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Office 365 Suites

Showing terms for the Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) program. Not all terms apply to all products and programs. Get help selecting a program.

Availability

Use the chart below to see which Office 365 Suites products are available with which programs.
Product EES Program Attribute
Office 365 A1 (User SL) Additional Product,Student Offering
Office 365 A3 (User SL) Additional Product School,Education Platform Product
Office 365 A5 (User SL) Additional Product School,Education Platform Product
Office 365 A5 Add-on (User SL) Additional Product Organization Wide,Enterprise Online Service,Student Offering,Additional Product School

Point Value Chart

The value assigned to a Product used to calculate the volume pricing level applicable to Customer’s volume licensing agreement.

ProductsPoints
Office 365 A1 (User SL)1
Office 365 A3 (User SL)1
Office 365 A5 (User SL)1

Product Conditions:

Provides additional information related to acquiring the Product, such as prerequisites for purchase, prior versions, and the applicable Product Pool.

Product Conditions - General
Terms of ServiceUniversal License Terms for all Online Services
Product PoolAll Application and Server (E1 and F3, Server only. Office 365 Multi-Geo Application only), MPSA – All Application only
PromotionsNone
Product Conditions - Program Specific
Reduction Eligible All
Student Use BenefitSee Student Use Benefits and Academic Programs

Smartphone and Tablet Devices

Each Office 365 A1, E1, F3, and Business Basic user to whom Customer assigns a User SL may (i) use Microsoft Office for mobile devices for commercial purposes and (ii) sign into Microsoft Office with their org ID on up to five smartphones and five tablets with integrated screens 10.9” diagonally or less.

Project for the web data  

Users licensed with an Office 365 license are granted view rights access to Project for the web Customer Data only on Tenants that have a Microsoft Project Plan 1/3/5 license(s).

  • These rights do not grant access to Power Platform applications or other data sets.

Office 365 EEA (no Teams) and Microsoft Teams EEA

Customers in European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland may acquire and use Office 365 EEA (no Teams) and Microsoft Teams EEA Licenses. Licensing terms for equivalent suites that include Microsoft Teams are applicable to EEA suites.

Office 365 (no Teams) and Microsoft Teams Enterprise

Customers not in European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland may acquire and use Office 365 (no Teams) and Microsoft Teams Enterprise Licenses. Licensing terms for equivalent suites that include Microsoft Teams are applicable to suites without Microsoft Teams.

License Prerequisites

LicenseLicense Prerequisites
Office 365 Multi-Geo Add-onAny Microsoft 365, Office 365, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business plan license

Academic Programs

The following applies to customers in the OVS-ES and/or EES Licensing Programs.

Extended Use Rights for Office Professional Plus

Each Licensed User assigned an Office 365 A3/A5 User SL may install one local copy of Office Professional Plus for the sole use of the Licensed User for the duration of the subscription. This provision does not apply to User SLs acquired through the Student Use Benefit.

Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for Shared Device Use in EES

Institutions with Office 365 A3/A5 User SLs assigned to all faculty and staff, Education Qualified Users, or Knowledge Workers in EES may acquire Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Device SLs up to the number of Office 365 A3/A5 User SLs licensed by the Institution for use on any device within the Institution’s Organization, including any open access lab or library devices.

Office Professional Plus for Lab and Library Use

Institutions with Office 365 A3/A5 User SLs assigned to all faculty and staff, Education Qualified Users, or Knowledge Workers may install Office Professional Plus software on any open access lab or library within the Institution’s Organization. Use of the software is otherwise subject to the License terms for Office Professional Plus.

General Service Terms

Notices

The 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 is provisioned outside of the EU or EFTA, and Customer has an Office 365 Education subscription but has not purchased an Advanced Data Residency for Education add-on, then notwithstanding the “Location of Customer Data at Rest for Core Online Services” section of the Product Terms, Microsoft may provision Customer’s Office 365 Education tenant in, transfer Customer Data to, and store Customer Data at rest anywhere within Europe or North America. If Customer is provisioned in the EU or EFTA, and Customer has an Office 365 Education subscription but has not purchased an Advanced Data Residency for Education add-on, then notwithstanding the “Location of Customer Data at Rest for Core Online Services” section of the Product Terms, Microsoft may provision Customer's Office 365 Education 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.

Viva Engage

For Office 365 Services that include Viva Engage, External Users invited to Viva Engage via external network functionality do not need User SLs.

Add-ons

Customer may acquire Add-ons subject to the following conditions:

  1. Customer must have active SA or an active User SL for the corresponding Qualifying Licenses
  2. Customer may acquire one Add-on SL for each Qualifying License(s), unless provided otherwise in these terms
  3. Customer may acquire add-on SLs between true-up dates in advance of the acquisition of the Qualifying Licenses

Add-ons expire upon the earlier of the expiration of the SA coverage for the Qualifying License or the Add-on SL term, unless provided otherwise in these terms. Add-ons may only be reassigned to users or devices with Qualifying Licenses. This section does not apply to EEA and no Teams Licenses.

Office 365 Suites

Add-on User SLs provide Licensed Users server software access rights equivalent to the Qualifying License from any device.

Qualifying License(s)Add-on User Subscription License(s)

Core CAL Suite, or 

Core CAL Suite Bridge for Enterprise Mobility + Security 

Office 365 E1 Add-on
Exchange Online Plan 1 Add-on
SharePoint Online Plan 1 Add-on

Core CAL Suite, or Enterprise CAL Suite, or 

Core CAL Suite Bridge for Enterprise Mobility + Security, or 

Enterprise CAL Suite Bridge for Enterprise Mobility + Security

Office 365 E3 without Apps for enterprise Add-ons
Office 365 A5 Add-on 

Core CAL Suite and Office Professional Plus, or 

Core CAL Suite Bridge for Enterprise Mobility + Security and Office Professional Plus, or 

Enterprise CAL Suite and Office Professional Plus, or  

Enterprise CAL Suite Bridge for Enterprise Mobility+ Security and Office Professional Plus

Office 365 A3/E3 Add-on
Office 365 E5 Add-on
Office 365 A5 Add-on
Office Professional PlusOffice 365 E3 Add-on (Available under Open Value Organization Wide and Open Value Subscription Only)

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