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John Haverty
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Dec 05, 2017

Add the Recording Tab to PowerPoint Not Working

We are trying to figure out how to add the Recording tab as mentioned in the article from Microsoft regarding https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Migrate-your-content-from-Office-Mix-c1c04f84-a7...
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John Haverty
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Dec 08, 2017
Greg,

Thanks! We are on 16.0.4266.1001 which is part of our campus installation. I read on another forum that might be the issue that we are not installing the Office 365 application but instead using a campus installation. This seems odd to me that they would not have the same options for both knowing that Microsoft is pushing the suite to not only computers on campus but also for use at home by faculty, staff, and students.

I am not sure I found the exact "update ring" you are referring to so if you are not looking for 16.0.4266.1001 as for the version, let me know and I will check again.

Thank you!

John
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tapb
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Dec 14, 2017
I have tried to flag this elsewhere on other forums but not got clarity. I work with a range of education institutions across the UK and the standard installation of Office 2016 using Professional Plus which the IT department deploy. I'm not yet sure of the update cycle of this but it is way behind the version of Office that can be installed by a user from the web portal which is updated monthly called Office 365 ProPlus. This means these institutions don't have the Recording tab and they're not sure when they'll get it. I did find this link that describes how an an organisation can do a device based installation of ProPlus but it appears at least when the blog was written it is not supported outside of the US https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/nzedu/2017/05/03/device-based-activation-for-office365-proplus-great-for-education/
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    John Haverty
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    Dec 14, 2017

    Philemon,

     

    Thank you! This is helpful. This goes along with what I have found on other discussion forums, but no one stating clearly that this is the case. As it appears this is true, this is going to cause us issues on our campus as we have a lot of our faculty who were using this process and now it is being replaced with a process we cannot use on our campus. Not good!

     

    John

     

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      Greg Edwards
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      Dec 14, 2017
      John I'm wondering if your IT Department can put users who need the Recording tab into an administrative group with a different Office release channel. Our organization typically has users under the Deferred channel, which puts them about 6 months behind on feature updates. But I'm on the Office Insider channel, so I get the updates as they are being rolled out. It should be pretty easily configurable by Group Policy.
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        John Haverty
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        Dec 14, 2017

        Greg,

         

        Thank you for the suggestion. I forgot to mention I am in the IT department. :) The issue we have is that our instructional trainers have told the campus about Office Mix to the campus and now they are trying to figure out what to tell instructors that are using Office Mix or would like to switch over to the new. So, we have a mix of users who have been using it for a while and then possibly new faculty that will need to use it too.

         

        I believe the issue we had when we tried installing the install from Office 365 is that we could not control the updates. So, we went back to the OEM version so we could control updates. I will talk to our instructional designer to see if it would make sense to move those individuals who are currently using Office Mix and need the Record tab to the Office 365 install. I am just afraid there might be too many.

         

        Thanks again for the suggestion and the reply. If you come across anything else regarding the Record tab, please let me know.

         

        John

         

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