Module 5
Planning and deploying
Office 365 ProPlus
Module Overview
• Overview of Office 365 ProPlus
• Planning and managing user-driven Office 365
ProPlus deployments
• Planning and managing centralized deployments
of Office 365 ProPlus
• Office Telemetry and reporting
Lesson 1: Overview of Office 365 ProPlus
• Overview of Office 365 ProPlus
• Office 365 ProPlus licensing and activation
• Overview of Office 365 deployment
• Office 365 ProPlus update branches
• Discussion: Planning on using Office 365 ProPlus?
Overview of Office 365 ProPlus
Office 365 ProPlus client packages:
• Office 365 ProPlus
• Office 365 ProPlus vs. Office 2016 Professional Plus
• Office 365 ProPlus requirements
• Internet requirements
• Visio, Project, InfoPath, and SharePoint Designer
Office 365 ProPlus licensing and activation
Licensing and activation affects an Office 365
ProPlus user’s:
• Requirements
• Licensing and activation process
• Reduced functionality mode
Overview of Office 365 deployment
Considerations for Office 365 deployment:
• Deployment and bandwidth planning
• Removing previous versions
• User communications and guidance
• Deployment methods
Office 365 ProPlus update branches
• Update branches can be deployed as:
• Current Channel
• Deferred Channel
• First Release for Deferred Channel
• Configure users for update branches from:
• Office 365 admin center
• ODT
• Group Policy Objects
Discussion: Planning on using Office 365 ProPlus?
• What issues do you anticipate with deploying Office?
• What method would work best for your organization and
why?
• What advantages can you identify with user self-install
methods as opposed to deployment methods from an
administrator? Are there disadvantages?
• How will your organization manage update branches?
15 minutes
Lesson 2: Planning and managing user-driven
Office 365 ProPlus deployments
• Introduction to user-driven deployment
• Managing user-driven installations
• Considerations for user-driven deployments
Introduction to user-driven deployment
In a user-driven deployment:
• Office is always streamed from the Internet
• Users must have an Office 365 account and be
provisioned for Office 365 ProPlus
• Users must have administrative rights to the local
computer
• Office 365 ProPlus installs updates from Office
365 automatically in the background from the
Internet
Managing user-driven installations
• Administrators can use the user software page to
control installation of:
• Office and Skype for Business
• SharePoint Designer
• Other purchased services (Project Pro, Visio)
• Administrators can control installation of specific
applications with:
• AppLocker policies
• App-V 5.0 or later
Considerations for user-driven deployments
Considerations for user-driven deployment
include:
• Obstacles to success
• Communication and training
• Office for Mac
• Mobile devices
Lesson 3: Planning and managing centralized
deployments of Office 365 ProPlus
• Introduction to managed deployments
• Overview and customization of Office Deployment
Tool
• Managing and deploying Office with Group Policy
• Managing Office 365 ProPlus updates
• Planning for Office 365 ProPlus deployments
• Discussion: Planning for a Managed Office 365
deployment
Introduction to managed deployments
• Office 365 ProPlus is downloads to the local
network, and then distributed through one of the
following tools:
• Configuration Manager
• Intune
• Non-Microsoft software distribution
• Group Policy startup scripts
• Scripted installation
• Office Deployment Tool:
• Configuration.xml
• Group Policy
Overview and customization of Office
Deployment Tool
• Example of the Office Deployment Tool
configuration.xml file:
<Configuration>
<Add SourcePath=“\\Server\Share” OfficeClientEdition=“32”Branch=“Business”>
<Product ID=“O365ProPlusRetail”>
<Language ID=“en-us”/>
</Product>
<Product ID=“VisioProRetail”>
<Language ID=“en-us”/>
</Product>
</Add>
<Updated Enabled=“TRUE” Update Path=“\\Server\Share”/>
<Display Level=”None” AcceptEULA=“TRUE”/>
<Logging Level=“Standard” Path=“%temp%”/>
</Configuration>
Managing and deploying Office with Group Policy
• You use Group Policy to manage:
• General settings
• Application-specific settings
• You use the Group Policy path:
• User Configuration\Administrative Templates
\Microsoft Office 2016
Managing Office 365 ProPlus updates
• Optimized software update model consists of:
• Smaller updates
• Background updates
• Update options:
• Automatic from cloud
• Automatic from network
• Rerun setup.exe using ESD
• Use Configuration.xml file to manage updates
Planning for Office 365 ProPlus deployments
Typical obstacles in an Office 365 ProPlus
deployment:
• Users do not have admin rights
• Bandwidth limitations during deployment
• Incorrect licenses
• Windows XP issues
• Lack of enterprise software deployment
expertise
Discussion: Planning for a Managed Office 365
deployment
What would you take into account when planning for a managed
deployment of Office 365 ProPlus in your organization?
• Deployment method
• Update branches
• Best Office configuration
• Type and level of training
15 minutes
Lesson 4: Office Telemetry and reporting
• Overview of Office Telemetry
• Deploying and configuring Office Telemetry
• Office Telemetry considerations
Overview of Office Telemetry
We can take advantage of telemetry by:
• Using reporting to plan deployments
• Deploying telemetry agents to earlier Office versions
• Viewing the Office Telemetry Dashboard
• Viewing the Office Telemetry log
• Using REGEDIT and Group Policy for Telemetry
management
Deploying and configuring Office Telemetry
The telemetry configuration steps are:
1. Prepare the database
2. Set up the Office Telemetry Processor
3. Deploy Office Telemetry Agents
4. Configure Office Telemetry Agents
5. Connect the dashboard to the database
6. Configure privacy
Office Telemetry considerations
Common obstacles to a successful deployment of
Office Telemetry include:
• Permissions
• Infrastructure issues
• Unreported data
• Missing data
• Performance and capacity planning
Lab: Managing Office 365 ProPlus installations
• Exercise 1: Preparing an Office 365 ProPlus managed installation
• Exercise 2: Managing user-driven Office 365 ProPlus installations
• Exercise 3: Managing centralized Office 365 ProPlus installations
Logon Information
Virtual machines: 20347A-LON-CL1
20347A-LON-CL3
20347A-LON-CL4
20347A-LON-DC1
20347A-LON-DS1
User names: Adatum\Administrator
Adatum\Holly
Adatum\Beth
Password: Pa55w.rd
Estimated Time: 60 minutes
Lab Review
• Why do you need to edit the configuration.xml file
when preparing to use managed deployments of
Office 365 ProPlus?
• How can you verify that the Click-to-Run service is
running?
