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betaPublisher announcementDevice and app management | Cloud licensing · August 2026

Device and app management | Cloud licensing: 5 API change passages

What Microsoft published

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Added cloud licensing support for devices, enabling license assignment and usage tracking for device-based licensing scenarios. The new capabilities include: Added the deviceCloudLicensing resource type and the cloudLicensing property to the device resource. Use the List usageRights for device method to retrieve usage rights granted to a device through direct assignments and transitive group-based assignments. Use the Create assignment for device method to assign licenses directly to devices. Use the List waitingMembers for device method to retrieve devices in the waiting room due to license capacity limits.

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