Microsoft 365 Applications
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Availability
Product | EA/EAS | Program Attribute |
Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (Device SL) | Enterprise Online Service | |
Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (User SL) | Enterprise Online Service | |
Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise From SA (User SL) | Enterprise Online Service |
Product Conditions:
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Product Conditions - General | |
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Terms of Service | Universal License Terms for all Online Services |
Product Pool | All - Applications |
Promotions | None |
Product Conditions - Program Specific | |
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Extended Term Eligible | All |
Qualified User Exemption | None |
Reduction Eligible | All |
Reduction Eligible (SCE) | None |
True-Up Eligible | All (except From SA) |
Office View/Print for Office for the Web Users
Users licensed with an Office 365 or Microsoft 365 license may use Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise in Reduced Functionality Mode to view and print files.
Microsoft 365 Apps for business
Customer may not provision more than 300 user subscription licenses.
General Service Terms
Notices
The Bing Maps and Communication Services Notices apply (refer to Notices). Any onboarding, migration, or deployment services provided to Customer are subject to the Professional Services terms (refer to Professional Services terms).
Core Features for Office 365 Services
During the term of Customer’s subscription, the Office 365 Services will substantially conform to the Core Features description provided (if any) in the Office 365 service-specific sections, subject to Product restrictions or external factors (such as the recipient, message rate, message size and mailbox size limits for e-mail; default or Customer-imposed data retention policies; search limits; storage limits; Customer or end user configurations; and meeting capacity limits). Microsoft may permanently eliminate a functionality specified in the Office 365 service specific sections only if it provides Customer a reasonable alternative functionality.
Administration Portal
Customer will be able to add and remove end users and domains, manage licenses, and create groups through the Microsoft Online Services Portal or its successor site.
Office 365 Education
If Customer’s billing address is outside Europe and Customer has an Office 365 Education subscription, then notwithstanding the “Location of Customer Data at Rest for Core Online Services” section of these terms, Microsoft may provision Customer’s Office 365 tenant in, transfer Customer Data to, and store Customer Data at rest anywhere within Europe or North America. If Customer’s billing address is in Europe and Customer has an Office 365 Education subscription, then notwithstanding the “Location of Customer Data at Rest for Core Online Services” section of these terms, Microsoft may provision Customer’s Office 365 tenant in, transfer Customer Data to, and store Customer Data at rest anywhere within the European Union.
Service Encryption with Customer Key
Customer assumes all risks of data deletion, inaccessibility, and service outages that result from any unavailability of an encryption key caused by Customer.
Cortana
The Cortana core platform service integrated within Office 365 Services, in certain instances, may allow for users to connect to Microsoft services outside the Office 365 Services; if permitted by Customer, users electing to use such services are subject to terms of use other than theses Product Terms for use of such services and with respect to which Microsoft is a data controller, as identified in product documentation.
Microsoft Threat Experts
Any services provided to Customer through the Microsoft Threat Experts service are subject to the Professional Services terms (refer to Professional Services).
Endpoint Compliance Features
If Customer does not have an active subscription to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, an instance will automatically be provisioned for the limited purpose of enabling the endpoint features of the Compliance Services.
Yammer
For Office 365 Services that include Yammer, External Users invited to Yammer via external network functionality do not need User SLs.
Service Specific Terms
The following terms apply only to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise
Office Home & Student 2013 RT Commercial Use
The commercial use restriction for Office Home & Student 2013 RT is waived for each Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise User SL. Except as provided in this section, the terms provided with the Office Home & Student 2013 RT License will govern.
Office Online Server
For each Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise subscription, Customer may install any number of copies of Office Online Server on any Server. Any server that is under the management or control of an entity other than Customer or one of its Affiliates is subject to the Outsourcing Software Management terms. Each Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise user may use the Office Online Server software. This provision does not apply to Customers that license this Product under the Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement, Microsoft Cloud Agreement, or other Microsoft agreement that cover Online Services only.
Installation and Use Rights
Each user to whom Customer assigns a User SL must have a work or school account in order to use the software provided with the subscription. These users:
- may activate the software provided with the SL on up to five concurrent OSEs for local or remote use;
- may also install and use the software, with shared computer activation, on a shared device, a Network Server, or on Microsoft Azure. This shared computer activation provision only applies to Customers licensed for Microsoft 365 Apps for business when Microsoft 365 Apps for business is licensed as a component of Microsoft 365 Business Premium;
- must connect each device upon which user has installed the software to the Internet at least once every 30 days or the functionality of the software may be affected; and
- may use Internet-connected Online Services provided as part of these licenses [and governed by these terms]. Additionally, if permitted by Customer, users may elect to use connected services subject to terms of use other than these terms and with respect to which Microsoft is a data controller, as identified in product documentation.
- The Online Services will permit Customer to enable or disable these optional connected services; and
- Customer is responsible for evaluating, enabling or disabling the availability to its users of optional connected services.
Device-Based Subscription License
Each Device SL permits use of the software provided with the subscription. Users of a Licensed Device:
- may activate and use the software provided on one OSE on the Licensed Device; or
- may install and use the software remotely from the Licensed Device on one OSE on a Network Server, or on Microsoft Azure.
Customer must connect each OSE on which the software is installed to the Internet at least once every 90 days, or the functionality of the software may be affected.
Smartphone and Tablet Devices
Each user to whom Customer assigns a Microsoft 365 Apps for business or Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise User SL may (i) use Microsoft Office for mobile devices for commercial purposes and (ii) sign in to Microsoft Office with their work or school account on up to five smartphones and five tablets.
When versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams applications for mobile devices (“M365 Mobile Applications”) are used with a work or school account to access Online Services governed by these terms, the terms that govern the relevant Online Service apply to that use of the M365 Mobile Applications. Microsoft’s commitments related to M365 Mobile Applications do not extend to data processing, policies, or practices of third-party providers of mobile platforms on which the mobile applications operate (e.g., Apple, Google).
From SA
Customer may acquire From SA SLs instead of SA for fully paid, perpetual Licenses subject to the following conditions:
- Customer has active SA or is renewing coverage for the corresponding Qualifying Licenses
- Customer acquires no more than one From SA SL for each Qualifying License, unless provided otherwise in these terms
- Customer acquires From SA SLs at Enrollment anniversary or renewal
Enterprise Agreement Subscription (EAS) customers with continuous subscription coverage on Qualifying Licenses for no less than three years may purchase the corresponding From SA SLs. Customers renewing an agreement may renew From SA SLs up to the number of corresponding From SA SLs expiring.
As a one-time exception, when transitioning from per device licensing to per user From SA licensing for the first time, customer may purchase a greater number of From SA User SLs, if (1) Customer purchases a From SA User SL for all users of its Qualified Devices, and (2) in the case of Windows Desktop Operating System licenses, Customer adds devices as necessary to comply with the Primary User requirement in the Windows Desktop Operating System.
Microsoft 365 Applications
Qualifying License(s) | From SA User SL |
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Office Professional Plus | Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise From SA |
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