About synchronization of license usage
You can allocate the user count for your GitHub Enterprise license to members of both your GitHub Enterprise Server instance and an enterprise account on GitHub Enterprise Cloud. When you add a user to either environment, the user will consume one license. If a user has accounts in both environments, to consume only one license, the user's primary email address on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance must be the same as the user's verified email address on GitHub.com. You can sync license count and usage between the environments.
If you allow your GitHub Enterprise Server instance to connect to your enterprise account on GitHub.com, you can sync license usage between the environments automatically. Automatic synchronization ensures that you see up-to-date license details on GitHub.com. If you don't want to allow your GitHub Enterprise Server instance to connect to GitHub.com, you can manually sync license usage by uploading a file from your GitHub Enterprise Server instance to GitHub.com.
For more information about licenses and usage for GitHub Enterprise Server, see "About licenses for GitHub Enterprise."
Automatically syncing license usage
You can use GitHub Connect to automatically sync user license count and usage between GitHub Enterprise Server and GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see "Enabling automatic user license sync between GitHub Enterprise Server and GitHub Enterprise Cloud."
Manually syncing license usage
You can download a JSON file from GitHub Enterprise Server and upload the file to GitHub Enterprise Cloud to manually sync user license usage between the two deployments.
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In the top-right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Enterprise settings.
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In the enterprise account sidebar, click Settings.
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In the left sidebar, click License.
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Under "Quick links", to download a file containing your current license usage on GitHub Enterprise Server, click Export license usage.
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Navigate to GitHub.com.
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In the top-right corner of GitHub.com, click your profile photo, then click Your enterprises.
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In the list of enterprises, click the enterprise you want to view.
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In the enterprise account sidebar, click Settings.
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In the left sidebar, click Enterprise licensing.
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In the left sidebar, click License.
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Under "Enterprise Server Instances", click Add server usage.
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Upload the JSON file you downloaded from GitHub Enterprise Server.
