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We've just looked at two cloud-based methods for deploying apps,

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Intune and Microsoft Store for Business.

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Now it's time to look at some of the apps that many

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companies are likely to want deployed, Microsoft Office.

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Office 365, as we'll see, has many versions,

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but ProPlus is the one we're concerned with in this clip.

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It's a subscription service for enterprises that includes the core

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Office apps plus some non-core apps like Publisher,

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Access, and OneDrive.

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However, ProPlus does not include Exchange, SharePoint, or Teams.

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You also get web versions of the core apps,

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and licensed users can install the software on a

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maximum of five devices per user.

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And by the way,

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ProPlus at this writing is the only version that we can deploy via Intune.

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To put things into some context,

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it might be useful to do a quick comparison of Office 365 versus Office 2019.

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Office 365 provides on-premises software plus online

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web versions of the applications.

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Customers make recurring payments based on the number of users licensed,

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and the license is pay-as-you-go, although,

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depending on the license, an annual commitment may be required.

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Customers receive feature updates,

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analogous to the feature updates in Windows 10,

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twice per year, automatically and at no extra charge.

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Customers also receive cloud services such as OneDrive,

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and optionally others, depending on the license.

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Finally, we can deploy the ProPlus edition via Intune.

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By contrast, Office 2019 is on-premises software only,

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no online versions; it requires a one-time payment

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that conveys a perpetual-use license,

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but that license does not include the semi-annual feature updates,

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and only includes cloud services for a 5-year period.

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We cannot at present deploy Office 2019 via Intune.

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Now within the Office 365 family, we distinguish between Enterprise,

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Business, and consumer editions.

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Within the Enterprise family, which requires an annual financial commitment,

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we have E1 with cloud services only,

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E3 with the addition of the Office core apps,

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E5, which further adds Power BI, and ProPlus,

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which provides the core apps plus Access and Publisher on

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the PC platform as well as OneDrive.

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The Business editions of Office 365 permit monthly

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payments and include Business Essentials,

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providing cloud services only; Business,

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providing core apps and OneDrive including desktop

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versions; and Business Premium, with pretty much everything.

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And finally, the Consumer editions include Personal,

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which, as the name implies, is a one-person license; Home,

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which differs from Personal in that you can license

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up to six people in a household, and Home & Student,

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including only the three apps that students are most likely to need.

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Now the general procedure for deploying Office 365 with Intune is to

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navigate to the Client apps node of the main Intune page,

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click Apps and then Add, and choose Office 365 Suite as the app type.

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When it comes to configuring the settings, we have two main choices.

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We can use Intune's Configuration Designer,

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which lets us interactively configure the app suite,

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that is select the apps we wish to deploy,

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and configure the app suite settings,

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which includes miscellaneous choices such as 32- versus 64-bit binaries,

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whether to remove old MSI-based versions of Office,

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language choices, and so on.

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As an alternative to using the Configuration Designer,

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we can enter XML data generated by earlier tools,

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such as the Office Deployment Tool or the online Office

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Customization Tool that contain similar information to the choices

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offered by the Intune Configuration Designer.

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Now finally,

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we give the app suite a name and a description and optionally a

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category via the App Suite Information tile,

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along with informational and privacy URLs if we wish,

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and we assign the suite to one or more Azure AD groups.

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Here's the App Suite Settings page.

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Now we can see the options for 32-bit versus 64-bit architecture; Update

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channel; whether to automatically remove previously installed MSI versions of

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Office applications; whether to auto-accept the end user license agreement;

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whether to use shared compute activation licensing,

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so for example that would be in scenarios where multiple individuals

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are using the same computer and logging on with their separate

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credentials; and what languages to install.

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And here's a screenshot of the App Suite Information page where we can provide

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a name and description for the suite and optionally provide category

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information and URL details for information and privacy.

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Now an important note regarding Intune deployment of Office 365 is

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that the installation will probably fail if any previous desktop

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versions of Office exist on the machine.

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Now we just saw the option in the App Suite

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Settings page to remove such versions,

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but do be aware that this will delete all Office 365 apps on the device,

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even if you only want to install one or two new ones.

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Of course, we don't have to use Intune to deploy Office 365.

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Other options include Configuration Manager and Group

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Policy and manual installation,

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other third-party MDM and LAN-based app deployment tools.

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If by chance you are upgrading existing Office installations,

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be on the lookout for compatibility issues with Visual Basic

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for applications macros and Office add-ins.

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Happily, some compatibility assessment tools exist to help us in this regard,

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including the Microsoft Readiness Toolkit and the cloud-based

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Log Analytics Upgrade Readiness solution.

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As a final note to this clip,

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although we focused here on the Windows 10 scenario,

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be aware that Intune can also deploy Office 365 to macOS devices. And now you're ready to use Intune to deploy Office 365 ProPlus.