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O365 E1 and iOS mobile Basic Editing
I'm in the same situation, having multiple technicians I intended to work exclusivley browser based and on mobile devices, but I'm not able to fulfill this currently, without an E3 licenses, which brings the full Office 2016, that I wanted to remove in the first place.
Eithe they update their pages, or make editing on mobile devices available. An E2 license might also be an option I guess.
Apologies for reviving this thread, but rather than starting a new one.
The challenge comes in the footnote of the Microsoft article:
The non-qualifying plans listed above, don't come with a license for the Office desktop apps, so if you have one of these plans you can only view and not edit any documents you save to Office 365 services such as OneDrive for Business and SharePoint team sites. To edit Office files you saved to these services, you must have a subscription to one of the qualifying Office 365 Business, Education, Nonprofit, or Government plans, and your Office 365 admin must have assigned you an Office license.
AN E1 user would be able to edit if he/she stored his/her documents outside of Office 365. Having just started our deployment, we are running into this limitation as it conflicts directly with our implementation of Intune, which restricts users from downloading documents to locations other than ODFB or SharePoint Online. This really limits the usability of an E1 license on mobile.
Microsoft should revisit their licensing strategy in light of the security concerns many companies have and are implementing Intune (or other mobile application management solutions) for their users.