How to enable or disable Clipchamp for users in your organization
Applies ToClipchamp for work accounts

This article is for administrators of Microsoft 365 tenants who would like to enable or disable Clipchamp in their organization.

Your end-users can access Microsoft Clipchamp in its desktop app for Windows or in the browser if it is enabled for them.

If you are a Microsoft 365 administrator, you can manage access to Clipchamp for individual users, groups of users or your entire organization.

If you are familiar with enabling and disabling services, you'll see that these options are the same as for other services that are part of Microsoft 365 business or education SKUs.

Learn more in the following sections:

Clipchamp's availability in Microsoft 365 SKUs

The standard plan of Clipchamp's work version is an included service in some Microsoft 365 business and education licenses. By default, Clipchamp is enabled for users who have one of these Microsoft 365 licenses assigned to them by their organization.

Microsoft 365 Business SKUs

Office 365 Business SKUs

Microsoft 365 Education SKUs

Microsoft 365 E3

Office 365 E3

Microsoft 365 Education A3

Microsoft 365 E5

Office 365 E5

Microsoft 365 Education A5

Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Office 365 Business Standard

Microsoft 365 Education A3 Student Use Benefit

Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Office 365 Business Premium

Microsoft 365 Education A5 Student Use Benefit

Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features

Microsoft 365 A3 Extra Features *

Microsoft 365 E5 Extra Features

Microsoft 365 A5 Extra Features *

* The Microsoft 365 E3/E5 (and A3/A5) Extra Features licenses are available for subscribers of the Microsoft 365 E3/E5 (and A3/A5) Original SKUs. ​​​​​​​Extra Features licenses are not available for the Microsoft 365 A3/A5 Student Use Benefit Original SKUs and therefore Clipchamp can't be made available through them. To provide Clipchamp through a Student Use Benefit license, customers must move to the Microsoft 365 A3/A5 Student Use Benefit Unified SKUs.

Additional notes on availability

Clipchamp Standard is in the process of being made available as a service in Office 365 SKUs for business (Office 365 E3, E5). The rollout is ongoing as of November 2024. Clipchamp is not available in Office 365 education SKUs (Office 365 A3, A5) at this stage.

For notifications about Clipchamp releases including the possible availability in additional Microsoft 365 SKUs, please follow the Microsoft 365 roadmap.

Subscription plans for work

Since the beginning of December 2023, in addition to Clipchamp Standard being part of the above-mentioned Microsoft 365 licenses, there is a Clipchamp Premium plan available as a Microsoft 365 Enterprise or Business add-on. Customers on one of the license plans listed above can purchase Clipchamp Premium to access additional features.

Clipchamp Standard and Clipchamp Premium are also available as standalone subscriptions for work users who are not on one of the Microsoft 365 license plans mentioned above. For more information, see this announcement.

Managing Clipchamp availability for individual users

For individual users who already have a Microsoft 365 license assigned to them, you can unassign Clipchamp in the Admin Center or through PowerShell.

Enable or disable Clipchamp through the admin center

  1. In the admin center, go to the Billing > Licenses page.

  2. On the Licenses page, select the row for a specific user.

  3. In the right pane, select or deselect Microsoft Clipchamp depending on whether you want the user to have Clipchamp or not.

  4. When you're finished, select Save, then select Close.

Clipchamp is visible as a service in the list of apps and licenses assigned to a user in a Microsoft 365 organization

For more information, see: Change the apps and services a user has access to.

Enable or disable Clipchamp through PowerShell

As an admin, you can also use PowerShell to enable or disable services like Clipchamp when assigning a Microsoft 365 license to a user. For more information, see For a single user in the article Disable access to Microsoft 365 services while assigning user licenses.

Managing Clipchamp availability for groups of users

For groups of users, you can use PowerShell to enable or disable the Clipchamp service.

When you're in the process of assigning Microsoft 365 licenses, you can disable access to specific Microsoft 365 services.

When licenses have already been assigned to users and you'd like to remove the Clipchamp service, use one of the following methods:

  1. Filter the account(s) based on existing account attributes, such as Department or City, and use the Set-MsolUserLicense cmdlet with the LicenseOptions parameter to enable or disable the service.

  2. Create a group of users and use the Set-MsolUserLicense cmdlet with the LicenseOptions parameter to enable or disable the service for all members of the group.

For more information, see: Disable access to Microsoft 365 services with PowerShell.

Disabling services for specific departments or locations only

You can use Method 1 above with PowerShell to filter the accounts based on the Department or Location attribute and disable a service for those accounts. For example, if you want to disable Clipchamp for all users in the Marketing department, you can use this command:

$LO = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId "contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK" -DisabledPlans "CLIPCHAMP" Get-MsolUser -All | Where-Object {$_.Department -eq "Marketing"} | Set-MsolUserLicense -LicenseOptions $LO

You need to replace “contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK” with your own AccountSkuId and “Marketing” with your own department name. You can also use other attributes such as City, Country, or Title to filter the accounts.

The ServicePlanId for Clipchamp is a1ace008-72f3-4ea0-8dac-33b3a23a2472. The ServicePlanName is CLIPCHAMP.

Managing availability of Clipchamp's desktop app for Windows

By default, users in your organization who are on a corresponding license can access Clipchamp's work version through Microsoft 365 on the web in Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome. In addition to web access, Clipchamp also offers a desktop application for Windows 10 and Windows 11 to launch the video editor directly.

Up to version 2.9.x, the desktop app only supports personal Microsoft accounts. From version 3.x, the app supports work or school Microsoft accounts (AAD/Entra ID). This new app version is now launched and generally available. For more information, see: Work account support in the Clipchamp app for Windows.

You can control the availability of the Clipchamp desktop app in your organization as follows.

  • We recommend using Intune to manage the app. This works the same as managing other Microsoft Store apps, see: Add Microsoft Store apps to Microsoft Intune.

  • We also recommend downloading the latest Clipchamp administrative template files (ADMX/ADML) and import them in Intune to be able to make use of the Group Policy options mentioned below. To learn how to import ADMX & ADML files in Intune, see this support article.

  • Your users need to be on app version 2.8.0 (or higher); managing the app won't work for older versions.

  • AAD/Entra ID account support is available from version 3.x (at least 3.0.10020).

  • Note that if the Microsoft Store is enabled for users in your organization, they can also update the Clipchamp desktop app on their device by themselves.

Admin experience in Intune

Group Policy options

After importing the Clipchamp ADMX/ADML files in Intune (see above), you can leverage two policies governing access to Clipchamp's desktop app.

  1. Enable Clipchamp Desktop App: This policy lets you block use of the app on Windows machines.

  2. Allow Clipchamp for personal accounts: This policy lets you block use of Clipchamp for personal accounts in the app on Windows machines.

The two policies either disable the desktop app completely or only allow your users to access Clipchamp's work version.

Microsoft 365 admins can manage access to the Clipchamp Windows app via Intune

Managing the desktop app

After adding the Clipchamp app to Intune so you can manage it as described in this article - Add Microsoft Store apps to Microsoft Intune, you can

  • enable or disable the app on user devices,

  • make sure it gets updated to its latest version,

  • allow or disallow the use of personal Microsoft accounts in it (via the group policy mentioned above),

  • or block it on user devices altogether.

User experience

If you disable Clipchamp's desktop app but it is already installed on a user device, they will see the following message when they attempt to launch Clipchamp.

Users of the Clipchamp app for Windows see this screen if access is blocked

If you disable Clipchamp for personal Microsoft accounts (MSA) and the desktop app version on a user device is less than version 3.x (so, 2.9.x), your users will see the following when they attempt to launch Clipchamp.

Users of the Clipchamp app for Windows see this screen if personal access is blocked

If you enable the app in Intune and a user launches it on their device, they will get auto-logged into Clipchamp's work version and see a landing page with their existing video editing projects.

Work users get logged into Clipchamp and see their projects on a home page

If you enable the app and allow your users to log into personal Microsoft accounts as well as work or school accounts, they can choose which Clipchamp version to open in the desktop app - work or personal.

Log into Clipchamp in the desktop app with a personal or work Microsoft account

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