[Autogenerated] we've just looked at to cloud based methods for
deploying apps in Tune and Microsoft Store for business.
Now it's time to look at some of the apps that many
companies are likely to want deployed.
Microsoft Office Office 3 65 as we'll see as many versions,
but Pro plus is the one we're concerned with in this clip.
It's a subscription service for enterprises that includes the core office apps,
plus some non core apps like publisher Access and OneDrive.
However, Pro Plus does not include exchange SharePoint ER teams.
You also get web versions of the core apps,
and licensed users can install the software on a
maximum of five devices per user.
By the way,
Pro Plus at this writing is these only version that we can deploy via in tune.
To put things into some context,
it might be useful to do a quick comparison of office 3 65 versus Office 2019.
Office 3 65 provides on premises software plus online
web versions of the applications.
Customers make recurring payments based on the number of
users licensed and the licenses Paya's UGO,
although depending on the license and annual commitment,
may be required customers receive feature updates analogous
to the feature updates in Windows 10 twice per year
automatically and at no extra charge.
Customers also receive cloud services such as OneDrive and optionally,
others, depending on the license.
Finally, we can deploy the pro plus edition via in tune.
By contrast, Office 2019 is on premises.
Software only know online versions.
It requires a one time payment that conveys a perpetual use license.
But that license does not include the semiannual feature updates and
only includes cloud services for a five year period.
We cannot at present deploy office 2019 via in tune now within the office.
3 65 family.
We distinguish between enterprise,
business and consumer editions within the Enterprise family,
which requires an annual financial commitment.
We have E one with Cloud services only E three with the
addition of the office core apps E five,
which further adds Power BI I and Pro Plus,
which provides the core apps plus access and publisher on
the PC platform as well as OneDrive.
The business editions of Office 3 65 permit monthly payments and
include business essentials providing cloud services only
business providing core apps and OneDrive,
including desktop versions and business premium with pretty much everything.
And finally, the consumer.
Additions include personal, which, as the name implies,
is a one person licenses home which differs from personal and that you could
license up to six people in the household and home and student,
including only the three apps that students are most likely to need.
The general procedure for deploying office 3 65 within Tune is to navigate to
the apps note of the main endpoint manager Edmund center page,
click all apps and then add and choose Microsoft 365 apps as the app type.
Now we give the apps sweet a name,
description and category by the apps Sweet Information tab,
along with informational and privacy.
You RL's if we wish.
When it comes to configuring the settings,
we have two main choices we can use in tunes Configuration Designer,
which lets us inter actively configure the app suite that is,
Select the apps We wish to deploy and configure the app Sweet information,
which includes miscellaneous choices such as 32 or 64-bit binaries,
whether to remove old MVC based versions of office and properties,
including language choices, among others.
Now,
as an alternative to using the configuration designer we can enter XML data
generated by earlier tools such as these E office deployment tool or the
online office customization tool that contain similar information to the
choices offered by the configuration designer.
The last step is to assign this sweet to one or more Azure aid groups.
Well,
let's show you what this process looks like in the
Microsoft endpoint Edmund center, the new home for Microsoft In tune,
we've navigated to the apps page and selected all
apps and click to the add button.
The first decision is to specify the app type,
which for us will be the Windows 10 entry under Microsoft 365 apps.
Then we'd click the select button and the many Wizard begins
with the app Sweet Information tab shown here,
where we can provide a name and description for the sweet and optionally
provide category and URL details as well as specify whether the software
should appear is a featured app on the company portal.
Now the next tab is these configure apps Sweet tab notice that we've
chosen configuration designer for the configuration settings format
rather than nXML file created by another utility.
Our choice lets us set various options on this tab using
the drop-down menus and toggle switches,
the configure apps, sweet menus.
Let us choose which apps in the Sweet we like to deploy,
and below that,
you can see the options for 32-bit versus 64-bit architectures update
channel and whether to automatically remove previously installed MVC
versions of office applications and finally,
in the Properties section.
We can set whether to use shared computer activation licensing,
for example,
in scenarios where multiple individuals are using the same computer and
logging on with their separate credentials and whether to auto except the end
user license agreement and what languages to install.
Now when performing an in tune deployment of office 3 65.
The installation will probably fail if any previous desktop
versions of office exist on the machine.
Now.
We just saw the option in the Configure apps suite page to remove such versions.
But just be aware that this will delete all office 3 65 apps,
even if you're only wanting to install one or two.
So you may wish to handled the situation differently,
for example,
with PowerShell to give you the flexibility to uninstall only selected
office apps before you perform an in tune deployment.
Now the next tab, labeled assignments,
is where we can assign the deployment to Azure 80 groups based on
whether we want the deployment to be required available or in the case
where we want to remove the software uninstalled.
Note the links to add all devices and add all users.
If we want to make an enterprise wide deployment now,
we don't have to use in tune to deploy office 3 65.
Of course, other options include configuration manager,
group policy, manual installation and other third-party,
MDM and land based app deployment tools.
If by chance you are upgrading existing office installations,
be on the lookout for compatibility issues with visual basic for applications,
macros and office Adan's happily some compatibility assessment tools do exist,
including the Microsoft are Edin is Toolkit.
But be aware that the Windows Log Analytics Upgrade Readiness
solution has been retired by Microsoft as a final note.
Although we have focused here on the Windows 10 scenario,
be aware that in tune can also deploy office 3 65 to macOS devices, and with that tidbit you are ready to use in tune to deploy office 3 65 pro plus