Office365 - Staff / Student Advantage Queries

[Manny-Tech]

We have recently had our staff / student advantage applied to our tenancy. I can now apply the license to our users. Before I release this to users I'd like to check the functionality of it.

 

I have managed to install the software from my O365 account onto a device (Win 7 Desktop), I have also signed into Office 2016 on said device. I was under the impression if a license was removed, or a user de-activated a device that the functionality of Office would be reduced on that advice; i.e. you can't save or edit documents, you can only do read only.

 

I have de-activated my device on my O365 account, however I can still do what I like on my Win 7 desktop, there is no reduced functionality. Is this expected? Does it take a certain amount of time before you get the prompts to activate it before you can use it again?

 

My biggest worry is I'm giving students access to five devices, they then leave but retain a free copy of Office.

[dblight]

It will require activation every 30 days