preamble

There are many versions of Office which can be categorized as Personal / Enterprise. There are 2 versions of accounts, which are personal account/enterprise sub-account.

Enterprise Edition has a concept called global. It can be understood as an enterprise. Under a global there are many accounts with different permissions. The administrator can add/delete/view any other account/any file under them.

There is also the concept called subscription. Unlike a personal account, a business sub-account can't do anything, it's a blank page when you log in. You need to have a subscription to use the service.

A global that has not purchased any subscriptions is called an empty global, and a global that has no administrator is called an unmanaged global

Underneath the subscriptions are many services, and different subscriptions contain different services.

Like A1 includes outlook onedrive etc, A1P has more desktop board office than A1.

this tableIncludes some subscription service differences.

Administrators can buy subscriptions, pay per head, and distribute them to other sub-accounts.

Enterprise sub-accounts have to have a subscription in order to use theoffice outlook onedrive and the like.

All account types in this post are corporate sub-accounts

Education Subscription

Microsoft gives some discounts to educational units for student use. A1/A3/A5 or something like that, where A1 costs $0

Only global with tagged education tag can buy education subscription, there are many people pretending that they are education organization and get education subscription, once Microsoft found out that you are not a regular education organization, you just roll over.

Education tag.Microsoft's backend tags the global with an education tag, a non-profit tag, a government tag, or something like that, and only the global that has the education tag tag can purchase an education subscription.

Education Domain

• edu.xx class

Microsoft has some domain names added to the whitelist in order to speed up the review. As long as you register with a domain name of edu.xx, you will pass the education qualification audit directly and get the education tag

Some edu domain names are not well audited, there are too many white votes, Microsoft then banned some edu.xx. For example, edu.ge/edu.rs can't pass Microsoft's education verification.

• generic domain name class

A long time ago, some countries didn't have educational domains. Schools just went straight to org/com/.xx or something like that.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, for example, uses ust.hk instead of ust.edu.hk

Those schools applied for educational status with Microsoft, and Microsoft added the domain name to the educational whitelist by the way

After that those countries launched education domains, so some universities switched to edu.xx domains

Another part of the former common domain name is just abandoned. Can be registered/purchased by us

But these domains are still inside the whitelist. We'll call him Educational Domains. The A1 vendor scanned a bunch of

• A1P domain name

I'm not really sure about the source of this one, I just know that some domains don't have the same educational qualifications, they are usually issued with A1 license, but some domains are issued with A1P license (very rare), I guess those schools had some kind of agreement with Microsoft in the first place? I don't know if there's a big guy to explain it?

Self-service page

Earlier in the year, Microsoft licked the school and got aSelf-service page. As soon as you enter the mailbox of your education domain, Microsoft automatically opens an unmanaged global for you and then opens a sub-account for you.

School webmasters can DNS authenticate and take over this globally, but most schools simply ignore the

Many edu mailboxes can be registered with unmanaged global sub-accounts, and that's where it comes from

The page is still there, but the functionality has been drastically limited and no new global is opened anymore

Nowadays, self-help pages will first check if the domain already has a global, and if it doesn't, they won't open a new global anymore. If there is already a global and there is an educational subscription, it will open a number for you and give you an educational subscription

Here's the kicker, if there is a global with no subscriptions (or full subscriptions). And your domain name has educational eligibility, Microsoft will directly give this global under 500 A1/A1P subscriptions. It started out at 1500000, became 5000 with too many white votes, and last May became 500

Self-service web pages look only at the domain name, not the tag. tagless education subscriptions are where it's at.

It's a maneuver we call smuggling.

And there's more to it than that.

1. Global binding education a domain name
2. Smuggling authorization using the above method
3. Unbundle Domain Name
4. Go back to step 1 and bind another global
5. A1 dealers don't know how to use this method and swipe hundreds of global out for sale
6. This method has been blocked, now once the domain is unbundled, not only the domain is directly moved out of the whitelist, but also comes with deleting the subscription + dropping the tag

Regular registration

Now Microsoft no longer turns on the full board automatically. Schools have to go through theThis link.to apply for registration.

After the application is approved, the global is able to get the education tag.

If you have an educational domain name, you can apply for it directly, but if you don't, you have to prepare the documents and submit them for manual application review.

You can only buy educational licenses after you have acquired an educational tag. The price of one of the A1 licenses is $0 and a maximum of 1500,000 copies can be purchased

Educational licenses

• A1

The most common licenses. Subscription price $0

onedrive, 1T(preset)/5T(administrator expansion)/25T(find Microsoft customer service to expand)

outlook, used as a domain name mailbox

• A1P

The school signed an agreement to send the license

More desktop board office 365 services than above

• A3

More Minecraft Education Edition than above

Microsoft once accidentally set the price of A3 to $0 last May and people went on a buying spree. It has since returned to normal.

Microsoft also found a lot of people blanking tickets and immediately clamped down! High chance of being blocked if bought at that time

But the ones that aren't blocked are really permanently $0

There are also means such as MPN/dealer purchases and the like to be able to get subscriptions to A5 and the like

overturn a vehicle

Microsoft will block you when they find out that you are not a regular educational institution as a whole, commonly known as a rollover

There are several types of rollovers

lose license

The license is gone.

Seems like the least severe punishment.

I've never encountered one like this, can any of the big boys chime in?

• Seal off your global management

They were all sealed like this at first.

But the mjjs learned quickly to add a new privileged management account

Privilege management is not global management. But it is possible to add other global administrations

• Block your entire administration.

Microsoft quickly found out about privileged management and changed it to blocking all of your management

As long as it's an admin, it's blocked.

But the mjjs learned quickly. Switching to a self-service web page to brush up on sub numbers

But even if it's not managed, as long as the domain name is still there, the self-service page will work

As long as you set up a domain email address, you can continue to swipe the sub number (unmanaged)

• All accounts banned

Microsoft soon found out about the self-service web swipe numbers

All accounts are banned, whether you're an admin or not.

In order to avoid mistakenly blocked, affecting the whole school teachers and students, the general blocking only blocked management, regular school mention will be able to provide information to retrieve. So that during the period of being blocked, students are not affected

Microsoft determined that this global 100% was not a regular subscription to block it like this

But the mjjs learned quickly. Switch to API unblocking

Go to AAD and add a new set of API Key, authorize this API beforehand, and manage the permissions globally.

Even if all users are blocked, the API is not a user. Because the API still has permissions, it can add a new global admin to take back control of the

• Set your SPO quota to zero.

Microsoft found the API unblocked. Now it simply doesn't block your account, and when it does, it's being retrieved by all kinds of

The office back-end, almost all services are based on Share Point Online architecture, hereinafter referred to as SPO

All records/files in onedrive / outlook / sites / teams etc. are files located in SPO.

And SPO has a daily limit.

The back end just sets your quota to 0 and you can't use almost anything

The general comment about OD not working/OD hanging is in this category

And this quota we can't change at all, we can only change it in the Microsoft backend

This is kind of a one and done. I don't care what you have to do to get your account back, the account doesn't work properly anyway

For A1P and above, you can still activate the office365 desktop board. The A1 sub number would be really completely useless

Developer Subscription

Microsoft's ecosystem is big and full of various APIs

In order to encourage developers to help Microsoft develop various apps for free, Microsoft has opened a convenient door to help developers get a developer subscription

To make it easier for developers to develop various apps and not to encounter strange restrictions. The developer subscription unlocks almost all services with the exception of some more expensive ones. For example, calling/activating windows and such

There are 2 categories of developers, one is free developers, you can go here to register.

One kind of paid developer, to buy MSDN. can get more development resources, such as Azure credits and so on, as development/testing purposes

Developer subscription for development use only

Common Developer Subscriptions

• E3 MSDN

Near 2018, Microsoft gave MSDN developers an E3 MSDN subscription

The time limit is permanent and soon the registration channel will be closed and out of print

Right now it seems to be the most stable permanent subscription. It hardly ever rolls over. The only reason it does roll over is if Microsoft says it's for development use only and you're in violation of the agreement

Because Microsoft promised permanence in the first place, and unlike A1 and the like, it's limited to educational institutions. Non-educational institutions can register and get caught and roll over

• E5 MSDN

Now Microsoft is giving E5 MSDN with no time limit

But your MSDN subscription expires, and this subscription expires with it!

• E3 Developer

Microsoft's subscription to free developers with a 1-year time limit

• E5 Developer

Microsoft's subscription to free developers with a 90-day time limit, renewable

Microsoft writes that it will detect behavior underneath this account. API call logs, usage of various services, etc.

Microsoft has determined that the account is used to develop apps before automatically renewing it

The actual renewal is still all sorts of arcane. Some people brush up on their APIs every day and still don't pass, some people don't do anything and renew automatically

Above these subscriptions, all 25 people subscription have outlook have desktop board office365 have onedrive 1T(preset)/5T(administrator expansion)/25T(find Microsoft customer service expansion)

Other Subscriptions

• E3 SY Microsoft once accidentally opened it up for purchase for $0 Closed purchase channel, out of print, I heard a lot of it was banned Functionality equivalent to E3

• Teams free  To use Teams, you must have a subscription When you open Teams with a personal account, Microsoft's operation in the background is:Open a global takeover to issue 500,000 Trams free subscriptions, promote you to administrator, then you have a subscription to operate in Teams. You can go to aad and take over that global that Microsoft opened automatically, then you can see the Teams free subscription!

This subscription is almost nothing, there are Teams access (nonsense), no outlook, no desktop board office365, but there is onedrive 2G (preset)/1T (administrator expansion) global SPO total capacity of 1T. this capacity is shared globally, no matter how many subnumbers you open, it is useless. This is the 1T.

Management can set a single account limit of 25T, but the global capacity is only 1T, you see SPO set limit of 25T is false

• Teams exploratory

A subscription is required to use Teams

When opening Teams with an enterprise sub-account, if there are no Teams subscriptions in that global, 100 Teams exploratory subscriptions will be automatically issued, valid for a year

What happens after a year I don't know have outlook have onedrive 1T(preset)/5T(administrator expansion) no desktop board office365