How does the 5/5 device licensing work for O365 E5?

Daemetius 31 Reputation points
2020-12-02T22:49:28.77+00:00

My question is, can I install another copy of O365 E5 from my work account to a personal device?

We have conditional access which prevents users from being able to login with their work accounts if they are using non-enrolled devices (like personal PCs). I suppose it would be impossible in this case since it would require to log in with the work account in order to use the Office apps like word, excel, powerpoint in another personal device right?

Are there any workarounds to this? We want to allow our employees to be able to install their 4/5 copies of O365 in their personal PCs without having access to corporate data and not enforcing Intune enrollment.

I was told that thru Conditional Access Rules we can use the corporate email for authentication purposes only and have the O365 desktop apps act independent without access to corporate data.

Is this possible? yes? no?

Thank you!

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  1. Emi Zhang-MSFT 22,086 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-12-03T06:53:26.25+00:00

    Hi @Daemetius ,
    As far as I know, your need Microsoft account to activate Office 365 and if you want to use Microsoft account to activate Office 365 in personal PC, this more related to the authentication mechanism for account login.

    I suggest you post this issue to Microsoft Admin forum to get more help:

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_o365Admin

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