Office 365 RDS licensing question

Dustin, take a look at this when you get a chance: http://blogs.technet.com/b/uspartner_ts2team/archive/2014/09/03/office-365-shared-computer-activatio...
It explains how the Pro Plus version can be installed in RDS/TS environment, and I get the feeling that it is the only version that can be installed that way.
It also notes that installing Office 365 Pro Plus on an RDS/TS machine does not take away from the 5 device cap.

Office 365 has nothing to do with RDS.
If a user has an Office 365 license then they can use that license wherever they log on from. So if the are using a RDS session on a server then they can use there Office 365 license there. Please note that an Office 365 license allows you to install the full suite on 5 devices and the RDS server would be one of these devices.
Connecting to the RDS server is entirely different. In order to connect they user or device must have a RDS license.
The 2 are unrelated.
I assume from the context of your question that you already have the RDS environment set up and working so it is as simple as installing the office 365 suite onto the RDS server and allowing the 3 users to use it.

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How many mailboxes can I have for my domain name in office 365 e3 license?

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Office 365 enterprise E3 plan fits organizations ranging in size from a single employee to unlimited number of users. You will get a 50 GB mailbox per user.
If you want to get more detail information about Offcie 365 Enterprise E3, refer to
http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/business/office-365-enterprise-e3-business-software-FX103030346.aspx .
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Office 365 Litigation Hold Questions

Our organization is going to Office 365 from Google Apps, and we were trying to figure out the best way to approach legal holds. First of all, I have heard two rumors that I couldn't find a specific answer for.
First, Is litigation hold being deprecated? I have seen claims from other users online saying that they receive this prompt, but we never received such a prompt and it seems to work fine.
Second, we also heard through a random vendor that license agreements only allow 15% of users in an organization to be on Litigation holds. I could not find an account of this anywhere online, either...wasn't sure if this is true.
If the two above criteria are true, what we want to do is have ALL users on our domain to have their email held for 1 year, regardless of if they delete it. Is the Litigation hold the proper option for this, or should we use In-Place
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Hi,
You might want to take a look at this blog post from The Exchange Team Blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/12/11/litigation-hold-and-in-place-hold-in-exchange-2013-and-exchange-online.aspx
"In Exchange 2013 and the new Exchange Online, we introduced In-Place Hold, which allows more flexibility in preserving your data. "
But you still can use the Litigation Hold in Exchange 2013 and Exchange Online.
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will be removed. We want to clarify that we do not plan to remove Litigation Hold from Exchange Online or Exchange 2013."
The "litigation hold is a deprecated feature" alert has been removed.
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Office 365: some basic questions

Hi,
I've read somewhere that Office 365 will offer unlimited storage via OneDrive.
If that's true, I'd like to sign up for an paying account.
I had a trial running some time ago for my private domain but didn't continue the trial.
What I'd like to have:
-unlimited storage for best price
-use my own domain in my mailaddress/outlook account => then I'd need a business account?
-share documents from onedrive to people who don't have a onedrive
Please advise.
J.
Jan Hoedt

Hi Jan,
Here are a few references for your question:
All Office 365 customers will get unlimited OneDrive storage at no additional cost, Microsoft has just announced this:
https://blog.onedrive.com/office-365-onedrive-unlimited-storage/
You can add a domain that you’re already using for email into Office 365 and use it with email and other services:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-your-domain-to-Office-365-ffdb2216-330d-4d73-832b-3e31bcb5b2a7?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
Of course, you can share a document to people for unauthenticated access, you can do this by creating a gest link.
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Office 365 Split domain question

Is it possible to run an on-premise Lync hosting 1 SIP domain, with on premise Exchange running a specific email domain say company1.com
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I am trying to get my head around this configuration, or if it's even possible.

It's documented by TechNet:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205157.aspx
For outside documentation, a lot of what I'm seeing is outdated, so TechNet may be your best source for up to date information.
And the answer to the DNS question is, it depends. If you're Office365 only for those sip domains, and on premises only for the other sip domain, it doesn't necessarily even need to be a hybrid deployment. That said, if it is and users can
cross from on premises to off, the DNS records should point at the on premises deployment:
"When creating DNS SRV records for hybrid deployments, the records, _sipfederationtls._tcp.<domain> and _sip._tls.<domain>, should point to the on premises Access Proxy."
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205403.aspx
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Office 365 general licence question

I am looking to provide a new service to a cluster of schools which will be separate to their every day work. This will be only for select users in about a dozen schools which will help with collaboration and communication for Head Teachers and the deputy
head.
The school have piloted Office 365 Education A3 plan but the service I will provide is going to be through my own company. My question is this. Would I apply for a education licences or as it's a service my company is going to offer would I still
have to pay for an enterprise or pro licence?
I hope that makes sense
Thanks in advance.

It sounds like you need to talk to MS Partner Support, since you will be selling/reselling/onselling/upselling ?
Resellers and hosters, have different MS agreements (partner agreements).
The typical "Retail" or "Volume" products, can't be on-sold, I think.
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Office 365 Group Policies question

We initially deployed Office 365 with updates turned off so about half of our users have an old version of Office 365. We want to now manage the updates using the new group policies for O365. I read this statement ...In
order for these four new policy settings to work, you will need to have at least the April 2014 build of Office 2013 Click-to-Run (Build 15.0.4605.1003) and download the latest Administrative templates files (ADMX/ADML).
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Does this mean that the version on the PC has to have at least the April 2014 build to use the policies? If that's true how would I go about updating the users who have automatic updates turned off. there are a couple of thousand users.
Yes.
Depending on how you deployed/deploy Office365ProPlus, and, the tools/techniques available to you in your environment, there are some options.
a) re-deploy Office365ProPlus to the computers. Use the latest build version.
b) check the relevant registry settings, and if correction is needed, deploy the correct registry settings.
These articles may help you to determine which of the multiple scenarios you have to deal with:
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/156/t/220142.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/modonovan/archive/2014/04/09/office-365-pro-plus-fails-to-update-or-fails-with-error-code-30088-27.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/4369357e-5de9-4755-8f2c-33ae948b14fb/manually-triggering-updates-in-office-2013?forum=officeitpro
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Steps to deploy Lync for users who own Office 365 E1/E2 licenses, but don't have Office 365 E3, using Office Deployment tool.

After many hours of debugging with Microsoft support the system to install the Lync Client silently can be done with a SINGLE LINE command. The steps to take are below. It should be an easy next step to put this as GPO installation since
it is a simple command.
Comments appreciated.
side question: Why is there no Lync 2013 or Lync Office 365 forum?
Basic steps to deploy Lync for users who own Office 365 E2 licenses, but don’t have Office 365 E3, using Office Deployment tool.
This also applies for other Office 365 service types where the full office suite download is not included. In April 2015 This was impossible to find online and not know by the Lync support team.
Steps are:
Download the Office deployment tool from
http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=36778 and extract it to a folder. For this
example we will use the \\server\sharename
location.
Extracting it creates a setup.exe file and it show a sample XML file.
2. Create XML file and give it a name such as LyncEntryRetail.xml
Note: The key is the productID that has to be the “LyncEntryRetail”. Other product IDs will download a version that needs another office 365 license. The productID “LyncRetail” needs an E3 license of Office 365.
<Configuration>
<Add SourcePath="\\server\sharename" OfficeClientEdition="32" >
    <Product ID="LyncEntryRetail">
      <Language ID="en-us" />
    </Product>
</Add>
</Configuration>
3. From the folder where you extracted the Office deployment tool, run the following command on the command prompt to download the source files and store them on the shared drive:
(on single line)
Setup.exe /download LyncEntryRetail.xml
(This is the name of the XML file created above)
One can also run the same on a server share by using UNC path names such as (on single line)
\\servername\sharename\Setup.exe /download
\\servername\sharename\LyncEntryRetail.xml
(This is the name of the XML file created above)
4. Run the following command on the command prompt on a machine where you want to install the software: (on single line)
\\servername\sharename\Setup.exe /configure
\\servername\sharename\LyncEntryRetail.xml
(This is the name of the XML file created above)
Once you are comfortable that it all works, you may want to edit the XML file if you want to have silent installation and add the following lines.
<Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
<Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" />
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Office 365 - Licensed

Technical Question
a. How the licensing work for office 365
b. How frequent the office 365 client will connect to microsoft (heartbeat of license)
c. How the office 365 client will be in-active ore removed in the Admin Console or Admin Dashboard
d. Let say the office 365 client NOT able to connect to microoft more than 1 YEAR ?
   1. the licensed will be removed ?
   2. What will be the impact in the Office 365 application , I'm still able to used word , excel , and soon ?
e. Let say the office 365 client NOT able to connect to microoft more than 1 YEAR ?
   1. the licensed will be removed ?
   2. What will be the impact in the Office 365 application , I'm still able to used word , excel , and soon ?
Please advise above inquiries for layman term to be more eassiet to me to understand ?
Robert

hello,
Office 365 is licensed per user subscription for one year. you can renew your subscription after the first year expired, if not than you do not have Access to Office 365 on Microsoft datacenter.
for more Details, you can download the online Service use rights document from this link:
http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/DocumentSearch.aspx?Mode=3&DocumentTypeId=31
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/compare-microsoft-office-products-FX102898564.aspx
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Office 365 E3 and Office E4 differences

Hi,
What are the differences between Office 365 E3 and Office 365 E4? Any link for this?
What about the Business Intelligence services any differences between E3 and E4?
Thanks in advance

Here is the plan description of Office 365 Enterprise E3 and Office 365 Enterprise E4:
Office 365 Enterprise E3:
http://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-enterprise-e3-business-software
Office 365 Enterprise E4:
http://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-enterprise-e4-business-software
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Office 365 ProPlus Activation Issues

Issue Resolved:
After adding all of the Office 365 URL's and Address Ranges to our internet filters exception list activation worked.
Hi Everyone
I'm preparing for a deployment of Office 365 ProPlus using the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) and having trouble getting Office to activate after installation. Using my custom .xml file, I'm able to install only Office products that are needed without
issue using a Group Policy start-up script. It is necessary for me to do this because none of the users in my environment have local administrator rights and cannot install Office on their own using Click-to-Run. Installing with a start-up script
uses the System account to circumvent that issue. Upon first launch of Office 365 ProPlus I'm prompted to enter my email address and password for activation and promptly receive the error "There is a problem with your account. Please try again
later."
I've verified that an Office 365 ProPlus license has been provisioned for my account through our portal and have ADFS running without issue. Here's where things start to get strange... In testing, I added myself as a local administrator to my desktop
and downloading/installed the Click-to-Run from our Office portal. Upon launching Office for the first time it was activated automatically and the portal showed that a license was used.
As of right now I'm at a bit of a loss as to why I can't activate Office using valid credentials with proper licenses provisioned when installing with the ODT but it auto activated when using Click-to-Run. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
See below for a copy of my configuration.xml
<Configuration>
<Add SourcePath="PATH TO OFFICE INSTALL FILES" OfficeClientEdition="32">
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="en-us" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Access" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
<ExcludeApp ID="InfoPath" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Project" />
<ExcludeApp ID="SharePointDesigner" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Visio" />
</Product>
</Add>
<Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
<Logging Level="Standard" Path="%temp%" />
<Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN" Value="TRUE" />
</Configuration>
**note: Add SourcePath="PATH TO OFFICE INSTALL FILES" points to the Office\Data folders which were created when using the ODT in /download mode.
Edit:
After troubleshooting the issue more yesterday I found that whenever I try to activate Office 365 ProPlus an error is generated in the application log.
The description for Event ID 0 from source MSOIDSVC.EXE cannot be found. Either the component that raises
this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.
If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
The following information was included with the event:
InitializeSvcAPI failed with hr = 0x8004825b
I've thus far been unsuccessful in figuring out what MSOIDSVC.EXE is or what it does.
Edit:
http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/sso/534.aspx
MSOIDSVC.EXE is part of the Microsoft Services Sign-In Assistant (MSO SIA). After installing MSO SIA and verifying that the services were running activation still failed.

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How to know via PowerShell "did user install office on his computer with office 365 or not"

Hello. Sorry for my english.
Subject: How to know via PowerShell "did user install office on his computer with office 365 or not"
I set to users Office 365 ProPlus license, that allows a user to install Office on up to five computers. I want to know, user use this opportunity or not, install office or not.
User can view his installation in the Office 365 portal:
But how I (like admin Office365) can view this information? Maybe via PowerShell?
Thank you...

Hi,
Please see the
blog, I copied the part of here:
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Viewing a list of Office 365 ProPlus installations
A user can see which computers she has installed Office on by signing in to the Office 365 Portal and going to the
software page.
Only the signed in user can see this information. Even if you are the administrator for your organization's Office 365 subscription, you can't see this information in any of your Office 365 administrative views. This also means you can't deactivate
a user's installation of Office on a specific computer. More on deactivation in a bit.
====
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How to install Office 365 Pro Plus Ms office 2013 Offline through MDT Task Sequence

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Shailendra Dev

There is a wealth of information on Office 365 deployments at:
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Download the office deployment tool
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Power BI Add-On for Office 365 Promo SKU

I have a customer who is trying to purchase the Power BI Add-on for Office 365 but is unable to do so without adding additional Office 365 licenses first. This customer already owns 1,000 Office 365 E3 licenses purchased some time ago based on an existing
promotion at the time. Any insight as to what the reason might be behind this?
Thank you for your help.
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Can I change providers of my Office 365 Business?

I have a customer with Office 365 Business who wants to use me as his retailer for this service instead of his current provider, is there any way of changing this or do I have to set this up as a new service?
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Hi Peter,
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