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Best practice for installing Office 365E3
Hi Daguerre101,
The best practice to install a computer as a pre-stage computer without using any credentials and to avoid any issues of any kind about activating Office or switch user, is to use the shared computer activation as I have described, and also if you are deploying several computers you can use that process using a fileshare or a usb pen.
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Nuno Árias Silva
Office Apps and Services
https://www.nuno-silva.net
Daguerre101 Hi, I highly recommend that you follow the official deployment guide.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/deployment-guide-microsoft-365-apps
Thank you ChristianBergstrom
This thread countains really useful info indeed. It shows how to push Office 365 on computers. Since it is already installed in our image my need is to see if I could have bad surprises with the choice I have made so far.
Thank you
Daguerre101 Hello, as you're installing as an image do follow this guide to prevent unexpected behavior (such as activation of Office) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/deploy-microsoft-365-apps-operating-system-image
OK thank you, I will do that for sure in my next images but my question still remains: What happens now that I've already started to reimage computers.
So what I did:
- Created my image
- login with my credentials on office.com
- Made the installation from office.com.
- Did a sysprep.
- Push that image to other computers.
After the users received their new computers, they login in AD with their own credentials and input their office365 credentials to activate their own office that has already been installed previously. Right now it seems to work fine but what could be the consequence on the long run?
Thanks
Daguerre101 Well, I have never used this approach but as the official docs says "You don't want any kind of Microsoft 365 apps product key installed in your operating system image."
I suppose all the users see the "Belongs to xxx" (your account) now when starting Office? And then signing you out and back in with their own credentials? To really switch the account correctly you would need to deactivate Office first, but from a license perspective you should be good as long as all users are licensed.
I obviously can't predict exactly what is going to happen from a technical perspective, but most likely experience some problems with the product keys, office activation / deactivation of apps and sign-in limits. So I believe you would benefit from using the recommend approach.
You could create a service request with Microsoft support asking the same questions to get an official standing.