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Which AD account activates office on a shared workstation?
Hi Keith,
For your scenario of Shared Activation is only possible on E3 or E5 Plans that have Office 365 Pro Plus.
I advise to see those options for those users.
Here you have more information https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-of-shared-computer-activation-for-office-365-proplus
Ok what happens if the machine was imaged with Product ID="O365BusinessRetail" ?
What happens if shared activation was not specified in the office configuration.xml file?
The first person to use office will end up being claimed as the "owner" correct? Then if that person ever jumps past 5 computers, IT will be involved going into the O365 admin panel to remove devices from that user? Is that the issue here?
We obviously do not need hosted Exchange or Lync(Skype for Business). Our only goal here is to get everyone on the same version of Office that is updated. Its a pain to support 3 different versions (2010, 2013, 2016). We would just like to support the current version and give the users the ability to stay current.
I'd like to add onto yesterday's unanswered post...
Is there a computer licence for Office 365? Is it possible to use a Computer Active Directory Account (like you can for Wifi Enterprise WPA2 Radius into IAS)?
Back in the day we would just get the OEM licence from Dell. The user would then be on that Office version for the lifetime of the machine (4 to 5 years). The problem is now you can only get Office 2016 OEM from Dell, or even retail. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but its the activation that is the issue. You can bind a product key 5 times I believe to an email address. That leads into a sticky situation creating fake email addresses outside of the organization (like companyofficeact1-5@gmail.com, companyofficeact6-10@gmail.com, companyofficeact11-15@gmail.com) which is an organizational nightmare. It was easier just to keep an Excel spreadsheet of the computer name and office key back when 2013 and earlier were the current version.
So to avoid all of that and stay up to date, that is why we want to roll out O365 on all of the machines our 170 users touch. What complicates it, is maybe 35% of those users have the ability to roam. And some that do may roam for a day, or sometimes fill in at another location for a few days (or weeks). I have one manager for example filling in at another location while someone is out on maternity leave. How would O365 licencing work in that respect?
How would it work for us in IT? We have O365BusinessRetail activated on our laptop and desktop. But what if we go to a remote location and work on another machine for a few hours?
Micrososft makes this more complicated than it needs be.
Hi Keith,
Is best practice is that you deploy the Office 365 ProPlus with Shared Activation, the Business plans are not compatible with your requirements.
