enabling-automatic-user-license-sync-for-your-enterprise.md

title	Enabling automatic user license sync for your enterprise
intro	You can manage license usage across your {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} environments by automatically syncing user licenses from {% data variables.location.product_location %} to {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %}.
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permissions	Enterprise owners can enable automatic user license synchronization.
versions	ghes *
shortTitle	Automatic user license sync
contentType	how-tos
category	Install and configure your instance

About automatic license synchronization

{% data reusables.enterprise-licensing.unique-user-licensing-model %}

{% data reusables.enterprise-licensing.about-license-sync %} For more information, see AUTOTITLE.

If you enable automatic user license sync for your enterprise, every week, {% data variables.product.prodname_github_connect %} will automatically synchronize license usage between {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %} and your enterprise on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}{% ifversion ghecom-license-sync %} or {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %}{% endif %}. You can also synchronize your license data at any time outside of the automatic weekly sync, by manually triggering a license sync job. For more information, see AUTOTITLE.

If you use multiple {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %} instances, you can enable automatic license sync between each of your instances and the same enterprise account on {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %}.

{% data reusables.enterprise-licensing.view-consumed-licenses %}

You can also manually upload {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %} user license information to {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %}. For more information, see AUTOTITLE.

{% data reusables.enterprise-licensing.verified-domains-license-sync %}

Enabling license synchronization

Before enabling license synchronization on {% data variables.location.product_location %}, you must enable {% data variables.product.prodname_github_connect %}. See {% ifversion ghecom-license-sync %}AUTOTITLE or {% endif %}AUTOTITLE.

{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.access-enterprise %} {% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.github-connect-tab %}

1. To the right of "License sync", click Enable.

   

{% ifversion scim-for-ghes-ga %}

Note

If SAML with SCIM is enabled, the scim-admin setup user will not consume a license. For more information, see AUTOTITLE. {% endif %}