Office 365 Education & ProPlus Licensing on Shared User Logins

[Scorpio]

Hi All

 

How does this work when you have multiple users on a Mandatory Profile using the same account login and Office 365 as titled... im aware that office 365 is free for the pupils if you buy ProPlus for all the faculty and Staff, so have these questions which im unsure about:

 

1. how does the activation work and how does Office 365 behave when multiple users are logged into the same account ?

2. Ive read mandatory profiles do not allow the office to activate and keeps asking to login as its a read only profile, is there anyway around this ? Possible activating as normal profile but then changing to mandatory profile afterwards? How does this behave or is it even possible. ?

3. How does Microsoft know you have licensed all your staff, is it based on the trust system? I assume if the staff member doesn't use office then they will not require a license as they wont be able to access it anyway without a valid account even if they use a PC with it on.

 

Any pointers or advice would be great.

 

Thanks.

 

Scorpz

Edited August 24, 2017 by Scorpio

[NicholasEsping]

Here is a link explaining how activation works on a shared computer.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Overview-of-shared-computer-activation-for-Office-365-ProPlus-836f882c-8ff6-4f19-8b24-0212e0111c94

[Scorpio]

Thanks but isn't this the other way around - i.e. multiple users on 1 computer, not 1 user on multiple computers at the same time which is our predicament ?

 

Scorpz

[NicholasEsping]

If that's the case I think this is what you are looking for device based activation. http://boards.microsoft.com/public/item/143236?token=f55452094b

[Scorpio]

Ah ok, that would work didnt know there was such thing, how does that work for Exchange Online, I will have a read but if anyone uses device activation for office 365 let us know how it is, but also if using user based exchange online too, as id be interested in how that would work license wise.

 

Thanks.

[NicholasEsping]

Personally I would try to get away from the mandatory profile and create accounts for all of your students but if that is not possible in your situation I would assume you would want to exclude outlook when you create the proplus installer so you don't have students trying to set that up and just force them to use the web browser to sign into their email accounts.

[Scorpio]

Yes, will need to tweak the install, that can be done from the XML file cant it, IIRC ?

 

Cheers

[NicholasEsping]

Yes you will just need to add this line in the XML to exclude outlook and you can modify it to get rid of any other apps you don't want.