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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

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?
  - Tamir Levy
    Microsoft
    Jul 02, 2020
    Hi Firoz1723
    
    No special credentials are needed
    
    when you service your host you need to install Office with admin rights + Shared Activation configured in the XML file.
    
    afterwards every user who logon to the session will be able to use \ activate Office.