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Good Morning!

We have a Horizon View environment that serves 20 virtual machines to various users in a classroom setting. We have the licenses for Windows 10 and currently for a standalone Office 2013 product.

I’d like to get the machines upgraded a bit with a fresh master image and would like to include Office 2016/2019.

As an organization, we currently have an E3 license with Office 365. Everything I’ve come across suggests Shared Computer Licensing, but that seems to involve assigning users licenses.

The issue with that is I have no idea who these users are going to be as it’s a classroom environment with different users each time.

I guess I could setup stock users (stud01, stud02, etc.)? Is there another way to go about this that I am overlooking (there doesn’t seem to be a standalone office 2016 version)?

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You’re correct about Shared Computer Licensing, each user still needs to be assigned a license in O365 to use the Office 2016/2019 installed client. I’d also be careful about using generic accounts to get around this, Microsoft has really been cracking down on this lately because folks are using it to get around purchasing licenses for everyone in their org.

If you can’t assign licenses to the users, you’ll need to purchase a stand-alone copy of Office 2019 for each VM.

Of course, Microsoft licensing is a virtual minefield of complexity, so someone from MS may contradict me :slight_smile:

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Call Microsoft, and request volume licensing for X number of computers, then see this: