{"id":9686,"date":"2022-12-16T17:34:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intelliworx.wpenginepowered.com\/au\/?p=9686"},"modified":"2025-04-07T04:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T04:17:31","slug":"microsoft-365-licencing-with-shared-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelliworx.co\/au\/blog\/microsoft-365-licencing-with-shared-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft 365 licencing with shared accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 is a cloud-based suite of productivity and collaboration tools that is one of the most widely used business tools around the world. It includes a wide range of services and applications such as the Office 365 apps Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a range of Microsoft 365 subscriptions available to businesses and it is important to know how to best approach having multiple users to get the most out of this robust productivity tool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9688\" src=\"https:\/\/intelliworx.co\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/12\/m365-license.jpg\" alt=\"m365 license\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction to Microsoft 365 licensing<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 provides organisations with a comprehensive suite of services and applications. To access these services and applications, organisations need to choose a Microsoft 365 subscription. The apps and services you receive are dependent on which plan you choose, such as Microsoft 365 Apps for Business or Microsoft 365 Business Standard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you purchase a subscription, you specify the number of licenses you want, based on the number of people in your company. Then, you create accounts for the people in your company and assign a license. As your company&#8217;s needs change, you can buy additional licenses or reassign them to other users when someone leaves your company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can install Microsoft 365 on up to five PCs or Macs, five tablets, and five mobile devices with all of the following subscriptions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 Apps for business<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 Business Standard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 Business Premium<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 A3<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 A5<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 E3<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 E5<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Office 365 A1 Plus<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Office 365 A3<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Office 365 A5<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Office 365 E3<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Office 365 E5<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is a Microsoft 365 account?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once a license is assigned to a user, they are given an account email address and password that is used for logging onto Outlook, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, and Windows. Each user can log into Microsoft 365 from different devices as set out by the terms of the subscription plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some businesses choose to share accounts with more than one user to reduce the number of licenses needed. A shared account is simply multiple users sharing the same email address and password to log into applications and services. For example, a shared account may be decided on for a receptionist role or maintenance staff. These users share the same email address and log-on details.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While shared accounts allow organisations to reduce costs by sharing a single license among multiple users, it is not best practice for a number of reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poor security: More than one user having the login credentials to the same account is a security incident waiting to happen. Credentials can be lost or stolen more easily, poor security awareness can mean one user is more vulnerable to creating a security breach, and so on. It is also much harder to maintain access control with multi-factor authentication if multiple users have access to the same account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not compliant with licensing: Microsoft is very clear in their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/docs\/view\/Licensing-Use-Rights\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">licensing agreement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that each user who accesses online services must be assigned a user subscription license. The only exception is resource mailboxes, room mailboxes, and shared mailboxes, which don\u2019t need licenses to be assigned except when they are over their storage quota of 50 gigabytes (GB).<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get expert Microsoft 365 support from the experts<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microsoft 365 is the productivity and collaboration platform everyone is talking about in the business world. Whether your business has a large or small team, working in one space or remotely around the world, Microsoft 365 ensures seamless efficiency and productivity. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/intelliworx.co\/au\/microsoft\/microsoft-office-365\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Microsoft 365 consultants at INTELLIWORX<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can help your business choose the right subscription and manage user accounts to ensure you get the best from your investment. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft 365 consultants at Intelliworx can help your business manage user accounts to ensure you get the best from your investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[239,32],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-9686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-microsoft","tag-microsoft"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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