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fkick
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7 months ago

Plans to Support Volume License and O365 Business Basic Users?

Are there any plans to expand support to Office Volume License Users and O365 Business Basic users?   We have a number of lab machines that are volume licensed and a number of freelances that are a...
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BenDBX
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Hi fkick,

 

Great question! Online co-authoring is available for these license types, but Desktop co-authoring isn't. In the end, it's Microsoft's decision to allow co-authoring with those license types, so we can't say whether there are plans to expand Desktop co-authoring.

 

Thanks,

Ben

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fkick
Explorer | Level 4
7 months ago

Thanks for confirming that this is an MS limitation and not a Dropbox limitation. Hopefully they'll open it up one day. 

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