For several years, the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg had enabled its students to register for the use of Microsoft's "Office 365 Education". The registration was to be made using the - email address in the long form for the domain uni-oldenburg.de, i.e. in the format vorname.nachname@uni-oldenburg.de (and not ...@uol.de).

The licensing allowed a time-limited study-related use of "Office 365 Education" on private end devices with connection to Microsoft cloud services (in particular storage space) during the studies at the University of Oldenburg or as long as the offer from Microsoft to our university remains unchanged. We have no influence on the selection of products provided by Microsoft.

Microsoft has now changed the offer that has existed for years:

• Already since February 01, 2024, Microsoft has gradually reduced the storage space provided for each registered person in the cloud from 1 TerraByte to 100 GigaByte. If a storage volume of more than 100 GB is used at the time of the restriction, you will be informed that the limit has been exceeded and notified that changes can no longer be saved.
  --> You can now only access the data in read-only mode and, of course, download it to save it elsewhere.
• Microsoft has discontinued the
  A1 Plus license plan on which the product licensing was based as of 01 August 2024. This means that it will no longer be possible to use Office apps installed on the computer.
  For enrolled students with accounts in the uni-oldenburg.de domain, access to data in Onedrive and the use of Microsoft 365 apps in the cloud will initially continue to be made possible by means of licenses from the A1 plan, with a restriction to online use only.
• For already registered users of Microsoft Office 365 in the tenant uni-oldenburg.de there is now the possibility of a license assignment in self-service to continue using Office 365 with locally installed apps. To do this, select the "Access to Microsoft 365" tile under the "Application" tab on the user administration website(https://konto.uol.de).
• Registration for the use of Microsoft Office 365 is still possible via the link www.microsoft.com/de-de/education/products/office directly on the Microsoft website for the use of "Office 365 Education". (Only the license assignment of the A3 license is in the user administration.)
  You will be guided through the registration process in a few steps and provided with further information on use and the terms of use. To register, Microsoft asks for your first and last name, your date of birth and your university e-mail address in the long form, i.e. vorname. nachname@uni-oldenburg.de (and not ...@uol.de), in order to set up an account for you on the "Office 365" platform.
• It should be noted that the storage space provided in Onedrive will be further limited to a value significantly less than 100 GB.
• Accounts that, contrary to our specifications, were not registered using the uni-oldenburg.de domain, i.e. in the form vorname.nachname@uni-oldenburg.de, but using ...@uol.de or other university email addresses, will no longer be usable by the beginning of August 2024 at the latest. We recommend that you back up your data to other storage locations via download in good time.