Office 365 ProPlus free for staff from 1st dec 2014

[Edu-IT]

What is the best way to bulk assign Office 365 ProPlus for Students and Office 365 ProPlus for Faculty?

 

Edit: Is it OFFICESUBSCRIPTION_FACULTY and OFFICESUBSCRIPTION_STUDENT?

These SKU's don't work. bah!

[drewp]

Part Numbers appear to be -

 

S2Y-00002 O365ProPlusOpenStudents ShrdSvr ALNG SubsVL OLV NL 1Mth Acdmc Stdnt w/Faculty

S3Y-00004 O365ProPlusOpenFclty ShrdSvr ALNG SubsVL OLV E 1Mth Acdmc AP AddOn toOPP

 

Some resellers/ditributers might not be able to add this to an OVS without charging £0.01 per licence as they cant sell something at a zero cost in their systems...

[Edu-IT]

Right, I've checked through Powershell and OFFICESUBSCRIPTION_FACULTY and OFFICESUBSCRIPTION_STUDENT are correct.

 

Do I need to remove a current license in order to be able to apply these?

[nicholab]

How do you know weather student or teacher

[rush_tech]

We can see our licenses in the Microsoft service centre how long does it take to have them available in our portal?

[Edu-IT]

Ours became available instantly once I'd gone in to MVLS and completed the link with the tenant.

 

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How do you know weather student or teacher

How do you mean?

[nicholab]

Is there an easy way to pick up form the synced information whether it is a Teacher or Student licence you want to assign.

[rush_tech]

Ours became available instantly once I'd gone in to MVLS and completed the link with the tenant.

 

You know what my next question is don't you? How do you complete the link with the tenant? I've looked everywhere

Edited December 5, 2014 by rush_tech

[Edu-IT]

Ours became available instantly once I'd gone in to MVLS and completed the link with the tenant.

 

You know what my next question is don't you? How do you complete the link with the tenant? I've looked everywhere

https://www.microsoft.com/Licensing/servicecenter/OSA/AgreementSearch

 

OR at the top of MVLS, do you see Online Service Activation link?

[Edu-IT]

This is really odd. Although Powershell complains that the tenant:OFFISCESUBSCRIPTION_STUDENT is invalid, it is assigning the correct licenses. Same for Faculty.

[the_dude]

I get this all the time too, but it works....whatever.

 

Set-MsolUserLicense : Unable to assign this license because it is invalid.

[sonofsanta]

So... anyone cleverer than me know how to use Powershell to add the new tenant:OFFICESUBSCRIPTION_FACULTY licence to everyone who has the tenant:STANDARDWOFFPACK_FACULTY licence assigned? Before I start cludging my way through with CSVs, which will invariably involve missing someone...

 

Nevermind, worked it out myself replace the word "tenant" with your school's tenancy. You can check your licence SKUs with Get-MsolAccountSku

Connect-MSOLService -Credential $adminCredential

$AccountSkuId = "tenant:STANDARDWOFFPACK_FACULTY"
$OfficeSkuId = "tenant:OFFICESUBSCRIPTION_FACULTY"

# get users
$users = Get-MsolUser -all | where {$_.isLicensed -eq "True" -and $_.licenses[0].accountskuid.tostring() -eq $AccountSkuId}

# assign licence for each user
foreach ($user in $users) {
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $user.userprincipalname -AddLicenses $OfficeSkuId
Write-Host $user.displayname "granted Office licence" -f green
}

Edited December 10, 2014 by sonofsanta

[Ant]

Can anyone confirm that the number of faculty licences we are entitled to is limited to our FTE? I've not seen this mentioned anywhere.

 

We have some part time staff meaning our FTE doesn't equate to the total number of staff we have working here.

[Steve21]

Can anyone confirm that the number of faculty licences we are entitled to is limited to our FTE? I've not seen this mentioned anywhere.

 

We have some part time staff meaning our FTE doesn't equate to the total number of staff we have working here.

 

Been having that discussion this morning with our reseller apparently Microsoft have queried why we want 2-3x faculty licenses vs FTE, but after I said about things like room groups, equipment list blah blah they said they'd go back to them and it shouldn't be a problem.

 

Will let you know once it's confirmed either way.

 

Steve

[Ant]

Been having that discussion this morning with our reseller apparently Microsoft have queried why we want 2-3x faculty licenses vs FTE, but after I said about things like room groups, equipment list blah blah they said they'd go back to them and it shouldn't be a problem.

 

Will let you know once it's confirmed either way.

 

Steve

 

Thanks Steve, that would be great.

[sonofsanta]

Can anyone confirm that the number of faculty licences we are entitled to is limited to our FTE? I've not seen this mentioned anywhere.

 

We have some part time staff meaning our FTE doesn't equate to the total number of staff we have working here.

 

Not at all. My FTE is 115, I just added 180 licences.

 

I did have that conversation with my reseller early on, before we were both on the same page. Things cleared up once I sent the part code over and he realised it wasn't on his price list for this month; once he got it sorted with MS his end we were good to go.

 

Our number, like yours, is higher due to shared mailboxes and staff that have left but are only disabled/not yet deleted.

[Ant]

Thank you @sonofsanta I've gone back to my reseller about this.

[Wubbalubbadub]

So just to ask how do i go about getting my licences now that they are meant to be free? Do i need to phone my re-seller?

[ellsandell]

So just to ask how do i go about getting my licences now that they are meant to be free? Do i need to phone my re-seller?

 

 

Yes, you need to go to ask your reseller to add the licenses to your agreement.

[Wubbalubbadub]

Yes, you need to go to ask your reseller to add the licenses to your agreement.

 

 

I see.. What a faff! haha.

[Boredguy]

Its a case of talk to your reseller and provide your current License Agreement ID and number of licenses you require

 

Wait for confirmation e-mail from the MSVLC to say that you have Online Services Activation pending

Login to the MSLVC centre and click the link next to "Do you have Online Service Orders that need activation"

Follow the on screen steps which will then get you to login to Office 365 and pre fill in the License key.

Once done, you can then assign the ProPlus license to your users either via powershell or the website (which if you don't have too many is just as easy)

[gshaw]

Requested mine via email a couple of days ago, reseller (Phoenix Software) straight on the case and the new licenses appeared in the Office 365 Admin portal yesterday without even needing to click an activate link

 

Time to make the iPad and Mac users very happy!

[jaminben]

Requested mine via email a couple of days ago, reseller (Phoenix Software) straight on the case and the new licenses appeared in the Office 365 Admin portal yesterday without even needing to click an activate link

 

We use Phoenix and ours haven't appeared yet but its good news that they're aware and can do it.

[drewp]

Does anyone have Ingram Micro UK as their distributor?

 

They don't appear to want to talk with our reseller about adding the licenses to our OVS...

[Boredguy]

Our supplier appears to be using Ingram Micro now instead of Westgate, and it took a few pokes and 10 days from our original request to finally get the license assigned to our account.