On Demand License Management Current

When you click Licenses | Dashboard in the left navigation panel, the Licenses dashboard provides access to a summary of license usage and an overview of cost information The Summary dashboard displays by default.

To see specific cost data, you can click Cost on the menu bar at the top of the dashboard. For more information, see Licenses cost .

The Summary dashboard provides an overview of license usage and a Needs your attention summary of current issues and warnings. You can drill down to see recommendations for any detected issues. For more information, see Needs your attention .

The dashboard is available to all On Demand users. A Licenses subscription is not required.

Viewing the summary dashboard

On Demand Licenses gathers licensing data from your tenant and attempts to match this data with published Microsoft 365 license information to show a user friendly display name, whether it is paid or free, and the applicable estimated retail cost. The overall quality of this data can depend on several factors, including your pricing agreement with Microsoft. In addition, it is important to consider the following aspects of the licensing data when viewing the dashboard.

The dashboard only displays paid licenses. On Demand Licenses focuses on optimizing your tenant licensing costs. Therefore, licenses judged to be trial licenses are excluded. In some scenarios, the license Friendly Display Name, Cost, and whether it is classified as Free or Trial might be unknown or incorrect. For example,

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Some licenses gathered from your tenant will show a display name prefixed by a “?”. In this case, the license type is unknown and there is no associated cost estimate.

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A license type gathered from your tenant might be known to On Demand Licenses, but show up as a Trial with no associated cost when it is paid in your tenant. This can happen in cases where the paid Microsoft 365 license shares the same stock keeping unit (SKU) as its trial counterpart. In this case, you can define a customized rate for the license. See Customizing rates and excluding licenses.

License cost data

The initial license cost data presented on the Summary dashboard is based on Microsoft default rates. The Customize Rates feature can be used to specify the actual license costs being charged in your tenant, with a resulting increase in the accuracy of the cost data. See Licenses cost.

Tenants filter

If your organization contains multiple tenants, the data displayed in the Summary dashboard depends on what tenants are currently selected. Use the Tenants filter located in the top right to determine which tenants are included.

Working with the Licenses summary dashboard

The tiles and charts on the summary dashboard provide an overview of your licenses, license activity, and costs.


	Estimated license cost
	Estimated license loss
	Available paid licenses
	Inactive assigned licenses
	Needs your attention
	Paid license distribution
	Product Usage
	License availability