Assigning licences for Minecraft Education Edition Faculty

When you purchase licences for Minecraft Education Edition, you may notice in the Microsoft Education Store that you also have licences for Minecraft Education Edition Faculty, this is because Microsoft give you additional licences for teachers to use so that you don't use up all your student licences when you're teaching.


however it is not clear in the Microsoft Education store how to assign these licences to users, for the standard M:EE licences you can assign these to students in the education store, however when you go to look at the Faculty licences, the message reads "To assign or view assigned users on your subscription, you must complete this task inside the Office 365 Admin Centre."

I certainly couldn't find any way to assign those Faculty licences through the Office 365 admin dashboard as it was suggesting, so I did some digging and discovered that these Faculty licences could only be assigned using PowerShell.

1. Install PowerShell Office 365 module, check out our guide to do this here
2. Open PowerShell as an administrator
3. Type the command Connect-MsolService -Credential $msolcred
4. Login with your Office 365 account to authenticate (administrator privileges required)
5. Type the command Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName "lgackle@domain.com" -AddLicenses "domain:MEE_FACULTY"
6. You should now have a license assigned for your account for Minecraft Education Edition Faculty
7. To check what licenses you have applied you can use the following command: Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName "lgackle@domain.com" | Format-List DisplayName,Licenses




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