The “ Office 365 Open & Office 365 FPP FAQ” updated November 22nd, 2013 states “Product keys must be redeemed within 5 years from the time that they are purchased from Microsoft.

To renew a Product Key Subscription, the Product Key required must include a greater than or equal to number of user licenses as is already assigned to the service.

If a Windows Embedded Standard 2009 OS is built with a trial license key, it will expire after some.

Product Key Subscriptions cannot have more than two (2) years of service time outstanding. embeddedwindowswindows-activationwindows-embedded-2009.

The “ Office 365 Open & FPP Business Policy and Service Activation Partner Guide” dated December 2013 lays out some Product Key Subscription Management Policies including: Lastly, let’s examine the evidence here as I like to include my sources where possible. And if they need to downsize to less than 100 users, they can’t change those keys. Many cloud services have gone down in price so the customer may be losing out by buying future years in advance. Use the first key in year 1, then when your office 365 service is coming up for renewal pop up to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Centre (VLSC) and get the next key for year 2 and so on. Instead, purchase 5 lots of E3 SKUs for 100 users.

So for our example you don’t want to buy 500 E3 licences as that will result in one activation key for 500 users. This also applies to a customer with 100 users: 1 activation key. Office 365 uses dynamic keys, for example if a customer has 25 users, they will receive one 25-digit activation key which will enable all 25 users licences when that key is redeemed. Not to worry, here is what you can do to correct the. A week or two after you install windows 7, the user submits a help desk ticket telling you their windows is not 'Genuine'. Especially when you are knocking out windows upgrades a dozen at a time. So if a customer with 100 users has an amount of cash they wish to use in a financial period and they’d like to buy Office 365 plan E3 in advance for several years they can purchase 5 x Office 365 E3 100 user keys. Everybody forgets at one time or another. This is a very common question and there are two terms to remember here.ġ – You have five years to redeem (activate) an Office 365 key after the purchase dateĢ – You cannot have more than 2 years’ Office 365 service at a time Could you please confirm that as we have a client who is interested in buying 3 year term instead of 12 month subscription.” A question from Daniel: “I am sure that one of you mentioned that it’s possible to purchase Office 365 keys in advance under Open and FPP and have up to 5 years to activate them.

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