Shared Computer Activation for Office in Microsoft 365 Business

Griffin CashI have already tried installing both E3 and Business premium packages last week. Both even showed up in the installed programs list in Windows 10.  However it did not allow both licensed groups to authenticate, only E3.  Also we have tried this with RDS as well and never could get it to work reliably there either. Followed very specific instructions from MS.  I had some consultants try the same thing and they also could not get it to work. That's why I was excited about this post as it potentially meant Microsoft was going to finally allow shared computer use for rightfully licensed people across different license groups.  But it looks like my hopes have been quickly dashed.  This was never a problem when using the standalone apps and volume licenses.  O365 in this respect has taken a step backwards.

There shoudn't be anything fancy necessary to allow this.  If I open Excel, it should just look at my license and see that I'm licensed for Excel and I'm not over my limit of devices and allows me to run it.  But instead, I think Microsoft looks at the package level installed and probably stops at the first one it finds in the registry of the computer.  If no match, then it errors out.