Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Microsoft M365 F3 licensing Limitations and Confusion

 

If you are working in regulated environment you could be dealing with F3 license for some of your users and I am sure you have read MS license agreement making below bold statement on numerous articles about F3 license features.

From MS license agreement, ⁶F3 includes Office for Web and mobile apps only.

Office mobile limited to devices with integrated screens 10.1” diagonally or less”. ⁷F3 includes 2GB inbox only, No Outlook Integration, no Voicemail

Above statement is incorrect/misleading and needs to be corrected. PG needs to make sure, the information pertaining for license agreement does have clear wording on the licensing documentation explaining the difference Volume license version or MAK keys and Office web versions behavior so that customers can continue to prepare M365 migrations with correct business needs/requirements.

If you have volume license Outlook and OneDrive tick clients your F3 licensed users will be able to use them and there is no reason to force them to use OWA or OneDrive Web versions, until your organization is ready to transition to use Office apps that are being provided to your tenant part of your organization M365 subscription.

License agreement

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/f3?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab

 

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