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Thanks for joining us today for an AMA on Microsoft 365 and Windows licensing. We appreciate your questions and feedback—and look forward to continuing the discussion on the Windows community!
- Is there an update site that identified what sku's are include in Office 365 G3 and EM+S G3
- Alan_Meeus
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Windows 365 will be generally available early August. Please go to www.microsoft.com/windows365 scroll down and subscribe to receive updates. Thanks for the question- Alan_MeeusHi Christian, sorry I answered the wrong question. I will have to follow-up with the office team, and ask them to answer your question. No one in the AMA knows the answer. So let me get back to you.
- Two questions. Is there a roadmap to include Windows 365 under the Microsoft 365 Sku? When will we see a Windows 365 GCC offering ?
- Will there be a Sku that includes Office 365 and Windows 365?
- Alan_MeeusWindows 365 will be generally available early August. Please go to www.microsoft.com/windows365 scroll down and subscribe to receive updates. Thanks for the question
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- I want to know the answers to the following 1. Microsoft unlocks certain tenant features when you have a single licence which includes said feature - However warn you that all users who make use of this feature must be licenced This is hard to keep track of for every individual feature because nothing is labelled, and you have no idea of knowing what feature pertains to what licence unless you are full-time Microsoft Licencing Expert - What is Microsofts official point of view on this? - Will a Audit smack us hard if we make mistakes on this specific point or is it okay to 'abuse' however discouraged
- Alan_MeeusWithin the Microsoft 365 admin center you can assign licenses to users or groups of users. That is also how you can un-assign licenses when a user changes position or leaves the company or organization that owns the license. Deleting a user would also free the license. The Microsoft 365 admin center is a good way to track licenses. I don’t know of a feature being licensed separate from the product or service. Does any feature come to mind that made you ask the question about licensing features?
- I'm specifically talking about features which are enabled once a licence is given Let me give an example: Azure AD Password Writeback is a feature currently ONLY available with Azure AD P1, you may have a tenant with 50 Business Premium licenced users and 50 Business Basic users - However those 50 Business Basic users are not licenced to be able to reset their passwords in the cloud and have it written back to on-premise - However once you enable the feature it's enabled for the ENTIRE tenant, hence you cannot control said feature I'm specifically asking what is your stance on this. As a Microsoft Partner (CSP and SPLA members) what is your stance on this?, are we mandated by licencing to limit such use, or is it okay, just discouraged based on other factors than legality?
- Hello everybody, we are not 100% sure if this is a technical issue or works as designed, so I leave it here so maybee some license or AAD or Intune expert could answer this... We are using hybrid AAD user accounts synced by AD Connect. Licensed with M365 E5. Sometimes user are getting temporarily disabled in out meta directory (e. g. for some weeks illness). The disablement gets synched to AAD and altough licenses are removed for the user in AAD. The associated device in Intune is falling to "Not Compliant" because of "Built-In Compliance" stating "enrolled user exists" and "has compliance policy assigned" is "Not Compliant". Until here I could agree, this is working as designed. But then the user comes back, get enabled again, this is synched to AAD and altough licenses get assigned. But the device stays in "Not Compliant". At the moment the help desk gets it fixed by removing primary user, sync device, set the same user as primary again and sync device again. Is this behaviour "as designed"? Is it a missbehaviour, maybee because of some special conditions (than I would open a case)? Does anybody else see this behaviour? Thanks in advance.
- Jason_LeznekHi, thank you for reaching out with this question. My best suggestion is to open a ticket with support and they can help troubleshoot and resolve the issue with you.
