[OPLINTECH] Microsoft Office 365 question for the Borg Collective

[John Ward]

Yeah you can ignore that, they are just letting you know that the trial is expiring. Even though you aren’t using that trial it was still active.

From: oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of Chad Neeper
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 12:06 PM
To: OPLINTECH
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Microsoft Office 365 question for the Borg Collective

Hi all!

I'm not well versed in Microsoft Office 365. I've not had to deal with it until... *ahem* ...Karl's prompting in March.  ;-)

However, I've helped a couple of libraries set it up and they have been using it quite happily. It was initially set up and licensed using the default Education E3 license you get with the trial account. But the libraries qualified for and obtained the free E1. So, all of the user accounts, including the initial admin account were switched to the E1 license. Naturally, after the 30-day eval, the E3 licenses expired and Microsoft sent out their expiration warnings. No big deal; just ignore and everything's been fine.

Now, however, I'm seeing a different warning saying that the E3 for Students Trial account is about to be disabled in 7 days. I'm just hoping for some re-assurance that since all of the user accounts are assigned to the E1 license that things aren't going to blow up in 7 days!!!

When I look at Admin Center -> Billing -> Licenses, I see three licenses listed:  E1 for Faculty with all 12 users assigned,  E3 for Faculty with 0 users assigned, and E3 for Students with 0 users assigned. Both the E3 licenses have been expired for almost a month now and the library has been using the E1 licenses.

I'd be perfectly fine if the E3 licenses vanished from the Licenses page, but not so much happy if the "account" really does become disabled and the e-mail accounts get killed. That would be a deju vu kind of bad.  :-(


We were perhaps a week or so later than some other libraries that may have switched to Office 365, so I'm hoping someone else has already successfully held their breath and successfully navigated this particular warning. Can anyone maybe give me a little reassurance on this one?


Very much appreciated!
Chad

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