP request

POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/assignLicense

Request headers

Header Value
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type application/json

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter Type Description
addLicenses assignedLicense collection A collection of assignedLicense objects that specify the licenses to add. You can disable servicePlans associated with a license by setting the disabledPlans property on an assignedLicense object.
removeLicenses Guid collection A collection of skuIds that identify the licenses to remove. Required. Can be an empty collection.

Response

If successful, this method returns 200 OK response code and user object in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Assign licenses to the signed-in user

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/assignLicense
Content-type: application/json

{
    "addLicenses": [
        {
            "disabledPlans": [
                "8a256a2b-b617-496d-b51b-e76466e88db0"
            ],
            "skuId": "84a661c4-e949-4bd2-a560-ed7766fcaf2b"
        },
        {
            "disabledPlans": [],
            "skuId": "f30db892-07e9-47e9-837c-80727f46fd3d"
        }
    ],
    "removeLicenses": []
}

Response

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "accountEnabled": true,
  "assignedLicenses": [
        {
            "disabledPlans": [
                "8a256a2b-b617-496d-b51b-e76466e88db0"
            ],
            "skuId": "84a661c4-e949-4bd2-a560-ed7766fcaf2b"
        },
        {
            "disabledPlans": [],
            "skuId": "f30db892-07e9-47e9-837c-80727f46fd3d"
        }
    ],
  "city": "Nairobi",
  "companyName": "Contoso"
}

Example 2: Remove licenses from the signed-in user

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/assignLicense
Content-type: application/json

{
    "addLicenses": [],
    "removeLicenses": [
        "f30db892-07e9-47e9-837c-80727f46fd3d",
        "84a661c4-e949-4bd2-a560-ed7766fcaf2b"
    ]
}

Response

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "accountEnabled": true,
  "assignedLicenses": [],
  "city": "Nairobi",
  "companyName": "Contoso"
}