There’s a difference between having the Teams app installed on your desktop and being licensed for the Teams service giving you rights to arrange a meeting, for example. Historically, the Teams app was installed by default with the Microsoft 365…
Organizations can choose to deploy the Microsoft 365 Apps to a server and to deliver them to a user’s desktop from there. They could choose to install Windows locally and just deliver the apps from the server, or to deliver…
There are two options for licensing scenarios where users will share devices. Shared Computer Activation Shared Computer Activation (SCA) is used when a user is licensed for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, for example, and needs to log in with…
One of the benefits of the Microsoft 365 Apps compared to a traditional Office LTSC Professional Plus 2024 license is that new and updated features are provided on a regular basis. Organizations can control how often users get these new…
Both Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise and Microsoft 365 Apps for business suites are available as User SLs and allow licensed users to install and activate the familiar apps of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access and Publisher on up…
In April 2020, Microsoft renamed Office 365 ProPlus and Office 365 Business to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise and Microsoft 365 Apps for business, respectively. The Microsoft 365 Apps (previously known as the Office apps) can be installed locally on…
Customers who have made an organization-wide commitment to the on-premises products through either an Open Value Organization-Wide agreement or an Open Value Subscription agreement can purchase Add-on User SLs to license their users for the Online Services. These To-cloud Add-on…
There is no mechanism in the Open programs for reducing licenses; the payment for licenses is upfront, in full and a customer would simply not renew the license if they no longer wanted to access the service. Of course, customers…
Each Online Services license purchase is an individual event in the Open programs and that means that the price for each purchase is taken from the current price list and there is no notion of price protection for a particular…