# Manage subscription users for License Manager user-based subscriptions
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To ensure the accuracy of billing and reporting for Microsoft Office and Visual Studio product subscriptions in License Manager, and to prevent unauthorized access to subscription resources, you can manage user access as follows.

[Disassociate users from an instance](usubs-disassociate-users.md)  
Disassociate a user from an instance that hosts a License Manager user-based Microsoft Office or Visual Studio product subscription to remove access to the resource.

[Unsubscribe users](usubs-unsubscribe-users.md)  
Unsubscribe users from user-based Microsoft Office or Visual Studio product subscriptions in AWS License Manager to stop incurring subscription charges for those individuals.

**Note**  
Deleting a user from Active Directory will not alter user associations or subscriptions for Microsoft Office and Visual Studio products. You must disassociate the user in License Manager from the subscription product details page to remove their association with an instance. Then you must unsubscribe the user.  
This topic does not cover Active Directory administration.

**Topics**
+ [Disassociate users from an instance](usubs-disassociate-users.md)
+ [Unsubscribe users](usubs-unsubscribe-users.md)

# Disassociate users from an instance that provides License Manager user-based subscriptions
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To remove user access to an instance that provides License Manager user-based subscriptions, you can disassociate the subscribed user from that instance. This change does not affect the user's subscription status. To unsubscribe a user and stop subscription charges for that individual, see [Unsubscribe users from user-based product subscriptions in License Manager](usubs-unsubscribe-users.md).

**Disassociate subscription users from an instance**

1. Open the License Manager console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/).

1. In the left navigation pane, under **User-based subscriptions**, choose **User association**.

1. Select the instance that you want to disassociate users from.

1. Select the user names to disassociate, then choose **Disassociate users**.

# Unsubscribe users from user-based product subscriptions in License Manager
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You must unsubscribe a user from a Microsoft Office or Visual Studio user-based subscription product to stop incurring charges for them. Microsoft RDS is billed on a per user, per month basis based on a combination of the user subscription and the client access license (CAL) token that's issued from the license server when the user connects to an instance that provides the subscription product. For more information, see [Microsoft RDS billing in License Manager](user-based-subscriptions.md#usubs-billing-rds).

**Important**  
For Microsoft Office or Visual Studio user-based subscription products, you must first disassociate the Active Directory user from all instances where they are currently associated before you can unsubscribe them.

**Unsubscribe users from user-based product subscriptions**

1. Open the License Manager console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/).

1. In the left navigation pane, under **User-based subscriptions**, choose **Products**.

1. Select the product that you want to unsubscribe users from.

1. Select the user names to unsubscribe, then choose **Unsubscribe users**.