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Best practice for installing Office 365E3
Hi everybody,
In my work, I install office 365 E3 licence using my account before imaging. So i use sysprep, create my image and send that image to the other computers.
I am wondering if I am not looking for trouble doing that. So far, it seems to be OK but I just want to be sure. In my account I see only three licences out of 5 that are used so I guess the sysprep wipes out my previous install.
is this considered best practice or shoud I do otherwise?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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.
Best Regards,
Nuno Árias Silva
Office Apps and Services
https://www.nuno-silva.net
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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
