Shared Computer Activation for Office in Microsoft 365 Business

Hello FHochhard 

I just ran a test with the following steps:

1. Installed a Win2019 Server VM in Azure and made it a DC
2. Installed a Win2019 Server VM with RDS in Azure joined to AD
3. Set up a new Microsoft 365 Business tenant
4. Installed and configured Azure AD Connect on the DC
5. Installed Office 365 Business using ODT on the RDS VM
   1. Command: setup /configure Configuration_M365B.xml
   2. Config generated at config.office.com

      <?xml version="1.0"?>
      
      -<Configuration ID="ab7750be-ffe5-44b2-ae73-b205697d3a7f">
      
      <Info Description="Contoso Office Install for M365 Business"/>
      
      
      -<Add ForceUpgrade="TRUE" Channel="Insiders" OfficeClientEdition="64">
      
      
      -<Product ID="O365BusinessRetail">
      
      <Language ID="en-us"/>
      
      <Language ID="de-de"/>
      
      <ExcludeApp ID="Access"/>
      
      <ExcludeApp ID="Groove"/>
      
      <ExcludeApp ID="Lync"/>
      
      <ExcludeApp ID="Publisher"/>
      
      </Product>
      
      </Add>
      
      <Property Value="1" Name="SharedComputerLicensing"/>
      
      <Property Value="TRUE" Name="PinIconsToTaskbar"/>
      
      <Property Value="0" Name="SCLCacheOverride"/>
      
      <Property Value="0" Name="AUTOACTIVATE"/>
      
      <Property Value="FALSE" Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN"/>
      
      <Property Value="0" Name="DeviceBasedLicensing"/>
      
      <Updates Enabled="TRUE"/>
      
      <RemoveMSI/>
      
      
      -<AppSettings>
      
      <Setup Value="Contoso" Name="Company"/>
      
      <User Value="51" Name="defaultformat" Id="L_SaveExcelfilesas" App="excel16" Type="REG_DWORD" Key="software\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\options"/>
      
      <User Value="27" Name="defaultformat" Id="L_SavePowerPointfilesas" App="ppt16" Type="REG_DWORD" Key="software\microsoft\office\16.0\powerpoint\options"/>
      
      <User Value="" Name="defaultformat" Id="L_SaveWordfilesas" App="word16" Type="REG_SZ" Key="software\microsoft\office\16.0\word\options"/>
      
      </AppSettings>
      
      <Display AcceptEULA="TRUE" Level="Full"/>
      
      <Logging Level="Standard" Path="C:\odtLogging"/>
      
      </Configuration>

   3. After logging in using a UPN of a user, Office 365 Business with SCA worked properly
   4. 
   5. Have a look at your ODT logs.

      1. The key is to look for the Click-To-Run General Telemetry entry in your ODT log and find the SharedComputerActivation entry and make sure it is set to 1.  Here's an example from my install:

          

         11/27/2019 05:45:56.670           SETUP (0x4f0)              0x1534               Click-To-Run General Telemetry          aoh9t    Medium              TryLaunchClient::HandleStateAction {"MachineId": "16d801558d61f149b5521b69f7ac30cf", "SessionID": "711f1e86-31fb-47b6-9184-a14c20de4e90", "GeoID": 244, "Ver": "16.0.12228.20290", "C2RClientVer": "0.0", "ContextData": "{\"message\":\"Launching executable\",\"ClientExeName\":\"OfficeClickToRun.exe\",\"Parameters\":\" deliverymechanism=64256afe-f5d9-4f86-8936-8840a6a4f5be platform=x64 productreleaseid=none devicebasedlicensing=0 forcecentcheck= culture=en-us defaultplatform=False lcid=1033 b= storeid= forceupgrade=True piniconstotaskbar=TRUE forceappshutdown=FALSE autoactivate=0 totalclientcabsize=27453976 productstoadd=O365BusinessRetail.16_en-us_de-de_x-none scenariosubtype=ODT scenario=unknown updatesenabled.16=True acceptalleulas.16=True cdnbaseurl.16=http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256afe-f5d9-4f86-8936-8840a6a4f5be version.16=16.0.12228.20290 sclcacheoverride.16=0 mediatype.16=CDN baseurl.16=http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256afe-f5d9-4f86-8936-8840a6a4f5be sharedcomputerlicensing.16=1 o365businessretail.excludedapps.16=access,groove,lync,publisher sourcetype.16=CDN flt.useexptransportinplacepl=unknown flt.useoutlookshareaddon=unknown flt.useofficehelperaddon=unknown\"}"}

Hope this helps!

David