A user attribute that exists only in the cloud (AD sync doesn't supply it) and is required before a licence can be assigned directly. Group-based licensing once required it too, but now defaults to the tenant's location.
Also called UsageLocation.
Read more: Microsoft Learn
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Usage location in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
- Licence
What entitles one particular user to the services a subscription offers. Each product licence is made up of several service plans (one per app or service), and before giving it to someone an admin has to record that user's usage location.
- Group-based licensing
Licence assignment made to the direct members of a security-enabled group, requiring Entra ID P1 or P2. Members of nested groups are not included, and a licence a user inherits cannot be removed from that user directly.
- organization
VCF Automation's top-level tenant, completely isolated, owning separate users, networks and resources. Three kinds exist: All Apps, VM Apps and Provider Consumption.
Related terms
- License Administrator
A Microsoft Entra admin role that can give licences to and take them from users and groups, change a user's usage location and re-run group-based licence processing.