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Sharing one Microsoft account with Microsoft 365 Family. Simple but illegal?
Hello everybody, I have two friends (spouse) with an active Microsoft 365 Family subscription. Thus they could have separate accounts, they want to have everything in common "as before" (with an on premises Microsoft Office and simple POP3 email accounts). One Windows 10 account, shared Dropbox, two email addresses (alias in this case) in the same Outlook and so on... on one PC, one laptop, two smartphones. The easiest would be to share a Microsoft account. As a first name I could simply set "Oliva and Michael". So basically everything should work fine - right? Even if they use the devices at the same time? But... in terms of licensing, strictly speaking, that is not allowed - right? Or at least in the gray area since they have enough licenses (6 in total) due to the "Family" license. Has someone successfully run such a constellation? Thank you, greetings Martin1.9KViews0likes1CommentUnderstanding Office update channels, Changing for 365 Home or 2019 Retail
Hello everybody, the many update channels and the resulting version fragmentation are a little bit confusing. And yes I know, I'm throwing Microsoft 365 and Office 2019 products together, but basically it's all the same soup. If I understand it correctly, the different update channels like "Beta, Current, Monthly Enterprise, Semi-Annual Enterprise...) are basically only for "Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise" and "Microsoft 365 Apps for business", whereby these work also with the other 365 Business and even for the Home Plans. The "PerpetualVL2019" is the only channel for Office Professional Plus 2019 and Office Standard 2019. Office Home & Business 2019, on the other hand, will be installed with the "Current Channel" (formerly "Monthly Channel"). Since Office Home & Business 2019 does not get any new features (at least that is the case most of the time... there are sometimes minor exceptions) it makes in my opinion no sense to choose the monthly channel and thus unnecessarily generate data volume and and kind of crazy changing (practically replacing) the Version every month. A change to e.g. the Semi-Annual Enterprise channel works fine. But, I assume that is also not officially supported (or maybe even prohibited license-wise?), like changing the channel for the 365 Business or Home plans - right? Does anyone have practical experience with changing the update channels for Office 2019 Retail or 365 Single or Family? As I said, in tests it worked perfectly, but what is in the long run? Thanks for reading and every answer! Greetings, Martin2.1KViews0likes1Comment
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