How to assign licenses to groups instead of users

How to assign licenses to groups instead of users

Problem

While playing around with the Azure Licenses blade inside Azure Active Directory I was wondering why on earth I am not able to assing licenses to groups. Every time I clicked on Licensed groups and then on + Assign I only saw a list of users, without being able to select any groups.

It turned out that this feature is not supported with the Azure Free subscription. Okay fine, but I have already activated a free trial of Azure Active Directory Premium P2. So why am I still not able to assign to groups?

Solution

To solve this, I first had to assign my logged in user the necessary Azure Active Directory Premium P2 license manually via Licensed users => + Assign. Afterwards I was able to add a group...

Makes sense now if I think about it! 😀