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DonavanLane
Copper Contributor
Dec 06, 2018

Microsoft 365 Business need RDS and Shared Computer Activation

We’ve sold about 150 Microsoft 365 Business licenses already… and I went to provision 28 users of M365B for a customer and had to abort and put them back on Office 365 Enterprise E3.  Turns out M365B...
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Alexandre Labelle
Brass Contributor
Mar 19, 2019
You have been heard ! I just received this message from the Message Center: We are excited to announce the availability of Office Shared Computer Activation (SCA) for Microsoft 365 Business Subscribers. Shared computer activation allows you to deploy Office 365 Business client to a computer in your organization that is accessed by multiple users. This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 49106. SCA will begin rolling out mid-April and completed worldwide by the end of May.
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    DonavanLane
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 19, 2019

    Alexandre Labelle - Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!   That's amazingly great news!  The reason why is many customers don't need the higher seat count that E3 brings, and to allow them to install M365B on an RDS box enables a whole new group of customers to use the M365B security offering with ATP (Phishing Attacks) and Azure Information Plan 1 (Encryption of email).

     

    The world is a better place now Alexandre!

     

    Cheers!

     

    Donavan

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    Deleted
    Mar 19, 2019
    Big news! I didn't receive any notification, probably because I don't have M365 Business in my tenant. Any blog posts that mention this? Functionality wise it's a great thing, even though M365 E3 is losing an important differentiator now.
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        Deleted
        Mar 20, 2019

        Alexandre LabelleI'm afraid that link isn't providing me the direct info, probably because M365B is not in my tenant.

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      Red Flag
      Iron Contributor
      Apr 30, 2019

      DeletedI agree - it seems MSFT has made a silent announcement. Ashanka Iddya don't you think - from B SKU marketing point of view - it should be rather something a bit louder… Re AAD P1 - it's extremely difficult to explain what 's inside the B SKU in context of AAD. "There is a subset of functionalities" - it's what we say. Then the customer asks - does it mean that MFA is included… 

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    Robby Claessens
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 16, 2019

    Alexandre Labelle 

     

    Still no official post to be found about this. I have a M365 B and i'm unable to find this ID or in the M365 Roadmap. Has this been false news?

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      Ashanka Iddya
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      Apr 16, 2019
      Hi Robby, we'll be making an official announcement via a blogpost shortly. The message centre post was to give existing customers atleast a 30 day heads up as per our change management policy.
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        DonavanLane
        Copper Contributor
        Apr 19, 2019

        Ashanka Iddya Is Shared Computer Activation now available yet for Microsoft 365 Business?  We are holding orders for about 900 licenses for many customers that are waiting to place an order by April 30 to take advantage of the Microsoft 365 Business Shift Campaign - 15%.

         

        Ideally we would like to get them provisioned in this next week.

         

        Your help would be greatly appreciated.

         

        Donavan

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