Join a Microsoft Lists AMA on February 11, 9 AM PT
Microsoft Lists helps you optimize your productivity and save time by managing your information closely, critical for modernizing your classroom. You can use Lists as a standalone Microsoft 365 application or add Lists to your Microsoft Teams channel to collaborate with full functionality (Microsoft Lists is now a default option within Microsoft Teams for Education). Click here to check out the full announcement. Bring your questions and feedback about Lists to this Microsoft Lists 'Ask Microsoft Anything' (AMA) on February 11, 9-10 AM PT in the Microsoft 365 AMA discussion space. Members of the Lists team will be on hand to respond.
OVS-ES vs Microsoft 365 E3
Hello, We're taking the opportunity during these strange times to review our licensing agreements and decide whether we would be better off changing things around. However, I'm having trouble understanding exactly what is included in the Microsoft 365 E3 package. The details state that it includes Windows 10 and Server CALs, but does that mean that we could safely cancel our existing OVS-ES agreement and switch to licensing directly from Microsoft? In doing so, we would gain lots of management capabilities using InTune (and Endpoint Manager), but the cost would be so high that it will only work if we can offset it against not renewing our OVS-ES agreement. We already have Office 365 ProPlus included with our Office 365 A1 package, and recently switched to licensing Office using the shared computer activation feature, thereby foregoing our entitlement to Office 2019 ProPlus from the OVS-ES agreement. (There's a strange link here anyway.. I feel like we only get O365 ProPlus installation rights through O365 because of the OVS-ES agreement, though we would keep this benefit if switching to M365 E3 anyway so this seems elementary to me.) Why is MS Licensing so convoluted?! (Probably out of necessity, I know.. just makes it hard to properly compare options!)
