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- Coming up, part four in our series
where I'll show you everything
that you need to know for deploying
Office using System Center Configuration Manager.
I'm gonna walk you through all the steps
to create and configure an Office package:
your options to define the experience for users,
and the tools you'll wanna know about along the way.
All current versions
of Office use the same click-to-run packaging type
and are installed and configured in the same ways.
And this is also true for Office 2019
and volume licensing editions like Professional Plus
and Standard.
Now at the foundation,
these click-to-run packages use an XML file
to govern install time settings and configurations
and a setup.exe bootstrapper to run the installation.
Now, to create the XML,
you use the recently-released Office customization tool,
and you can find that at config.office.com
And this is also integrated with Configuration Manager 1806
and newer releases.
Now the setup.exe that you're gonna use
is called the Office Deployment Tool,
and you can download that from Microsoft,
and it's also integrated with
Configuration Manager 1806 and newer.
So if you're installing Office on a handful of PCs,
you can do that manually,
and you can use the Office Deployment Tool
and Office Customization Tool
to deploy using the scripted installation.
So we know that most larger organizations
are gonna be using SCCM,
and the good news here is the process I just described
is fully contained in the Configuration Manager console,
and the XML and setup.exe are already there too,
so you don't need to go and grab those pieces.
SCCM will download the Office installation files directly
from the Office CVN as part of package creation.
So, now I'm gonna walk you through all the steps
in the process to build an Office 365 ProPlus Package
in Configuration Manager.
And this process is also used for
Office 2019 Visio and Project apps.
Note that you can also use the standard app creation process
but it will require you to manually author XML files,
download updated versions of the Office Deployment Tool,
and the Office Installation Binaries themselves.
Because of that, we actually recommend
that you use the steps I'm going to show you now.
So, to get started you can access
the Office 365 Client Management console.
And here, if we go into Office 365 installer
that's gonna start the package creation process.
Now again, this works for
Office 2019 Project and Visio as well.
So here I'm gonna give it a name, Office 365 ProPlus x64
because that's the package we'll be creating.
And then I'm gonna have to paste in a location
of a blank folder location and once I've done that
I can go ahead and click next.
Now I can open the Office Customization Tool,
that's integrated from the Office Customization Tools
online version, right here in Configuration Manager.
Here I can select the architecture
of Office I want to deploy: 64 or 32-bit.
I can also select the Office products I'd like to deploy.
So here you can see the Office 365 versions
as well as Professional Plus
and Standard 2019 volume licensing as well.
You also see all the Visio and Project versions
that you can deploy.
And additional things, like language packs
and the Access Runtime.
Now in the Update channel field, we're gonna
select the actual software update channels
that you wanna use.
So here we can select semi-annual channel
for twice per year updates.
The monthly channel, which means feature updates
will happen every month.
And we also have targeted releases for both
if you wanna preview those builds.
Now in the version selection, I can select
the actual version for the monthly channel
that I want to deploy and I'm gonna
go ahead and stick with the newest one.
In here, inside my apps configuration I'm gonna
select the apps that I want to exclude from deployment.
So I'm gonna exclude Skype for Business,
OneDrive Groove client, OneNote, Publisher and
I'll also exclude Access in this case
because I don't want those installed
on my client machines.
Now in this case I'm gonna select the languages that I want.
In my case, I'm gonna do a primary English US language
and I'm gonna select then a secondary language.
There are several options here.
In my case, I want my secondary language to be
Simplified Chinese, so I'll go ahead and select that.
Now I'll click add.
And I can add more languages if I want to
as well as proofing tools as part of this process.
Now within the Installation options,
I can select, for example, here to log
remotely my instillation logs somewhere else.
In here, in the Upgrade options I can
remove previous versions of Office,
but keep the apps that I want to keep.
Like, Visio and Project.
Now inside of the Licensing and activation section
we can automatically accept
the end-user licensing agreement
and we'll see that listed out here.
And also if I've got a Remote Desktop Services Environment
I can select shared computer activation.
Now, within General I'm gonna give my company name
there and that's going to basically tag
any document created by users once they've
got Office installed.
In this case, I want to use the Office Customization tools
Policy Preferences to block macros.
So, to do that you go ahead and search
for what you want to set.
Here I'm gonna search for macro.
I'm going to configure that macros are blocked.
In my case for access or any other apps on
my machines that I'm deploying to.
And now, once that's all configured
and ready to go, I can click finish.
And then I can review all of my settings
that I have just set for the Office Customization Tool
as part of Systems Center Configuration Manager.
Here are all the settings that we just went through,
it lists it out here.
And now, once I feel good about this,
I can go ahead and click submit.
And then, what that's gonna do is actually
take me to whether or not I want to
deploy this package right now.
So, I can select Yes and that will let me
select a collection, while I can keep
the default here and keep No selected.
And now when I got to the Summary and click next
it will actually go and download
all the pieces that we need.
The Office Installation Binaries,
the Office Deployment, then set up that exe.bootstrapper
I talked about earlier.
And everything else is part of the deployment package.
Now again, to go back to the point of the removal
of previous installs of Office,
we've done a lot of work there to make sure you
don't have to run any pre-flight or pre-installation
scripts like Offscrub.vbs or other things
you may have been doing.
Now the installation and uninstallation
of previous versions work seamlessly.
Also, things like migrating architecture are possible
through XML settings, so you can use
the Migrate ARC as part of the uninstall
and then reinstall the newer version so you
can go from 32 to 64-bit with one installation.
So now, as this starts to download all the package files
what I can do is navigate to the same folder
and directory that we saw earlier,
it's still on my clipboard.
So we can go ahead and paste in the same location.
In here we'll see all the stuff that's already
been downloaded and if I go into the Office directory
you can see that my installation binaries
are also starting to download,
and they'll be ready in just a sec.
So, now the download is complete.
I can see exactly where it's been stored to.
Then I can click close and now I'm ready
to start deploying that out to the collections
that I want it to deploy to, or as part of my
operating system deployments that I'm doing.
Now, the Office 365 Client Management Dashboard SCCM
is also there to help you monitor the progress of
your Office deployments.
You can see here, we've got quite a few different
Office 365 client versions out and
we can see whether or not those PCs
are managed or unmanaged.
There's a lot of great data here as well.
So, in the next episode we're actually going to
go deep into Office servicing and some proper
trouble-shooting and issue management using
log files, registry settings and also
Office licensing scripts.
Now you should be ready to upgrade your
Office 365 installs with Office 365 ProPlus
using the System Center Configuration Manager.
You can find out more information at aka.ms/officeupgrades.
Now, stick around for part five in the series
where we dig into updates for Office 365 ProPlus Management.
Thanks for watching and see you next time.
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