Assigning Office 365 options to users (Basic)

I have recently been working with a school who have signed up to Microsoft’s OVS-ES service, as a part of this they are entitled to apply for Student Advantage licenses which will allow pupils to download and install an up to date version of Office on up to 5 devices at home. In order to access this feature the school need to sign up for an Office 365 account and to use the A2 (Free) service.
Administrators can apply licenses to staff and pupils through a website, however this only allows you to modify a limited number of users at a time but Microsoft have been generous and provided a means of automating some of these processes using PowerShell.
In order to accomplish this you will require the Windows Azure Components installed on your computer, once these are installed you will be able to use PowerShell to connect and work with your Office 365 service.
The script below is an example of PowerShell code which will allow you to apply a license to users within a certain department (AD Attribute), once this license has been applied any restrictions you wish on the services within the license are added.
This script could be amended to work with Pupil users by editing the License used and the Department searched for, however the script is very basic and will not take into account any users who may have conflicting entries to those you set, I have not tested this scenario.
I will follow up on this basic post with a more comprehensive one which will allow you to pick the department and license you wish to apply based on basic text menu’s presented in the shell but for now this will give you something to be going on with.

 1 ###################################################################################
 2 # Marc Hundley
 3 # 4 # Version 0.1
 5 # 6 # 16/07/2014
 7 # 8 # Purpose : Allocating with restrictions access for Staff to the O365 tools online
 9 ###################################################################################
10 #11 # Requirements
12 # ------------
13 #14 # Windows Azure Components
15 # Office 365 online account
16 #17 ######
18 #19 # Suitable amount of licenses to allocate to staff
20 #21 ######
22 #23 # Knowledge of TENANT_ID - can be obtained by using the following commands :
24 #25 # import-module MSOnline
26 # $msolcred = Get-Credential
27 # Connect-MsolService -Credential $msolcred
28 # $licenses = Get-MsolAccountSku
29 # $licenses
30 #31 # This will give you all of the available licenses, the TENANT_ID will be the 
32 # common factor before the :
33 #34 ######
35 #36 # Edit the -DisabledPlans entry depending on the needs of the customer, these 
37 # can be obtained with the command :
38 #39 # import-module MSOnline
40 # $msolcred = Get-Credential
41 # Connect-MsolService -Credential $msolcred
42 # $licenses = Get-MsolAccountSku
43 # $licenses[x].ServiceStatus
44 #45 # Where [x] is the license you wish to view (array starting at 0)
46 #47 # Options for the STANDARDWOFFPACK_FACULTY are as follows
48 #49 # YAMMER_EDU
50 # SHAREPOINTWAC_EDU
51 # MCOSTANDARD
52 # SHAREPOINTSTANDARD_EDU
53 # EXCHANGE_S_STANDARD
54 #55 ######
56 #57 # Staff members are to be members of the Staff department in Active Directory
58 # which has synchronised with Office 365
59 #60 ###################################################################################
61 
62 #Import O365 Azure module
63 import-module MSOnline64 #Clear Screen
65 cls66 
67 #Connect to Office 365 with admin credentials
68 $msolcred = Get-Credential69 Connect-MsolService -Credential $msolcred
70 
71 #get users
72 $users = Get-MsolUser -Department "Staff" -MaxResults 2500
73 
74 #Assign faculty pack exclusions to variable (edit disabledplans as needed by customer)
75 $myO365Sku = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId <TENANT_ID>:STANDARDWOFFPACK_FACULTY -DisabledPlans EXCHANGE_S_STANDARD76 
77 #Assign components for each user
78 foreach ($user in $users) {79  $username = $user.UserPrincipalName80  write-Host "Assigning License for "$username
81  #Add Overall license (required before setting restrictions)
82  Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $username -AddLicenses <TENANT_ID>:STANDARDWOFFPACK_FACULTY83  #Assign exclusions
84  Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $username -LicenseOptions $myO365Sku
85 }