Scripting License Assignment in Office 365 for education - Microsoft Education in the Cloud - Site Home

As more and more education institutions take advantage of Office 365 for education’s powerful capabilities a question that comes up is: how can you script license assignment for your staff, students and alumni so that you don’t have to manually go through the process each time you enroll new users?

Thankfully there are a couple of great blog posts that talk about how to go about doing this, and which licenses you need for education.

For quick reference, the plans relevant to education customers are:

Academic Plans (A Plans)

STANDARDPACK_STUDENT	Microsoft Office 365 Plan A1 for Students*
STANDARDPACK_FACULTY	Microsoft Office 365 Plan A1 for Faculty*
STANDARDWOFFPACK_STUDENT	Microsoft Office 365 Plan A2 for Students
ENTERPRISEPACK_STUDENT	Microsoft Office 365 Plan A3 for Students
ENTERPRISEPACKWITHSCAL_STUDENT	Microsoft Office 365 Plan A4 for Students
STANDARDWOFFPACK_FACULTY	Microsoft Office 365 Plan A2 for Faculty
ENTERPRISEPACK_FACULTY	Microsoft Office 365 Plan A3 for Faculty
ENTERPRISEPACKWITHSCAL_FACULTY	Microsoft Office 365 Plan A4 for Faculty

*Microsoft Office 365 Plan A1 is superseded by Plan A2.

Components

EXCHANGESTANDARD_ALUMNI	Exchange Online (Plan 1) for Alumni
EXCHANGESTANDARD_STUDENT	Exchange Online (Plan 1) for Students
EXCHANGESTANDARD_FACULTY	Exchange Online (Plan 1) for Faculty
EXCHANGEENTERPRISE_STUDENT	Exchange Online (Plan 2) for Students
EXCHANGEENTERPRISE_FACULTY	Exchange Online (Plan 2) for Faculty
MCOIMP_STUDENT	Lync Online (Plan 1) for Students
MCOIMP_FACULTY	Lync Online (Plan 1) for Faculty
MCOSTANDARD_STUDENT	Lync Online (Plan 2) for Students
MCOSTANDARD_FACULTY	Lync Online (Plan 2) for Faculty
SHAREPOINTSTANDARD_FACULTY	SharePoint Online (Plan 1) for Faculty
SHAREPOINTENTERPRISE_STUDENT	SharePoint Online (Plan 2) for Students
SHAREPOINTENTERPRISE_FACULTY	SharePoint Online (Plan 2) for Faculty
SHAREPOINTEXTRANET_FACULTY	SharePoint Online Partner Access for EDU
SHAREPOINTSTORAGE_FACULTY	SharePoint Online Storage
WACSHAREPOINTSTD_FACULTY	Office Web Apps (Plan 1) For Faculty
WACSHAREPOINTENT_FACULTY	Office Web Apps (Plan 2) For Faculty
OFFICESUBSCRIPTION	Office Professional Plus
SHAREPOINTEDU	N/A – SharePoint Online