Tenant does not have a SPO license

Question

I have an error while trying to use Microsoft Graph to write a script to upload an Excel file to OneDrive then read the Excel file.

I followed Microsoft documentation to obtain the access token without user. I successfully got an access token but I got an error while using the access token to call the OneDrive API.

Here is the response:

{
    "error": {
        "code": "BadRequest",
        "message": "Tenant does not have a SPO license.",
        "innerError": {
            "request-id": "5ec31d17-3aea-469f-9078-de3608f11d0d",
            "date": "2017-10-10T04:34:05"
        }
    }
}

I don't understand why I need to have SPO license while calling graph API and how to get it. Because of this error message so I'm trying to buy a SPO license.

According to this document, I think I should see many products in the license pages but while logging in with Azure Portal and go to the License page, I see only 2 products: Azure AD Premium and Enterprise Mobility Suite:

Answer 1

In case anyone else has a similar issue, I was getting the same error message when using an Office 365 Home license. It turns out SPO stands for SharePoint Online, and you need an Office 365 Business account to have it. So as far as I can tell, you can't use the Microsoft Graph API to access OneDrive without having SharePoint (which only comes with the business licenses). This isn't really made clear anywhere that I could find.