Vodafone Empowers Work from Home with Microsoft 365

As traditional working environments quickly evolve, Microsoft 365 is the latest hub of Cloud applications from Microsoft for putting organisational teamwork back into remote working. Now Vodafone customers can experience the full power of modern collaboration and integrated cloud workloads through Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams for the first six months free*.

Vodafone brings together the best of Microsoft 365 to empower you to chat, meet, share files, and work together with its unique cloud based business apps.

This modern workplace solution provides customers with all the required business collaboration solutions; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Microsoft Notes and Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft Teams, is an application within Microsoft 365 which provides unified collaboration by enabling your employees to remotely meet, chat, call and share documents with other team members from anywhere through any device.

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Key Benefits


Microsoft Online Applications


Online File Storage


Document Sharing


Co-authoring


Video & Text Chat


Teams Meeting


Third Party Application Integration


Accessible From Anywhere

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. What are the Customer Prerequisites to enable Microsoft Teams or Microsoft 365?
    • Internet connection for end-user devices.
    • Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Teams applications installed in PC/Laptop or mobile devices.
    • Application for Microsoft Teams or Microsoft 365 signed off and submitted to Vodafone Qatar business representative.
    • The customer has to have a company registered domain name and email ID to be able receive the activation mail from Microsoft.

  2. What is the criteria to be eligible to use 6 Months for free offer?
    • Offer is for both existing registered Microsoft 365 customers and those who have never registered as a Microsoft 365 customer (New Customers).
    • For New Customers Only, two products are available for 6 months for free:
      • Microsoft 365 Business Basic (companies with < 300 users)
      • Microsoft 365 E1 (companies with > 300 users)
    • In both cases customers are eligible to apply for 6 months for free offer when signing 12 months contracts.
    • Existing Microsoft Customers who use at least Exchange Online: will get Microsoft Teams as 6 Months free with no additional commitment.

  3. What does “New Customer Only” mean?
    The Office 365 E1 and Microsoft 365 Business Basic promos will technically enforce that customers must not have a currently paid or recently cancelled (within the last 30 days) subscription for any of the other Office 365 plans.

  4. Can Customers with less than 300 users purchase Microsoft 365 E1 License?
    Yes, customers with less than 300 users can purchase Microsoft 365 E1 license, however, users with more than 300 users cannot purchase the lower version of Microsoft 365 Business Basic.

  5. When does the first 6 months free promo start?
    Microsoft 365 offer starts on the day Vodafone activates it for the customer, not from the day, the 1st user has been created. This is quite important to note.

  6. Will the first 6 months free offer be automatically convert to a paid subscription?
    Yes, the first 6 months free offer license will continue after 6 months with automatic charges applied starting from 7month till end of contract.

  7. How long will these promos be available?
    The Microsoft 365 E1 and Microsoft 365 Business Basic promos are available till June 30th, 2020. Microsoft may choose to extend availability of these promos based on the evolving environment.

  8. How many licenses can be acquired through the first 6 months free promo?
    • There is a 3000-license limit for the Office 365 E1 Promo. Licenses beyond 3000 will not be eligible for the promo pricing.
    • There is a 300-license limit for the Microsoft 365 Business Basic Promo, in line with seat restrictions for SMB (organizations with less than 300 users).
    • Regardless of the number of licenses, customers have to commit to an annual duration.

  9. How do I get in touch with Vodafone for support?
    Customer may get in touch with the Product Manager through below contact

    Jumly Sheriff
    Product Manager- Cloud and Hosting
    Mohamedjumly.sheriff@vodafone.com

  10. How do I get help to get started with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams and make sure the deployment is successful?
    Vodafone Qatar makes it possible to business users to use selected Microsoft licenses by activating them for customers on Microsoft systems. The service does not include installation and configuration in customer’s environment or devices.

    Microsoft offers the FastTrack Center Benefit for Office 365, which will help you to plan, deploy, drive usage, and adopt best practices. This service is offered at no cost when you have at least 150 users. To find out more, read Requesting FastTrack assistance for Microsoft 365 just got easier. FastTrack setup guidance for Microsoft 365 is available to all Office 365 tenant administrators. To access this guidance, sign in to https://aka.ms/setupguidance with your admin credentials.

    If you want to get started on your own, read How to roll out Teams and check out our Teams in 30 webinar series, designed to get you up and running with Teams in as few as 30 days.

  11. Where do I find help getting Teams running for my company so my users can work from home during this crisis?
    Read Support remote workers using Teams. It covers most of the common tasks and questions on getting started with Teams for remote workers.

  12. Where can I find more information to help remote workers?

  13. What happens to user data after if the customer wished to discontinue the promotion?
    • If the customer wishes to enter into a subscription agreement with Vodafone, the data will be retained and the customer can continue to use the application.
    • If the customer does not wish to continue, the tenant will continue to follow Microsoft policies of data retention, deletion policies.

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