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Enabling automatic user license sync for your enterprise

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You can manage license usage across your GitHub Enterprise deployments by automatically syncing user licenses from your GitHub Enterprise Server instance to GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

Enterprise owners can enable automatic user license synchronization.

About license synchronization

After you enable license synchronization, you'll be able to view license usage for your entire enterprise across GitHub Enterprise Server and GitHub Enterprise Cloud. GitHub Connect syncs license between GitHub Enterprise Server and GitHub Enterprise Cloud weekly. For more information, see "Managing your license for GitHub Enterprise."

You can also manually upload GitHub Enterprise Server user license information to GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see "Syncing license usage between GitHub Enterprise Server and GitHub Enterprise Cloud."

Enabling license synchronization

Before enabling license synchronization on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, you must enable GitHub Connect. For more information, see "Managing GitHub Connect."

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Enterprise settings. "Enterprise settings" in drop-down menu for profile photo on GitHub Enterprise Server
  2. In the enterprise account sidebar, click Settings. Settings tab in the enterprise account sidebar
  3. In the left sidebar, click GitHub Connect. GitHub Connect tab in the business account settings sidebar
  4. Under "Server can sync user license count and usage", use the drop-down menu and select Enabled. Drop-down menu to enable automatic user license sync