Ensure a smooth transition to office 365 proplus Chris Shalda Chris.Shalda@coretekservices.com Microsoft Solutions Architect Coretek Services Chris Barnes Chris.Barnes@coretekservices.com Microsoft Delivery Manager Coretek Services

Chris Shalda Chris Barnes @ShaldaChris @CBarnesConfMgr MCSE MCSE 10 years at Coretek Services 15+ years in IT Food that I cook Big juicy steak

AGENDA PSA – Why do you need this? Why can’t I just run Office 2013 forever? Office Telemetry Dashboard: What it is, what it can do, and the data it provides O365 ProPlus vs Traditional Office Install Office Install – XML Files, Scripts, and Demo’s Demo – Upgrade to O365 ProPlus Installing and Servicing O365 ProPlus with SCCM - Demo Best Practices from the Field

ProPlus vs Perpetual License What don’t you get with perpetual license? Groups Mobile Apps # of installs (5/5/5) Roaming Documents and Settings 1TB ODfB New Features Ease of license tracking (won’t fail your audits)

Servicing Models, protecting you from yourself Newly announced requirement regarding office versions accessing Online Workloads Need to be on O365PP or on a version of Office in Mainstream Support to access Online Services as of Oct 13th, 2020. (Office 2016 Perpetual loses Mainstream Support on same day) If you are going to have to migrate anyways, why not migrate to Office 365 ProPlus? Servicing Model Cadence Alignments Windows 10 – Feature Updates 2 times per year (March and September) Office 365 Pro Plus – Feature Updates aligned with Windows 10 Feature Updates ConfigMgr – Staying with current cadence 3X per year to keep pace with Intune and Win10

Office telemetry dashboard What it is, What it Can Do, and the Data it Provides

Getting Ready for 2020 Today Installing o365 ProPlus

O365 Pro Plus – What to run, from where? Content Locations Cloud, File Share, SCCM Create XML, Download, and Install Channels / Branches First Release (Office Insider Fast) First Release Current (Office Insider Slow) Current First Release for Deferred Deferred

O365 ProPlus – What to run, from where?

What to Put in Your .XML File XML Editor Channel Version ConfigMgr Support Updates / Update Location Display Level

PSAppDeployToolkit When to use toolkit What does it do Office Scrub Scripts Customizing the UI

Upgrade of Office to O365 ProPlus Demo

Deploying and Servicing o365 proplus with Configmgr

Live Demo: Natively Deploying O365 ProPlus with ConfigMgr

Live Demo: Servicing O365 ProPlus with ConfigMgr

Best practices from the field Experience is learning from your own mistakes, wisdom is learning from someone else’s mistakes Like every deployment, based on your methodology (Test, Pilot, UAT, Production rings) Understand what you have out there. (OTD, Upgrade Analytics) Versions, x86 vs x64, Add-ins, Most used documents Office Viewer end of support (Nov 2017) Add-in Migration Activation / Authentication GPO Settings Auto Activate Turn off First Run Wizard

Resources Office 365 ProPlus C2R XML Editor https://officedev.github.io/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/XmlEditor.html Office Telemetry Dashboard Poster/Infographic https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34991 Release notes for Office 365 ProPlus (regularly updated) https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/mt465751.aspx Version and build numbers of update channel releases https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Version-and-build-numbers-of-update-channel-releases- ae942449-1fca-4484-898b-a933ea23def7?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US Office Viewers – Statement about end of support, other options for Office viewers https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4

More Resources Office IT Pro Deployment Scripts https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/ Other Office 365 ProPlus scripts/tools https://blogs.office.com/2015/09/30/deployment-scripts-for-office-2016/ Microsoft Program Manager for O365 Integration in SCCM. Tweet him for feedback. @TheAviPrasad