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Use of the Office apps

Microsoft 365 Apps for business is included in the Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business Premium licenses, and all the use rights for the users are exactly the same as described in the Microsoft 365 Apps section.

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Licensing for virtual desktops

Users licensed with Microsoft 365 Business Premium may access Windows 10/11 Enterprise virtual desktops running on the Azure Virtual Desktop service. Learn more in the Purchasing Azure Virtual Desktop section. In addition, organizations may deploy Microsoft 365 Apps via Shared…

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Using Windows

Microsoft 365 Business Premium licenses include rights to Windows 10 or 11 Pro if you have devices running Windows 7 Professional, Windows 8 Pro, or Windows 8.1 Pro. You don’t have any rights to any other edition of Windows –…

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Combining licenses

Organizations can combine the Microsoft 365 Business plans up to a limit of 300 users. However, it’s not entirely clear from Microsoft’s public documentation whether that means you can purchase 300 x Microsoft 365 Business Standard licenses AND 300 x…

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MICROSOFT 365 PLANS FOR SMB USERS

Microsoft 365 plans with the word “Business” in them are aimed at small and medium businesses with up to 300 users. This section is useful to understand how licenses may be combined.

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Availability of Office 365 plans

All of the Office 365 plans are available through CSP, including all the (no Teams) variants. Office 365 F3 was removed from the EA and MPSA in the August 2023 Product Terms, and the (no Teams) SKUs have not been…

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On-premises use rights

The Office 365 E1, E3 and E5 plans include rights to access licensed on-premises Exchange, SharePoint and Skype for Business Servers as shown below. These rights are available however a customer has purchased their licenses. There are no on-premises use…

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From SA licenses 

These are some From SA licenses available to move customers with active Software Assurance from on-premises licenses to Office 365, and you can see some examples in the table below: Note that from February 1, 2024 new customers cannot buy…

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Add-on licenses (To-cloud)

he Office 365 To-cloud Add-on User SLs are mainly available through the Enterprise Agreement but the last row, marked by a * is a special Add-on license only available through Open Value and Open Value Subscription agreements where an organization-wide…

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