Office 365 - remove Office 2016 installation from users personal laptop
We have recently migrated to Office 365 E3 for one of our business units. They have hired someone new who will be working remotely, using their personal laptop.
I was just informed this user doesn't have an Office package on that machine and therefore can't open the files she is being sent. I know her O365 license entitles her to install Office on up to 5 devices, so she should be covered to install on her personal machine.
The question I have is what happens when she leaves our employment? I want to make sure the Office installation is removed as well. I have found all sorts of documentation on deactivating an O365 account, but nothing on what happens with Office installations associated with that account. Will disabling her account disable Office and prevent her using it on her laptop? Do I have to remotely connect to her PC and uninstall?
Would love to hear how others are handling this.
I was just informed this user doesn't have an Office package on that machine and therefore can't open the files she is being sent. I know her O365 license entitles her to install Office on up to 5 devices, so she should be covered to install on her personal machine.
The question I have is what happens when she leaves our employment? I want to make sure the Office installation is removed as well. I have found all sorts of documentation on deactivating an O365 account, but nothing on what happens with Office installations associated with that account. Will disabling her account disable Office and prevent her using it on her laptop? Do I have to remotely connect to her PC and uninstall?
Would love to hear how others are handling this.
All you need to do is remove/unassign the license for the departing user. It's doesn't matter that the Office client stays installed or not, they won't be able to use it if the user is not licensed.
Once the OFFICE 365 subscription expires the user will not be able to use the Office Suite as it will ask for a license.
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Thanks for the explanation on this. As long as they have read only access, I am fine with that. I am hoping to draft up a contract before they install it which has them acknowledge our company owns the software and when they leave our employment we request remote access to fully remove the application. It's good to know if they leave under bad terms and won't give us access, we can at least ensure they can't use the program any longer.
This is true. At our company, whenever an employee is terminate/leave/whatever, there is a "cheat-sheet" that we need to go through. One of them is that all company-owned property is to be returned. Otherwise, the former employee will be billed not only for hardware, but for any company owned software that was installed.
Haven't had a former employee NOT bring the computer back since this was implemented.
On the other hand, the former employee can also request to purchase the computer and said software, unless it is proprietary software, which would have to be removed and that is also in the termination check list.
Haven't had a former employee NOT bring the computer back since this was implemented.
On the other hand, the former employee can also request to purchase the computer and said software, unless it is proprietary software, which would have to be removed and that is also in the termination check list.
Encourage the person to get their own subscription as most people need Office anyway.
If you want Office off the user's machine right away, you would need to remote in and uninstall it.