Least-privilege role for licensing, user-creation and group tasks

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CriterionCorrect pickWrong pick to avoid
Assign licences to a group in the Microsoft 365 admin center, on your own, no extra role neededGroups Administrator, License Administrator, or User Administrator (any one alone)Exchange Administrator or Global Reader (neither is sufficient)

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