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Today, the Office 365 Team is announcing updates to the Office 365 Enterprise K1 plan—designed to enable your frontline workers to do their best work with tools for schedule and task management, communications and community, training and onboarding, and identity and access management. Frontline workers are the heartbeat of many of the world’s largest industries, such as manufacturing, retail, healthcare and hospitality. They’re the people behind the counter, on the phone with customers, operating the production line, building products, and running the day-to-day operations. They are often the face of an organization to its customers. And as more companies invest in digital transformation, there’s a growing recognition of the importance of empowering frontline workers with modern productivity tools. The Office 365 Enterprise K1 plan has been expanded to include the following additional products: Microsoft StaffHub OneDrive for Business with 2 GB of cloud storage Skype for Business presence and instant messaging Microsoft Teams Office 365 Video Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow Learn more on Office Blogs.
Error Message 0x0 when trying to re-install Office 2019 on Mac Tahoe
Hello, I have a genuine Office Home & Student 2019 for Mac license, still listed in my Microsoft account under Services & Subscriptions and was added on March 30, 2022. Microsoft Support confirmed that my Office Home & Student 2019 license is genuine, valid, and should still be activatable. However, activation fails with error 0x0 immediately after entering my email. And the support argues that they ended their support years ago, that I should rather buy Office 2024. What makes me think this is not a local Mac issue is that Office stopped activating on my previous Mac (Big Sur) a few months ago, before I replaced it. I recently bought a new Mac and the exact same problem persists. My configuration: - MacBook Air M4 - macOS Tahoe - Office 16.78 (installed using the Microsoft-provided installer) - Office Home & Student 2019 perpetual license What I have already tried: - Reinstalling Office completely - Installing version 16.78 specifically recommended by Microsoft's support - Running the official Microsoft License Removal Tool - Removing Office containers and activation data - Restarting the Mac - Signing in with the Microsoft account that owns the license At this point, I'm wondering whether this may be related to Microsoft's activation services for older perpetual Office 2019 licenses rather than a problem on the Mac itself. Has anyone else seen error 0x0 during activation of Office 2019 for Mac recently? Any clues? I wonder if there’s a chance to make pressure also, as Microsoft sells license that are supposed to be perpetual… Thank youOffice 365 License Reporting
This is not that straight forward, may be Microsoft is assuming any applied license has all services enabled in it, Which cannot be true everytime, I have following requirement to prepare a report showing user name user email user location user license info for each service enabled for e.g. username user-email location license user1@corp.com firstname.lastname@corp.com country/code E3-Teams,E3-Onedrive,E5-Exchange etc..O365 Enterprise Plans & Business Plans!! Which one works with EM+S??
Howdy Folks, Good Afternoon! As I am aware of this subject that Microsoft O365 Enterprise Plans only works with EM+S and not with the O365 Business Plans!! But still to let the customer know properly about it! Can I get a proper document on it that EM+S only works with Enterprise Plans!!Simplify O365 / M365 Licensing ?
1. I have about 4k users enabled for O/M 365 today 2. I am using group based licensing as of today to assign licenses to all users 3. Due to requirements in my org i already have upto 27 groups based on the services to be enabled for a group of users ? 4. I am finding it way to difficult and complex now to maintain and manage who has what 5. I worsen's when there is request for bulk users to be switched from category of license to another say from E3 to E5, i have ensure all E3 based groups user is a part of must also be switched to E5 based groups 6. Does Microsoft has any plans to come out with some UI to simplfy this or further more some PS way to make easier for admins to manage licensing BR, /HS
M365 Business Standard renewal surprise: new subscription required!
Hi all, I wanted to share a recent experience in case it helps other Microsoft 365 admins. For many years, I have renewed several Microsoft 365 Business Standard subscriptions by purchasing annual product keys through the Microsoft eCompany Store and redeeming them in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center using the Extend end date workflow. This year, the renewal process suddenly stopped working. Symptoms When redeeming a newly purchased Microsoft 365 Business Standard key, the Admin Center displayed: "The product key you've entered can't be applied to this subscription. Instead, use this product key to add licenses to a new subscription." At first glance, this made no sense because: The existing subscription was Microsoft 365 Business Standard. The newly purchased product was also Microsoft 365 Business Standard. The purchase source was the same Microsoft eCompany Store that had been used previously. The renewal process had worked successfully for years. I initially suspected: Region mismatch Billing platform changes Subscription corruption Invalid product keys None of those turned out to be the cause. Investigation A few interesting findings: The subscription was still under MOSA (Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement). The keys were valid and recognized by Microsoft. The same behavior occurred with multiple Business Standard subscriptions. Redeeming from a US IP address vs. a non-US IP address made no difference. After multiple support escalations, Microsoft eventually confirmed that the behavior is by design. Root Cause (per Microsoft Support) Microsoft advised that although the product name is still Microsoft 365 Business Standard, the newly purchased keys belong to a different offer variant than the existing subscription. As a result: The keys are valid. The subscription is valid. However, the new keys cannot extend the existing subscription. The keys can only be used to create a new subscription. In other words, two products can both be called Microsoft 365 Business Standard while still being considered different offers internally. Workaround The Microsoft-recommended workaround was: Redeem the new product keys using Create Subscription. A new Microsoft 365 Business Standard subscription is created in the same tenant. Reassign users from the old subscription to the new one. Allow the old subscription to expire. The existing tenant, users, mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, domains, etc. remain unchanged. Only the underlying subscription providing the licenses changes. Feedback The frustrating part was not the technical workaround. The issue was that there was no obvious indication prior to purchase that a Business Standard key purchased today would not be able to extend a Business Standard subscription that had historically been renewed using identical-looking keys from the same source. The eventual answer from Microsoft was reasonable, but it took over a week, multiple escalations, and considerable investigation to determine that the behavior was actually expected. Question for the community Has anyone else encountered this recently with: Microsoft 365 Business Standard eCompany Store purchases MOSA subscriptions Retail/prepaid product-key renewals I'm particularly interested in whether others have seen this offer-compatibility issue and whether future renewals of the newly created subscription behave normally. Thanks!
