Sign in to LicenseMeter

What happens next

Four steps from this button to your first findings.

1. 1

   About 30 seconds

   Step 1: Sign in with Microsoft

   Use your work or school account. There is no signup form and no password for us to store. We receive your name, your username and email address, and the IDs of your account and your organisation, and nothing else. Nothing in your tenant is read, and you normally need no admin rights. If Microsoft shows "Need admin approval", your organisation does not let people approve apps themselves: an admin can approve this sign-in, which covers your basic profile only.

2. 2

   Immediately

   Step 2: Your workspace is ready

   A workspace is created for you. If your organisation already has one, you join your colleagues there or ask them for access, depending on how they set it up.

3. 3

   A few minutesNeeds an admin

   Step 3: Connect Microsoft 365

   One read-only admin consent, given by a Global Administrator or a Privileged Role Administrator. It is a second Microsoft dialog, for a separate app called LicenseMeter Connector: signing in alone never grants access to your tenant. LicenseMeter cannot change anything in your tenant: every permission below only reads. You can revoke the consent at any time in Entra, under Enterprise applications.

   The 5 read-only permissions, and why

   • User.Read.All

     Lists the people in your directory, whether each account is enabled and which licenses it holds.

   • AuditLog.Read.All

     Reads when each person last signed in, so a license nobody uses stands out. Microsoft provides this with Entra ID P1.

   • Reports.Read.All

     Reads Microsoft's usage reports for the Microsoft 365 apps and Copilot: activity dates and counts, never mail or file content.

   • LicenseAssignment.Read.All

     Reads how many seats you bought and how many of them are assigned.

   • ReportSettings.Read.All

     Checks whether Microsoft hides user names in usage reports, so we can tell you when that limits a finding.

   The details are in the Microsoft 365 connector guide and the security overview, written for the person who has to approve it.

   No admin rights yourself? You can sign in and upload a license export instead, and connect later.

4. 4

   First scan: a few minutes

   Step 4: See what the unused licenses cost

   Every finding is priced per month, so you see what each unused license costs. You get a report to share and the scripts to fix what you decide to fix. Free, with no time limit.