If you're paying for an annual plan or if you're in the middle of a billing cycle, you won't be able to remove the license from your subscription until your commitment is completed. You can't remove the license if you bought it through a Partner or volume licensing. If you select this option, the license will be removed automatically from your subscriptions. You can remove the license from the user and remove it from your subscriptions to stop paying for that license. Things to considerīefore you begin, think about what you want to do with the user's email and OneDrive content, and whether you want to keep the license or stop paying for it.

If you are a global administrator, when you delete a user you can also give another user access to their email, and choose what to do with their OneDrive content. Global admin: Delete a user, stop paying for their license, and choose what to do with their email and OneDrive content To learn more, see Manage inactive mailboxes in Exchange Online. If you have an Enterprise subscription like Office 365 Enterprise E3, you can preserve the mailbox data of a deleted user account by turning it into an inactive mailbox.See Get access to and back up a former user's data. If you've already deleted the account: if it's been less than 30 days you can restore it, then move the email data, then delete the account. If you want to keep the user's email, BEFORE you delete the account, move the email to a different location.You don't need to move their SharePoint files you'll still have access to them. You can even move the data up to 30 days after deleting the account. If you want to keep the user's OneDrive data, move it to a different location.You have 30 days to restore the account before the user's data is permanently deleted.Only people who have Microsoft 365 global admin or User management permissions for the business or school can delete user accounts.Looking for how to delete your own Microsoft 365 user account that you use at work or school? Contact the technical support at your work or university to do these steps for you.

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