office 2016 - office 365 proplus

[minimoo]

Hello,

 

Just trying to work out what we are best to deploy on site, when looking at moving form office 2013.

 

On school owned PC's, do we have the option to do office 2016 + office 365 proplus - or as it's not fixed users on the PC - is it just 2016 that's the option ? (with office 365 proplus being what students would run at home)

[Cazale]

Office 2016 on site (should be covered with your volume license?), and maybe hand out Office 365 Education for staff and students (you should get Office Student Pro Plus as a free bolt on, although you may have to ask your license supplier).

[minimoo]

I just vaguely recall our license supplier saying that i'd probably want to do 0365 in both cases for features - whereas i'm not sure that's actually the case. i.e. i think it's VLK office 2016 and then 365 education if you have the benefit activated for students/tsaff.

[Cazale]

As far as I'm aware Office 2016 IS Office 365, or at least, the core software is?

 

I know there are things like OneDrive storage, Yammer, 5 installs, etc with Office 365, but I'd assumed these things were effectively account upgrades (so from a software point of view it didn't matter if you used Office 365 or Office 2016). For example, I know many schools are making use of these features while still using Office 2013 (let alone 2016).

 

I've used Office 2016 and Office 365, and honestly haven't noticed a single difference (apart from Sway being included in Office 365, but you can download that from the Microsoft Store for free anyway).

 

I'd be genuinely interested to hear from someone who does know if there are any benefits of installing O365 over 2016 (at a software or licensing level, rather than features).

[Arthur]

As far as I'm aware Office 2016 IS Office 365, or at least, the core software is?

You're right. Office 365 ProPlus is basically Office 2016 ProPlus but tied to an Office 365 subscription.

 

For example, if you download the free copy of Office 365 ProPlus through the Office 365 Education portal you will need to sign into your Office 365 account to activate the software (assuming your account has already been assigned the appropriate license).

 

If you download Office 2016 through the VLSC you would normally activate the software via your KMS server and not Office 365.

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg702619.aspx

 

What's different about Office 365 ProPlus?

 

Even though Office 365 ProPlus is a lot like other versions of Office, there are differences.

 

Licensing differences

• Office 365 ProPlus is offered as a monthly subscription. If you cancel your subscription, Office 365 ProPlus goes into reduced functionality mode. In reduced functionality mode, users can open and view existing Office files, but users can’t use most of the other features of Office 365 ProPlus. For more information, see Overview of licensing and activation in Office 365 ProPlus.
  
• To use Office 365 ProPlus, a user must have an Office 365 account and have been assigned a license. If you, as the Office 365 administrator for your organization, remove a user’s license or account, the user’s installations of Office 365 ProPlus go into reduced functionality mode.
  
• Even though users don’t need to be connected to the Internet all the time to use Office 365 ProPlus, users must connect to the Internet at least once every 30 days. This is so that the status of their Office 365 subscriptions can be checked. If users don’t connect within 30 days, Office 365 ProPlus goes into reduced functionality mode. After users connect to the Internet and their subscription status is verified, all the features of Office 365 ProPlus are available again.
  
• Users can install Office 365 ProPlus on up to five different computers with a single Office 365 license. For example, a user can have Office 365 ProPlus installed on a computer in the office, on a laptop to use when traveling, and on a home computer.