{"id":1716,"date":"2024-06-06T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2024-09-25T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T15:45:49","slug":"microsoft-office-desktop-apps-downloads-via-glow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/2024\/06\/06\/microsoft-office-desktop-apps-downloads-via-glow\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Office Desktop Apps Downloads via Glow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/public\/mdlt\/uploads\/sites\/5597\/2024\/06\/06092529\/Download-Now.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1718\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/public\/mdlt\/uploads\/sites\/5597\/2024\/06\/06092529\/Download-Now.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>If you have previously downloaded Microsoft 365 Pro to your personal laptop\/computer via the &#8216;Download Office Now&#8217; Tile in Glow and signed in with your Glow credential this change from Microsoft will impact you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Glow\u2019s Office A1 Plus licenses used to allow Glow users to download and\/or activate the Microsoft Office suite for free; however Microsoft are implementing some license changes that will impact this functionality.<\/p>\n<p>From the <strong>28th October 2024 users will no longer <\/strong>be able to use download the desktop applications through their Glow account.\u00a0 Access will be removed staring from the 28th Oct, but may take up to 3 weeks for all accounts to be updated.<\/p>\n<p>This is a change in Microsoft licensing that affects all Glow users, both staff and learners, and may impact home devices as well if the user&#8217;s Glow account has been used to download or log into Microsoft applications.<\/p>\n<p>This licensing change will <strong>not affect<\/strong> access to Microsoft 365 web applications, so you will still be able to access Word, Excel and PowerPoint through your web browser.\u00a0 The Microsoft Team app or and and Microsoft 365 mobile apps you have downloaded will also not be affected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more details on the changes to our Glow licenses and the actions you can take please go to the Glow support page &#8211; <a class=\"fui-Link ___1rxvrpe f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1hu3pq6 f11qmguv f19f4twv f1tyq0we f1g0x7ka fhxju0i f1qch9an f1cnd47f fqv5qza f1vmzxwi f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn\" title=\"https:\/\/glowconnect.org.uk\/help-with-glow\/microsoft-office-365\/office-365-proplus\/\" href=\"https:\/\/glowconnect.org.uk\/docs\/desktop-apps\/microsoft-office-desktop-app-august-2024-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Link HERE\">HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have previously downloaded Microsoft 365 Pro to your personal laptop\/computer via the &#8216;Download Office Now&#8217; Tile in Glow and signed in with your Glow credential this change from Microsoft will impact you. Glow\u2019s Office A1 Plus licenses used to allow Glow users to download and\/or activate the Microsoft Office suite for free; however &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/2024\/06\/06\/microsoft-office-desktop-apps-downloads-via-glow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Office Desktop Apps Downloads via Glow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[8,17],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-365","category-support","tag-microsoft-365","tag-support"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/mdlt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}