Migration of non-Admin purchased licenses

The Microsoft Store for Education is retiring in the first quarter of 2023.  This retirement impacts your Minecraft Education subscriptions and may require manual configuration from you.

The migration is happening over the last two weeks of March.  You can go through the steps below at any time.

How this will affect your organization

Your tenant owns licenses that were purchased by non-Admins in the Store for Education that will not be automatically migrated to the Microsoft 365 admin center.

• The Store for Education allowed non-Admins to purchase and manage Minecraft Education licenses for your organization.  Your organization owns a number of these licenses that are currently managed in the Store for Education.
• The admin center does not allow purchase or management by non-Admins, so we are unable to migrate these licenses directly.
• You may already have licenses in the admin center that you can assign to affected users.
• We can help you manually migrate the non-Admin purchased licenses manually if you don’t own other licenses that grant access to Minecraft Education.

What you need to do to prepare

1. Check which users in your organization have been assigned licenses in the Store for Education
   • Log into the Store for Education with a Global Admin account for your tenant
   • Select Manage in the top navigation, and then click Products & Services on the left navigation
   • Click on the Minecraft Education – Credit Card product. 
   • Note the users that have been assigned licenses.
2. Check if the users have been assigned licenses in the admin center
   • Log into the admin center
   • Expand the Users section of the left nav
   • Select Active users
   • Search for each user that was assigned a license in the Store for Education and note the licenses assigned to them.
3. If the user does not have a Minecraft Education license:
   • If your organization owns subscriptions to one of the following license types, you can assign one of these licenses to grant access to Minecraft Education.
     • M365 A3/A5 bundled license
     • Minecraft Education
     • Minecraft Education for Student
     • Minecraft Education for Faculty
     • M365 A1 for Device
   • If your organization does not own these subscriptions and you would like your users to continue to have access to Minecraft Education, reach out to the Minecraft Education Support desk for help manually migrating the licenses.

Where you can find additional resources

• Store for Education Migration FAQ – Minecraft: Education Edition Support
• Licenses purchased by a non-admin – Minecraft: Education Edition Support