Assign licenses to a user by copying the license assignment from another user

[merill]

This example assigns jamesp@litwareinc.com with the same licensing plan that has been applied to belindan@litwareinc.com.

Connect-Graph -Scopes User.ReadWrite.All
$mgUser = Get-MgUser -UserId "belindan@litwareinc.com"
Set-MgUserLicense -UserId "jamesp@litwareinc.com" -AddLicenses $mgUser.AssignedLicenses -RemoveLicenses @()

[Arjan-van-Rees]

This works great when you know that you have available licenses. I've created a somewhat different scriptlet to do the same but also report sku's that I don't have available licenses for as part of a general onboarding script.

$SourceUserUPN is filled with the UPN of the source user while $UPN is filled with the UPN of the newly created or target user.

$mgSourceLicenses = (Get-MgUser -UserId $SourceUserUPN -Property AssignedLicenses).AssignedLicenses
$mgLicenseAvailability = get-mgsubscribedsku | where {$_.SkuId -in $mgSourceLicenses.SkuId} | select -Property Sku*, ConsumedUnits -ExpandProperty PrepaidUnits | select @{Name = 'Available'; Expression = {$_.Enabled - $_.ConsumedUnits}}, SkuId, SkuPartNumber

#Appoint licenses that are available, report on those that aren't

$mgLicenseAvailability | % {
    if ($_.Available -eq 0) {
        $mgLicenseError += $_.SkuPartNumber
        }
    else {
        Set-MgUserLicense -UserId $UPN -AddLicenses @{SkuId = $_.SkuId} -RemoveLicenses @()
        }
    }

If you then add a license list to your script that has a translation between the Sku part numbers and the friendly name you can create very userfriendly error messages stating which licenses haven't been added because they aren't available.