Is it possible to use a "One-time purchase" license eg. "Office Home & Business 2019 (One-time purchase)” on an Azure VM? (No way with BYOL?)

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Is it possible to use a "One-time purchase" license eg. "Office Home & Business 2019 (One-time purchase)” on an Azure VM? (No way with BYOL?)

Peter Thurwachter (MINDTREE LIMITED) 621

Hello Team,

I’m trying to confirm if it is possible to use either

“Office Home & Business 2019 (One-time purchase)”
“Office Standard 2019 (One-time purchase)”

license on an Azure VM or not. (and if yes, how can this be done? Unfortunately, this VM will need to run Office without an M365 subscription. Is this possible?)

I do see on the Office 2019 for Windows and Mac FAQ, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office-2019-for-windows-and-mac-faq-a8fed43d-4c11-404a-acc3-09eb46a3a7fb
it says in the 3rd FAQ that:

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Q: I just bought Office 2019, why don’t I see a particular feature?

A: Office 2019 is the on-premises version of Office that includes a meaningful subset of features found in Microsoft 365, but does not include all of the latest features. It is a one-time purchase that does not receive feature updates.

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Does this one line "Office 2019 is the on-premises version"
infer that there is NO Bring Your Own License or any other method to allow this license to be used on an Azure VM?

Thank you so much for your time and expertise,

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Emily Hua-MSFT 27,796

Hi @Peter Thurwachter (MINDTREE LIMITED)

In my opinion, it is similar to "Licensing of Microsoft Desktop Application Software for use with Windows Server Remote Desktop Services", volume licensed versions of Office 2019 can be installed on Azure VM, such as Professional Plus and Standard. But Office Home & Business 2019 is one retail version.

In addition, since we do not have a testing environment with Azure VM, I also suggest you contact Microsoft Support directly to confirm this issue.

To install Office on Azure VM, you can install Microsoft Office using FSLogix application containers.

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Peter Thurwachter (MINDTREE LIMITED) 621 Reputation points

2022-06-29T16:49:21.797+00:00

Hello @Emily Hua-MSFT ,

Thank you for your answer.
Is the method you shared, using FS Logix the only method possible to Install Office onto a VM?

Is it possible to use the installer to install Office onto the VM?
Or is this not supported?
Emily Hua-MSFT 27,796 Reputation points

2022-06-30T09:36:46.953+00:00

Hi @ PeterThurwachterMINDTREELIMITED-2688
Thanks for your response.
According to article "Install Office on a master VHD image", you can run ODT with configuration file (.xml) to install Office on on a master VHD image for upload to Azure.
As we do not have the Azure VMs for testing, I can only search references online, to confirm more details, it's best post a new thread on Q&A forum with tag "azure-virtual-machines".
Thanks for your understandings,
Peter Thurwachter (MINDTREE LIMITED) 621 Reputation points

2022-07-04T01:53:10.857+00:00

Thank you again @Emily Hua-MSFT for your response, I have created a new Q&A forum with tag "azure-virtual-machines" as per your suggestion.

May I please follow up with this point of confirmation please?

IF the above is confirmed by VM team, that either One time versions of Office (purchased thru Volume Licensing) can be run on a VM, can the customer also expect the Microsoft support they receive from their "one time purchase" to be identical to that if running on a non-VM system?

(at least for the duration of the Microsoft 2019 Lifecycle)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/microsoft-office-2019

OR because they are trying to use a version of Office that is normally not mean for VMs and it seems the Office Team doesn't have VMs ready to test scenarios, should it be thought that: "the customer is welcome to use Office 2019 Standard (one-time purchase) on a VM if it works, BUT it should not be considered a supported scenario so if anything goes wrong, they can NOT expect Microsoft Support to help with the issue?"
Emily Hua-MSFT 27,796 Reputation points

2022-07-06T13:02:12.303+00:00

Hi@Peter Thurwachter (MINDTREE LIMITED) ，
If your customer need help on general issues of Office clients installed on a VM or non-VM system, the Windows operations meet the Office system requirements, then we will try our best to support these issues. For example, updates, activation issues.
If the issue involves some special environments, we recommend consulting the relevant teams at the same time for better help.
Peter Thurwachter (MINDTREE LIMITED) 621 Reputation points

2022-07-06T13:03:46.08+00:00

I see, @Emily Hua-MSFT
thank you very much, it is clear to me now

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