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Tobey Davies's avatar
Tobey Davies
Brass Contributor
Nov 22, 2017

Office 365 "Office Online" license donot make sence

Hi all

I have Office 365 E5 subscription.

I want to know what is the difference between the user who have "Office Online" license and the user who do not have "Office Online " license. 

AFAIK, although the user who donot have the "Office Online" license they also can open the office file stored in sharepoint online site by online.

So, Is it ok to recognize that the existence of an office online license is meaningless?

Any help will be appreciated…

 

Regards,

Tobey

office 365
sharepoint

3 Replies

  • Salvatore Biscari's avatar
    Salvatore Biscari
    Silver Contributor
    Nov 23, 2017

    Office Online has a free version, which is available to everyone, and a licensed version, which is included in Office 365. (I don't know the difference, if any...)

    See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Online

  • VasilMichev's avatar
    VasilMichev
    MVP
    Nov 23, 2017

    Afaik the functionality is already included in the SPO plans, so simply disabling Office Online doesn't do much. There are plans however that do not include SPO, for which disabling Office Online should disable access to the Office apps.