---
title: "How to manage Microsoft 365 licence groups at OVHcloud"
description: "Find out how to subscribe to a Microsoft 365 licence and manage it in the OVHcloud Control Panel"
url: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborative-solutions/microsoft-office/office365-csp1
lang: en
lastUpdated: 2025-05-22
---
# How to manage Microsoft 365 licence groups at OVHcloud

## Objective

There are several advantages to subscribing to the OVHcloud offers **Microsoft 365 Apps for Business** or **Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise**. Billing is monthly and you can use one licence for 5 PCs/Macs, 5 tablets and 5 smartphones.

Your Microsoft 365 licences are collected into a group, also called `Service`. An Apps for Business licence group can contain up to 300 licences, an Apps for Enterprise licence group is unlimited.

Here is the list of software included in the suite:

- Apps for Business licences: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher.
- Apps for Enterprise licences: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, Access.

**This guide explains how to subscribe to a Microsoft 365 licence and manage it in the OVHcloud Control Panel.**

## Requirements

- An <ManagerLink to="/">OVHcloud customer account</ManagerLink>

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### OVHcloud Control Panel Access
- **Direct link:** <ManagerLink to="/#/web-office/license">Microsoft 365</ManagerLink>
- **Navigation path:** <code className="action">Web Cloud</code> > <code className="action">Microsoft 365</code>
***

## Instructions

### Order a license

1. Go to the [Microsoft 365 sales page](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/collaborative-tools/microsoft-365/), or from the Microsoft 365 section of the OVHcloud Control Panel, click <code className="action">Order</code>.
2. Choose from our available solutions, namely "Apps for Business" and "Apps for Enterprise".
3. Set the renewal frequency for your license group.
4. Define the number of licenses you want, then finalize your order.

### Activate your license

To activate the license ordered:

1. Select the Microsoft 365 service concerned.

2. Click the <code className="action">Licenses</code> tab.

3. Click the <code className="action">⁝</code> button on the license line for the activation, then click <code className="action">Edit account</code>.

   <img className="thumbnail" alt="emails" src="/images/web-cloud/email-and-collaborative-solutions/microsoft-office/office-csp1/Outlook-cps1-01.png" loading="lazy" />

4. Enter the license user information, then click <code className="action">Confirm</code>.

   <img className="thumbnail" alt="emails" src="/images/web-cloud/email-and-collaborative-solutions/microsoft-office/office-csp1/Outlook-cps1-02.png" loading="lazy" />

### Install the Microsoft 365 suite on your device [](#)
Once the license has been activated, you will receive an email to the contact email address of your OVHcloud account. You can also find this email in your OVHcloud Control Panel
, by clicking on your account name in the top right-hand corner, then `My communications
` in the `Emails received`
 section.
This email contains the information required to download and install your Microsoft 365 suite, namely **the activation email address** and the **password**.

Go to [https://portal.office.com/](https://portal.office.com/) and log in with **the activation email address** and the **password** previously configured. You will be taken to a window where you can download the Microsoft 365 suite to your desktop, along with the installation instructions.

![emails](/images/web-cloud/email-and-collaborative-solutions/microsoft-office/office-csp1/Outlook-cps1-04.png)
#### Install Suite 365 on multiple devices

With a license, the user can install Microsoft 365 on **5 Windows and macOS devices**, on **5 tablets** and **5 smartphones**. This represents a total of **15 devices** for a license. All of these devices must be owned by the licensee.

To install your license on several devices, simply reproduce [the previous step](#install365) _on each device_, ensuring that each is managed _by the same user_.

### Change a license password

If you would like to set your own license password:

1. Select the Microsoft 365 service concerned.
2. Click the <code className="action">Licenses</code> tab.
3. Click the <code className="action">⁝</code> button to the right of the license concerned, then <code className="action">Change password</code>.

![emails](/images/web-cloud/email-and-collaborative-solutions/microsoft-office/office-csp1/Outlook-cps1-03.png)
### Add a license to an existing group

If you want to add one or more licenses to your existing license group:

1. Select the Microsoft 365 service concerned.
2. Click the <code className="action">Order more licenses</code> button on the right.
3. Determine the **number** and **license type** you wish to order, then click <code className="action">Confirm</code>.

![emails](/images/web-cloud/email-and-collaborative-solutions/microsoft-office/office-csp1/Outlook-cps1-05.png)
### Manage your subscriptions [](#)
#### Delete a license in a license group

In the `Licenses
` tab of your license group, click the `⁝
` button to the right of the license you want to cancel, then click `Delete account
`.
![emails](/images/web-cloud/email-and-collaborative-solutions/microsoft-office/office-csp1/Outlook-cps1-06.png)
:::info
Usage for the current month will be billed at the end of the month.

:::

#### Cancel a license group

To terminate your Microsoft Office 365 CSP1 license group:

1. Click on your name in the top right-hand corner of the OVHcloud Control Panel.
2. Click <code className="action">My offers and services</code>.
3. Identify your license group in the table for your services.
4. Click the <code className="action">...</code> button to the right of the license group you want to terminate, then <code className="action">Terminate</code>.
5. Specify the reasons for your termination request, then click <code className="action">Confirm</code>.

:::info
Usage for the current month will be billed at the end of the month.

:::

## Go further [](#)
[Using Remote Desktop with Microsoft 365 apps](/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborative-solutions/microsoft-office/office-proplus.md)

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