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title: Assign licenses to a group using the Microsoft 365 Admin center
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description: How to assign licenses to groups using the Microsoft 365 Admin center
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title: Assign licenses to a group using the Microsoft 365 admin center
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description: How to assign licenses to groups using the Microsoft 365 admin center
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services: active-directory
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keywords: Azure AD licensing
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documentationcenter: ''
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ms.subservice: enterprise-users
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ms.topic: how-to
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ms.workload: identity
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ms.date: 06/26/2023
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ms.date: 07/17/2023
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ms.author: barclayn
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## Assign a license
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1. Sign in to the [Microsoft 365 Admin center](https://admin.microsoft.com/) with a license administrator account. To manage licenses, the account must be a License Administrator, User Administrator, or Global Administrator.
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1. Sign in to the [Microsoft 365 admin center](https://admin.microsoft.com/) with a license administrator account. To manage licenses, the account must be a License Administrator, User Administrator, or Global Administrator.
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1. Browse to **Billing** > **Licenses** to open a page where you can see all licenses avaialble in your organization.
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1. Browse to **Billing** > **Licenses** to open a page where you can see all licenses available in your organization.
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1. Under **Licenses**, select the license that you would like to assign.
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1. In the License details section, choose **Groups** at the top of the page.
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1. Choose **+ Assign licenses**
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1. From the **+ Assign licenses** page search for the group that you would like to use for license assignment.
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>[!NOTE]
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>When assigning licenses to a group with service plans that have dependencies on other service plans, they must both be assigned together in the same group, otherwise the service plan with the dependency will be disabled.
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1. To complete the assignment, on the **Assign license** page, click **Assign** at the bottom of the page.
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When assign licenses to a group, Azure AD processes all existing members of that group. This process might take some time depending on the size of the group.
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## Verify that the initial assignment has finished
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1. From the Admin Center, go to **Billing** > **Licenses**. Select the license that you assigned.
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1. On the **License details** page, you can view the status of the license assignment operation. For example, in the image show below, you can see that **Contoso marketing** shows a status of **All licenses assigned** while **Contoso human resources** shows a status of **In progress**.

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[Read this section](licensing-group-advanced.md#use-audit-logs-to-monitor-group-based-licensing-activity) to learn more about how audit logs can be used to analyze changes made by group-based licensing.
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