How to enforce license precedence

Summary: There are Microsoft Office 365 license plans that cannot be assigned to the user simultaneously. There is a special setting in Cayosoft Administrator rules that assign Office 365 licenses to the users. This setting is Enforce license precedence.

This article describes how to enforce license precedence for the license plans that cannot be assigned at the same time.

Applies to: Cayosoft Administrator 5.x 

ID: KB20181026-1

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Enforce license precedence

Let's say we have Office 365 Enterprise E1 and Office 365 Enterprise E3 plans in our tenant. These plans have options that cannot be applied to the user at the same time:

 <Node Id="ENTERPRISEPACK" Name="Office 365 (Plan E3)" Tag="SP">

...

  <Node Id="SHAREPOINTENTERPRISE" Name="SharePoint Online (Plan 2)" Tag="SN" TargetClass="User" />

  <Node Id="EXCHANGE_S_ENTERPRISE" Name="Exchange Online ‎(Plan 2)‎" Tag="SN" TargetClass="User" />

 </Node>

 

  <Node Id="STANDARDPACK" Name="Office 365 (Plan E1)" Tag="SP">

 ...

  <Node Id="SHAREPOINTSTANDARD" Name="SharePoint Online ‎(Plan 1)‎" Tag="SN" TargetClass="User" />

  <Node Id="EXCHANGE_S_STANDARD" Name="Exchange Online (Plan 1)" Tag="SN" TargetClass="User" />

 </Node>

Options:

1. SHAREPOINTENTERPRISE and SHAREPOINTSTANDARD
2. EXCHANGE_S_ENTERPRISE and EXCHANGE_S_STANDARD

cannot be selected simultaneously for the user.

Nevertheless, if you need to use these plans at the same time, you should use Enforce license precedence setting in the rule that assigns licenses to the users in such a way:

SHAREPOINTSTANDARD>SHAREPOINTENTERPRISE, EXCHANGE_S_STANDARD>EXCHANGE_S_ENTERPRISE

That means that SHAREPOINTSTANDARD and EXCHANGE_S_STANDARD won't be selected but SHAREPOINTENTERPRISE and EXCHANGE_S_ENTERPRISE will be selected.

 

For more information about the plans that cannot be assigned together, see Service plans that cannot be assigned at the same time article.