Office 365 application deployment

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I've setup a GPO to push out O365 apps as a replacement for Office 2016 using the deployment tool/config xml. The install is configured to run as a shared license rather than be specifically assigned to any 1 user in the business. From what I've read on this it checks the user signed in has a valid O365 license to use the app they've opened and assigns a temp key to them for that instance which expires in X days of inactivity on that device's apps.

Does anyone know how to view these temps key or if there is a limit to how many a user can have active in a given time frame? I've looked on both my personal 365 sign-in and the admin portal but cant find a record of this anywhere.

Finally, though it shouldn't be a problem, if a user installs their 5 instances of O365 suite on personal devices would that prevent them from getting a temp key for a work device running a shared O365 instance?
 
Sorry, been on hols for past 2 weeks. What you have described is how i thought it would behave however it doesn't seem to be true.

I've deployed O365 to a dozen or so machines now and on most have logged on with my own account and opened Office apps which work fully. Auto sign-in within app to my work account and link to my sharepoint and onedrive account when viewing save /open options. Account tab correctly show license type as shared activation key.

But if i view mine of any other users who are using these new O365 install machines. Install Status on O365 portal (my account) it shows
Detected installs: 0
 
yes office config file is pulling latest install from CDN. Its not a huge problem, actually less work if we dont have to manually tidy up users who log on to a lot of machines in a short space of time. Just dont want MS kicking off if I've missed something that breaches licensing

<Configuration ID="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx">
<Add OfficeClientEdition="64" Channel="Broad" ForceUpgrade="TRUE">
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="MatchOS" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
</Product>
</Add>
<Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="1" />
<Property Name="SCLCacheOverride" Value="0" />
<Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="FALSE" />
<Updates Enabled="TRUE" />
<RemoveMSI>
<IgnoreProduct ID="PrjPro" />
<IgnoreProduct ID="PrjStd" />
<IgnoreProduct ID="VisPro" />
<IgnoreProduct ID="VisStd" />
</RemoveMSI>
<Display Level="FULL" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
<Logging Level="Standard" Path="C:\O365_Logs" />
</Configuration>
 
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