After the 30-day grace period, the data is deleted and can't be recovered. When a license is removed from a user, Exchange Online data that is associated with that account is held for 30 days.What happens to a user's data when you remove their license? In the Manage product licenses pane, select Unassign all > Save changes. Select the circles next to the names of the users who you want to unassign licenses for.Īt the top, select Manage product licenses. In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.This is different from what you see on the Your products page, which displays a row for each subscription you own, even if they are for the same product.

The Licenses page shows that you have a total of 13 licenses for Microsoft 365 Business Premium across all your subscriptions. For example, you might have one subscription for Microsoft 365 Business Premium that has 5 licenses, and another subscription that has 8 licenses for the same product. The Licenses page shows an aggregate total of licenses for all subscriptions for the same product name.

The page shows the products you own, the number of available licenses for each product, and the number of assigned licenses out of the total licenses available. The Licenses page lets you assign or unassign licenses for up to 20 users at a time. Use the Licenses page to unassign licenses To assign or unassign licenses for those products, use the Licenses page.

If you're a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) and you bought products on behalf of a customer, you can't use the Your products page to assign or unassign licenses for certain products, like perpetual software.

When you delete a user account, their license is immediately available to assign to someone else.

You can also delete user accounts that were assigned a license to make their license available to other users.

You can remove licenses from user accounts with Microsoft 365 PowerShell.

For more information, see About Microsoft 365 admin roles.

You must be a Global, License, User admin to unassign licenses.

If the cancellation window has passed, turn off recurring billing to cancel the subscription at the end of its term. You can take over a purchase or trial subscription, and then assign or unassign licenses.įor some subscriptions, you can only cancel during a limited window of time after you buy or renew your subscription. As an admin, you can't assign or unassign licenses for a self-service purchase subscription bought by a user in your organization.

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