Sonja Madsen | SharePoint MVP, Sonjasapps

Rob Latino | Program Manager, Microsoft

Meet Sonja Madsen | @a-somads

• SharePoint MVP– Microsoft partner and vendor

– Owner of Sonjasapps

– Blog about SharePoint 2013 at sp2013.blogspot.com

– Speaker at conferences on SharePoint topics

– Over 10 years with SharePoint

Meet Rob Latino

• Prepare to switch plans

• Switch plans manually

• Switch plan wizard

• Switch with Powershell

• Challenges:– Downtime

– Plan eligible for Switch Plan Wizard

– Custom domain

– Mailboxes

– Office version

– Credit checks

Agenda

Prepare to switch plans

• Review current service health

• Review schedule for planned maintenance

Switch Plans Manually

• Purchase a new plan

• Re-assign the licenses

• Cancel your old plan

Purchase a new plan

Office 365 Admin Center Purchase Services

Reassign the licenses

Cancel your old plan

Switch Plan Wizard

• Eligible plans

• Less than 300 users

Eligible plans

Plans eligible for the Switch plans wizard

Reason for “No switch plans”

Switch plans with Powershell

• Plans with over 300 users are not eligible for Switch Plan Wizard

• Prerequisits– Download and install the Microsoft Online Services Module for

PowerShell

Connect and Gather Information

• Connect

$cred = Get-Credential

Connect-MsolService -Credential $cred

• Review Licenses

Get-MsolAccountSku |ft AccountSkuId

Export and Re-assign Licenses

• Export a list of all users before you start making changes

Get-MsolUser -All | Export-Csv c:\temp\AllUsers.csv

• Re-assign licenses for one user

Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName {UserPrincipalName} | Where

{$_.Licenses[0].AccountSkuId -contains "{tenant}:E1"} | Set-

MsolUserLicense -AddLicenses "{tenant}:E3" -RemoveLicenses

"{tenant}:E1"

Re-assign licenses for all users

• Get-MsolUser -All | Where {$_.Licenses[0].AccountSkuId -

contains "{tenant}:STANDARDPACK"} | Set-MsolUserLicense -

AddLicenses "{tenant}:ENTERPRISEPACK" -RemoveLicenses

"{tenant}:STANDARDPACK"

Challenges:

• Downtime, Custom domain

• Office version

• Credit checks

Downtime, Custom Domain

• Custom domain, you’ll have to remove it from Office 365 and

then add it again after you’ve switched plans

• No custom domain: – Takes up to an hour with Switch Plan Wizard

– Admins have no access to O365 Admin portal

Office versions and accounts, Intune

• Different Office versions and accounts

• Old and new Outlook profile

• Reconfigure Intune

Credit Checks

• It can take up to 2 weeks

Summary

• Prepare to switch plans

• Switch plans manually

• Switch plan wizard

• Migrate with Powershell

• Challenges

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