Introduction
What Office 365 business product or license do I have?
Applies To: Office 2016 Office for business Office 365 Small Business More...
There are several Office 365 for business plans that you or your organization can choose from when you sign up for one of Microsoft's cloud services. After your organization signs up for Office 365, the admin can assign different Office 365 licenses to each user account. The different licenses include different services, such as SharePoint Online and Skype for Business Online. See the different Office 365 for business plans.
What you need to know about assigning licenses to users in Office 365 for business
You need to be either a Global admin or a User management admin. For more information, see About Office 365 admin roles.
You can assign licenses to user accounts with Office 365 PowerShell.
Use these steps to add a license to an existing user account. Learn how to add a user account and assign a license at the same time
Some services, like Sway, are automatically assigned to users, and don't need to be assigned individually.
[Related: review of Microsoft Office 2016 for Windows]
Melbourne Information Solutions’ Bulenda also said that once an instance of Office 2016 is tied to a particular Microsoft account it cannot be transferred to another.
“This means that you cannot resell a PC with Office 2016 unless you also give out your Microsoft Live username and password details,†he said, showing CRN a help chat with Microsoft to support the claim.
Chapman said that using a Microsoft account links the customer to the cloud, potentially exposing company information to the internet: “Multiple users using the same MS Live ID in a business - for activation reasons - end up getting joined by the cloud sharing/exposing company information, recent documents, wireless network security keys and who knows what else between everyone using the same ID.â€
Microsoft forum commenter elevativerick wrote that the restriction defeats the purpose of OEM licences: “The whole point of licensing [at] the machine purchase is to cover the DEVICE not a PERSON. That's what OEM licensing is supposed to be.â€
“This is a huge problem. I can't activate these machines on a one-by-one basis, no sane IT department would undertake the task of creating discrete Live accounts for each and every new machine they get,†elevativerick wrote.
CRN contacted Microsoft regarding the issue, but had not received a response at the time of writing.
On the community forums Hart’s frustrations are clear, with the problem now having cost him both time and money.
“I have now spent several hours on this, where it should have taken about 10 seconds to just enter the product key and have the product auto-activate. In fact, in this case, I lost so much time that I finally removed Office 2016 entirely, then went online last night and purchased a downloadable copy of retail Office 2013 that I could activate with a product key only. But I cannot charge my client for that software,†he said.
“Thanks to Microsoft, any profit I could have made on this computer sale has been eliminated, and I now have a Dell OEM Office 2016 product keycard sitting on my desk that cannot be installed anywhere without a MS account.â€
A Bit of IT’s Chapman said that small businesses simply cannot afford to bulk buy to get around the Office 2016 issue.
“Small businesses with less than 10 people are also never going to go down the other path of volume licensing at three times the price per seat, nor are they prepared to go from $100 per month ADSL to $1000 per month wireless IP to get enough bandwidth in areas where the options are limited at 3.5-4.5km from an exchange."
The latest version of Microsoft’s popular workplace suite was released in September.
Applies To: Office 2016 Office for business Office 365 Small Business More...
There are several Office 365 for business plans that you or your organization can choose from when you sign up for one of Microsoft's cloud services. After your organization signs up for Office 365, the admin can assign different Office 365 licenses to each user account. The different licenses include different services, such as SharePoint Online and Skype for Business Online. See the different Office 365 for business plans.
What you need to know about assigning licenses to users in Office 365 for business
You need to be either a Global admin or a User management admin. For more information, see About Office 365 admin roles.
You can assign licenses to user accounts with Office 365 PowerShell.
Use these steps to add a license to an existing user account. Learn how to add a user account and assign a license at the same time
Some services, like Sway, are automatically assigned to users, and don't need to be assigned individually.
[Related: review of Microsoft Office 2016 for Windows]
Melbourne Information Solutions’ Bulenda also said that once an instance of Office 2016 is tied to a particular Microsoft account it cannot be transferred to another.
“This means that you cannot resell a PC with Office 2016 unless you also give out your Microsoft Live username and password details,†he said, showing CRN a help chat with Microsoft to support the claim.
Chapman said that using a Microsoft account links the customer to the cloud, potentially exposing company information to the internet: “Multiple users using the same MS Live ID in a business - for activation reasons - end up getting joined by the cloud sharing/exposing company information, recent documents, wireless network security keys and who knows what else between everyone using the same ID.â€
Microsoft forum commenter elevativerick wrote that the restriction defeats the purpose of OEM licences: “The whole point of licensing [at] the machine purchase is to cover the DEVICE not a PERSON. That's what OEM licensing is supposed to be.â€
“This is a huge problem. I can't activate these machines on a one-by-one basis, no sane IT department would undertake the task of creating discrete Live accounts for each and every new machine they get,†elevativerick wrote.
CRN contacted Microsoft regarding the issue, but had not received a response at the time of writing.
On the community forums Hart’s frustrations are clear, with the problem now having cost him both time and money.
“I have now spent several hours on this, where it should have taken about 10 seconds to just enter the product key and have the product auto-activate. In fact, in this case, I lost so much time that I finally removed Office 2016 entirely, then went online last night and purchased a downloadable copy of retail Office 2013 that I could activate with a product key only. But I cannot charge my client for that software,†he said.
“Thanks to Microsoft, any profit I could have made on this computer sale has been eliminated, and I now have a Dell OEM Office 2016 product keycard sitting on my desk that cannot be installed anywhere without a MS account.â€
A Bit of IT’s Chapman said that small businesses simply cannot afford to bulk buy to get around the Office 2016 issue.
“Small businesses with less than 10 people are also never going to go down the other path of volume licensing at three times the price per seat, nor are they prepared to go from $100 per month ADSL to $1000 per month wireless IP to get enough bandwidth in areas where the options are limited at 3.5-4.5km from an exchange."
The latest version of Microsoft’s popular workplace suite was released in September.
Contact Info
Address:
http://www.office-setup.org/Office-2016-Business-License/
Huntsville
Alabama 35801
United States
Huntsville
Alabama 35801
United States
Tel:
18448330610
Website:
http://www.office-setup.org/Office-2016-Business-License/
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