1. Office 365 ProPlus Deployment The How-to's, The Watch-Out's, The Gotcha's 
Bruce Lyons
ATLSMUG Board/Intellinet
Comic Book
Compare Office E1 versus E3 and others
Office Telemetry
Office Deployment Toolkit
Office XML Editor on GitHub
Office 365 (2016) ODT
Office 365 (2013) ODT
Office 2013 ADMX/ADML Templates
Office 2016 ADMX/ADML Templates
Using OSPP.VBS for licensing
OSPP.VBS command line switches
Atlanta Windows Infrastructure and Virtualization User Group
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2. Office 365 ProPlus Deployments
Licensing difference – VL versus Click-To-Run
Office Telemetry
Deployment Options
Deployment Customization
Customization….. Through GPOs
Updating, with control and without
Troubleshooting

3. Better than The Walking Dead series?
Other comic book called “Mail Storm”
Company name in comic books is Woodgrove

4. Office 2010 and older – Volume Licensing
MSI Installs
Office Deployments since Office 2000
Device based activations of license
Customizable via Office Customization Toolkit
Local apps can interact with install
Updates provided by ‘Patch Tuesday’

5. Office 365 ProPlus Click-To-Run installs
New installation type for Office installs
Link to Office 365 Portal for customers
User based activation model for licensing
Customizable, mostly with GPOs
Local apps can interact with install
Updates provided by ‘Current versus Deferred’ model

6. Office 2016 VL still available
Still MSI based
Different listing in Programs and Features
Can still use Office Customization Toolkit
Updates provided by ‘Patch Tuesday’

7. Office 365 ProPlus Licensing
Focusing on options that provide E1 versus E3
Online
Full version

8. Office 365 E1 Licensing Online Version of Software
can be access via web browser or phone
All Office apps are online only
Restrictions to functionality
No Macros are available
Limits on file sizes
Updates to files are immediate
No access to files via local computer (OneDrive only)

9. Office 365 E3 Licensing Fully functional Office suite of products
All features of E1 are available
Local install of Office suite

10. Scenario E1 License E3 License
Local lawn and garden service group with 50 employees
Remote at various locations
All employees carry cell phones with data plans
Payroll system provides paystubs via
Communications and company announcements delivered via
Decide which license most of the user should get for Office 365?
E1 License
E3 License

11. Scenario E1 License E3 License
Local lawn and garden service group with 50 employees
Remote at various locations
All employees carry cell phones with data plans
Payroll system provides paystubs via
Communications and company announcements delivered via
Decide which license most of the user should get for Office 365?
E1 License
E3 License

12. Office 365 ProPlus Licensing
Office 365 Education
Online versions of Office apps only, but available
Office 365 Education E5
Full version of Office ProPlus apps
Office on tables/phones
Skype for Business
Office 365 Education is free, but the E5 licenses are $6/month students, $8/month faculty/staff

13. Office Telemetry
Monitoring Framework that replaces OMPM, OCCI, and OEAT
Records errors in certain Office applications, reports back to central location
Not available in Office 2003/2007/2010, must deploy Office Telemetry agent
Enabled through GPOs
Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM), Office Code Compatibility Inspector (OCCI), and Office Environment Assessment Tool (OEAT).

14. Office Telemetry - Benefits
Reports on Document health
Reports on Solution Health
Add-in compatibility
Runs as scheduled task on workstation (configurable)

15. Deploying Office 365 ProPlus
Download through
Users allowed to license up to 10 copies of Office 365 ProPlus
Allows user to initiate install on their own (no management)
Office Deployment Toolkit
Download setup.exe and configuration.xml
Can be used for large scale deployments
Download source files or allow streaming of install

16. Deploying Office 365 ProPlus

17. Deploying Office 365 ProPlus

18. Customized ProPlus Deployment
Edit configuration.xml with additional options
Restrict installs of various products
Install particular version of the ProPlus suite
Install via cloud or internal share
Provision updates via cloud or internal share

19. Example CONFIGURATION.XML file
<Add OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel="FirstReleaseCurrent">
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="en-us"/>
<ExcludeApp ID="Access"/>
</Product>
</Add>
</Configuration>
Different channels -> Current, Deferred, First Release Deferred, and First Release Current

20. Important CONFIGURATION.XML flags
SourcePath=\\server1\Office365\
Location of source path of files, can be UNC or local
DownloadPath=\\server1\Office365\
Location where to download files from, can be UNC or local
Version=" “
Install specific version of software
Allows for control during first installation; especially useful when doing testing

21. Important CONFIGURATION.XML flags
Product ID=“O365ProPlusRetail”
Product that will be installed – simple as that.
Those that purchase other licenses for other products can substitute this listing for those products.
O365BusinessRetail
O365HomePremRetail
O365SmallBusPremRetail
ProjectProRetail
ProjectProXVolume
VisioProRetail
VisioProXVolume

22. Other important CONFIGURATION.XML flags
<Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
Hide the install to the user, accept the EULA to hide some more
<Logging Level="Standard" Path="%temp%" />
Yes, you can turn off logging (Why? I have no idea, file only averages 1 MB)

23. Other important CONFIGURATION.XML flags
<Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN“ Value="FALSE"/>
I can force the app to shut down if already running (mainly for updates)
<Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing“ Value="1"/>
Shared computer scenario to keep number of licenses to be subtracted from user stats at a minimum
<Property Name="PinIconsToTaskbar“ Value="TRUE"/>
Enable/disable apps from automatically being placed onto taskbar
<Updates Enabled="TRUE" UpdatePath="\\Server1\Office365\" Channel="Deferred" />
Updates path location, specifically used if you want to do internal updates

24. Shared Computer Licensing
Within a call center, a user might not sit at the same desk every night.
Disable the addition of a license via the SharedComputerLicensing flag on shared workstations

25. Shared Computer Licensing

26. Scenario
Airline reservation system requires a 500 employee call center.
Excel is required to access a Macro based connection to pull customer information
Updates are handled via a file share
Update the product as little as possible with new features
Exclude Access and Publisher to keep employees as focused as possible. Primary language for all users is English.
Build a CONFIGURATION.XML

27. Scenario CONFIGURATION.XML file
<Add OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel=“Deferred">
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="en-us"/>
<ExcludeApp ID="Access"/>
<ExcludeApp ID=“Publisher"/>
</Product>
</Add>
<Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
<Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing“ Value="1"/>
</Configuration>
Build Configuration section of XML file, next we will add in Office version

28. Scenario CONFIGURATION.XML file
<Add OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel=“Deferred">
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="en-us"/>
<ExcludeApp ID="Access"/>
<ExcludeApp ID=“Publisher"/>
</Product>
</Add>
<Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
<Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing“ Value="1"/>
</Configuration>

29. Scenario CONFIGURATION.XML file
<Add OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel=“Deferred">
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="en-us"/>
<ExcludeApp ID="Access"/>
<ExcludeApp ID=“Publisher"/>
</Product>
</Add>
<Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
<Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing“ Value="1"/>
</Configuration>
Next we will add in excludes for Access and Publisher plus language

30. Scenario CONFIGURATION.XML file
<Add OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel=“Deferred">
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="en-us"/>
<ExcludeApp ID="Access"/>
<ExcludeApp ID=“Publisher"/>
</Product>
</Add>
<Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
<Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing“ Value="1"/>
</Configuration>
Different channels -> Current, Deferred, First Release Deferred, and First Release Current

31. Time to Deploy using CONFIGURATION.XML
SETUP.EXE part of the Office Deployment Toolkit
Two main switches work with setup.exe
/download – Can be used to download set of files to local workstation, great for staging the install in network share/SCCM/etc.
setup.exe /download configuration.xml
/configure – Forces install on local workstation
setup.exe /configure configuration.xml
Building applications in ConfigMgr

32. Office 2013 ProPlus MSI Listing

33. Office 2016 ProPlus MSI Listing

34. Office 365 ProPlus Click-To-Run Listing

35. Office 365 ProPlus Click-To-Run Listing
when multiple language packs installed…

36. Office 365 ProPlus Click-To-Run Listing
Multiple listings of ProPlus within Programs and Features means multiple install Product IDs (SCCM)

37. Customizations via Group Policy
It might be Office 365, but it uses the Office 2013/2016 client. Therefore, Group Policy is done via the Office 2013/2016 ADMX/ADML templates
Download the ADMX/ADML templates and install into Active Directory
Office 2013 ADMX/ADML templates also available
Reference XLSX also available
Plug Jeremy’s session at 12:45p
Why Group Policy isn’t dead, still matters, and what’s new for Windows 10

38. Office 365 ProPlus Updating
Use Group Policy to point toward….
Target version
Update location
Enable automatic updates
Why not patch via SCCM 2012?
New updating policy follows Windows 10 standards
SCCM version 1602 allows for Office 365 updating

39. Troubleshooting Office 365 ProPlus Installs
Installation information
Multiple files located within log directory, always containing computer name
Language Packs
When multiple language packs are installed, they all must be the same version number

40. Troubleshooting Office 365 ProPlus Installs
Previous version on same machine
Office 2010 or lower can be installed on same machine as Office 365 ProPlus installs.
Office 2013 and 2016 cannot be installed together.
Architecture
If installing multiple versions, only same architecture can be installed
Office 365 ProPlus 32-bit and Office bit will not co-exist

41. Troubleshooting Office 365 ProPlus Installs
Licensing the product correctly
Internal KMS does not license, the Office Portal does
Make sure your firewall ports are open, work with antivirus teams
Problems do arise from time to time
OSPP.VBS with command line switches
Requires to be ran with cscript.exe from command prompt
There are many command switches for this script, but we will focus on the main licensing switches.

42. Troubleshooting Office 365 ProPlus Installs
Cscript.exe ospp.vbs /dstatus
Brings up current licensing information
Ran from command prompt

44. Troubleshooting Office 365 ProPlus Installs
Problems still exist? Remove the Office 365 ProPlus license, and re-add it in (sort of)
Cscript.exe ospp.vbs /unpkey:8QHKC
Removes license from client
Cscript.exe ospp.vbs /dstatus
Verify removal
Open Office product, wait about 10 seconds, close.
Should re-establish license
Verify that the license was re-established.

45. Troubleshooting Office 365 ProPlus Installs
Wait, we can also perform licensing for other Click-2-Run installs via KMS server

46. Questions? Comments? bruce.lyons@atlsmug.org Twitter @blyons_ga
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