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The main license activation for Microsoft 365 is user activation. Most faculty, staff, and students at University of Michigan are assigned an Office 365 A3 for faculty license in Azure Active Directory. This license type allows the licensed user account to activate Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on up to 5 Mac OS or Windows computers. Activation occurs via sign-on to Azure Active Directory after launching a Microsoft 365 app that is installed in on a computer.
No action is required to enable User Activation. This is the default behavior.
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Device Based Licensing can be used to assign a Microsoft 365 license to a device account in Azure Active Directory instead of a user account. When Device Based Licensing is used, not no user activation is required when using Office applications. Device Based Licensing can be used to support use cases such as computing labs where use of user activation or shared computer activation may not adequately support all users utilizing Office.
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