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Copper Contributor

Aug 13, 2018

Office 365 ProPlus on Server 2016 RDS

We are running RDS servers on Server 2016 with Office 365 ProPlus subscriptions. After January 14, 2020 this is not supported anymore according to this blog post. https://techcommunity.microsoft...

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Dennis Hogewoning

Brass Contributor

Aug 13, 2018

Hi Theis,

Did you know that if your users are licensed with a ProPlus license in Office 365 you can also install Office with SharedOfficeActication on your terminal servers. This way every user logging in on a terminal server and start Office will activate against their E3 license without consuming any the 5 licenses you get per user.

See this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-of-shared-computer-activation-for-office-365-proplus

Let me know if you need any help with this.

Theis Sølvkjær
Copper Contributor
Aug 13, 2018
Hello Dennis,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, this is how we install Office already.
- Tamir Levy
  Microsoft
  Dec 30, 2018
  I hope you've seen this:
  
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2018/09/06/helping-customers-shift-to-a-modern-desktop/
  
  "Office 365 ProPlus will also continue to be supported on Windows Server 2016 until October 2025."
  - Firoz1723
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 30, 2020
    Tamir Levy Is there specific credential configuration to setup for o365 in server 2016 RDS?