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Office 365 licenses for Staff
We are a small business - no common domain, AD or email addresses for individual staff.
We have a windows 10 laptop we want to share with a few staff to build stock spreadsheets, do some basic word processing etc.
They each have a Microsoft Account with their own private email address and phone number.
How do I purchase and assign an O365 Business License to each of them?
It seems I can purchase additional licenses, but there is no way to assign them
Thanks.
- To allow access to Office desktop apps on a single and be full compliance you will need to purchase a license that includes 'shared computer activation'. This will be M365 Business Premium or above. You can purchase these licenses from within the admin portal using the purchase services option from the Billing option there. They will need to be assigned a license and provided with a unique email/login from the tenant which they will need to use when they login to the device to uniquely identify them.
Hi Craig,
You will need to set up 365 for Business. You can find instructions here
After you have set up this tenant you can create email accounts for the users then assign the 365 business licenses to these users via the 365 admin center.
Something to keep in mind is that you will need at least 365 Business Standard licenses to download and use the desktop versions of Office. You can find a breakdown of the licenses here
