One Drive, One Drive for Business, One Note and Licensing??

Hello all,

Sorry if this is a trivial question - but I am looking for a little bit of clarification in our environment.

We have an E3 subscription, but moslty only make use of Office Pro Plus and Exchange Online. As a result we have a majority of the licensing turned off. We are looking to expand the use of One Note with a segment of our user base to allow them to use it on any one of their devices.

With this - when you have personal notebook that will be accessible from your PC, iPhone, iPad, etc - where is this stored by default? One Drive? One Drive for Business?

Would I need to turn on any licensing for this or would Office Pro Plus and Exchange Online suffice? Do I need to enable sharepoint licensing?

Thanks

Steve

admin

office 365

onedrive

Cian Allner
Oct 16, 2017
Stephen Bell wrote:

So to clarify, if we want to give additional users ability to use One Note across multiple devices - being licensed for Office Pro Plus will satisfy that requirement?
Correct, E3 comes with OneNote and yes that applies to Office 365 ProPlus, which is an included app. You can confirm this here - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office-applications-service-description.aspx. Also, you will see mentioned E3 supports "OneNote client access to notebooks on SharePoint Server, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Office 365".

Also, just to add, https://support.office.com/en-us/article/OneNote-Online-Help-7e497458-6bf3-4de3-a362-f83636f0d5b9, will be enabled via the https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office-online-service-description.aspx licence I assume.

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Deleted
Oct 16, 2017
I think you need more to give more info as maybe you would not need E3 but Business premium. You can save a one note to Onedrive or ondrive for business but also to SharePoint or any other cloud platform. Onenote is a seperate app and free to download.
- Steven Collier
  MVP
  Oct 16, 2017
  Yes, to be sensible you would need to provide OneDrive to be the storage location for the OneNote files. You can store them on a local machine, but then it wouldn't be available on mobiles, other devices etc.
  
  OneNote actually has quite weird licensing, but s you have Office Pro Plus it's all included.
  - Stephen Bell
    Iron Contributor
    Oct 16, 2017
    Maybe I should clarify - we aren't obtaining E3 for this problem. We already have E3 and are looking to utilize more of what we are paying for.
    
    So to clarify, if we want to give additional users ability to use One Note across multiple devices - being licensed for Office Pro Plus will satisfy that requirement?
    
    Thanks

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