Screenshot of Office 365 E3 sign up pageĮnter in your email address. You may need to do this in an InPrivate/Incognito browser window to avoid being signed in with your usual work email address.Ĭlick on Free trial. There are different subscription tiers you can sign up for. Screenshot of Office 365 apps included in the free trial How to sign up for a trial You will also have admin access to this tenant, so you wont run into any permission issues, making it ideal for following along with any training you may be doing. Training/practice: You can test out the Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Office 365 tools without worrying about breaking anything in your normal work account.Creating demos: Create a new organisation of your own to set up as you please.When you sign up for a trial, you a creating an organisation tenant of your own, which makes it useful for things such as: Little teaser for an upcoming blog post.With a free trial of Microsoft 365 you can use the Power Platform and Microsoft 365 tools without interfering with your normal work account. Let me know how you may/may not benefit from Shared Computer Activation and we can voice our collective opinion to Microsoft. Last, I sit on a licensing panel and would love to review the different use cases for this program.

Although a bit out dated, here is a good overview as well on SCA: (v=office.15).aspx (well, about as cool as powerpoint’s can go). If you are international, let me know and we can look into getting US authorized as well. Typically this is for SPLA partners that report not only high SPLA revenue (although not necessarily), but are also strategic in marketing activities with Microsoft. If you don’t know if you are managed, let me know – I can see if you are. You must be an authorized SCA partner.You must be managed by a Microsoft hosting team member.You must be authorized for Cloud Solution Provider Program (CSP Tier 1).If you would like to use this use right (SCA) you must meet the following criteria: Good news for you, and even better news for Microsoft. Fast forward to today and Microsoft is opening it up to the service provider channel as well. In the past, this was only available in Azure. So what does Office under Office 365 really mean? Some time ago, Microsoft created a use right titled “Shared Computer Activation” For those playing at home this is code for installing end user Office license from O365 in a shared cloud infrastructure similar to license mobility. I don’t care about late breaking news, I just want you to get the licensing right, the information right, and be profitable. But with everything in the world of licensing there’s always a catch.įor those that have read my blog for a while know that this blog is not a news source, but an education source. There’s a rumor that Microsoft will allow a service provider the ability to host Office licenses under Office 365 in a shared cloud environment.

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