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O365 E1 and iOS mobile Basic Editing
Hi Ivan.
We have the same questions. For example, our students on Education E1 iPads can't edit anything using the iPad apps. But I when I looked at this document. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-you-can-do-in-the-Office-apps-on-an-Android-iOS-or-Windows-mobile-device-with-an-Office-365-plan-9ef8b63a-05fd-4f9c-bac5-29da046833ea?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US, it looks like any Education plan should be able to do basic editing on an iPad. But in fact, our users can't edit anything. They can't even edit a OneNote. We are on the tenant in Singapore and have 800 or so E3 licenses, but want our younger kids to use iPads and the E1 license. Any suggestions? I am positive this was marketed as basic editing at no cost on any tablet under 10 inch screen size.
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.
Our own experience is editing is not possible without a qualifying plan that comes with MS-Office.
