Activation and Licensing of Office 365

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My scenario is this:

I want to have the Office 365 click to run desktop product (2013 office products) rolled out to all my computers in the network, lets say I have 25 for example. I understand I can use the click to run deployment tool using the /download and the /configure

switches with an appropriate xml file to download and install office 365 pro plus click to run on a machine. So, lets say I do this for 25 computers (start up script or something).

questions:

1. the administrative account (me or another admin in our AD) is the installing user, this user would also have to have a valid subscription to office 365 as I understand it. when a user logs into windows and opens Office products, who has activated that

product - the user or the administrator who installed it? I would assume the latter

2. in our environment of 25 computers, from what I have read and understood about how activation and licensing works, it is not possible for a user to activate O365 on more than 5 devices at a time, but I need to install this on 25 machines,

none of our users are local administrators which is why we will go for the E3 plan to get the download and install through our local network, the installing account will be 1 admin account, so how does this work out when that admin account

has installed on a 6th and more machine?

3. our environment is a fairly hot-desking environment, and one which requires access to the office products offline (another reason we will go for the E3 plan so we can install the desktop click to run for offline use). sometimes a single user may

need to borrow 5 or more of our laptops to take offsite (training company), what happens when multiple users are logging onto a single machine - again, im under the impression the product will be fine provided the installing user (the admin) has an active

subscription with O365.

 

my biggest area of concern I suppose is what is going to happen when we roll this out to more than 5 computers, is the administrator account for the office 365 subscription a special account which waives this 5 installation limit? if not, then how do the

bigger business roll this out to many more machines, because 25 is really not large at all, and 5 devices is pathetic IF its restricted to that for the admin installing account...

my issue is also important to note that none of our users are local admins, they do not have the rights to install anything on their machine so this has to be automated through our local network, I also cant make any one particular user a local admin of

any one particular laptop due to the hot-desking scenario, if I made everyone a local admin I may as well just throw away security all together and put the entire company's users into the domain admins group - this is not a solution by the way.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg982959.aspx

many thanks

Steve

 

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