Delete a user account to free a license

Delete a user account to free a license

If a user no longer needs licenses, like when an employee leaves an organization, you can delete that user’s account. When you do this, any licenses that were assigned to that person become available to assign to another user.

Caution   When a user’s license is removed, all data that is associated with that user account is held for 30 days. After the 30 day grace period, the data is deleted and can’t be recovered, except for documents that are saved on SharePoint Online. For information about how to block a user’s access to Office 365 data after their license has been removed and how to get access to the data afterwards,

To delete the account for one or more users

Do one of the following:

1. Sign in to Office 365 with your work or school account.

Tip   You need to sign in as either a Global admin or a Billing admin.

2. Select the app launcher icon in the upper-left and choose Admin.

· For Office 365 Small Business Premium, under users & groups, click Add users, reset passwords, and

For all other business and enterprise subscriptions, select Users > Active Users.

Select the name of the user or multiple users that you want to delete, and then do one of the following:

· For Office 365 Small Business Premium, click .

· For all other business and enterprise subscriptions, click  DELETE.

In the confirmation box, click Yes.