Update: New upgrade readiness tools for Office 365 ProPlus
Update: The the Readiness Toolkit for Office add-ins and VBA is now available for download. Read more about it on our new post and download the toolkit and start using it today. We are excited to announce new tools to support the application compatibility readiness for Office 365 ProPlus. Over the next year, we will roll out tools to catalogue your organization’s add-ins, assess the status of VBA applications and deliver an improved support for 64-bit VBA. Customers tell us about the importance of application compatibility in their ProPlus upgrade plans and these tools make planning and execution easier. We are releasing them in limited preview now. Reach out to us at ReadyForOffice@microsoft.com to be part of the preview program. The new tools we are creating for application compatibility include: Updates to the Office Telemetry Dashboard New tools for add-in readiness reporting 64-bit common control support Office add-in reporting in Windows Upgrade Analytics In addition to supporting internal add-ins and VBA applications, we are adding more readiness information for Office add-ins from 3rd party ISVs. Later this year, we will publish a searchable list of ISVs who already support Office 365 ProPlus and we’ll start the validation of those popular 3rd party add-ins in the new Office builds, giving you the confidence that your solutions will continue to work with the latest versions of Office. Office Telemetry Dashboard The Office Telemetry Dashboard is an existing solution that helps you to gather inventory and usage information about add-ins used within your organization. We are now extending the Office Telemetry Dashboard to include readiness information. There are three key pieces of readiness information that this tool provides: ProPlus Ready 32 Bit. The add-in is widely adopted and used by enterprise customers in ProPlus and there are no known problems with the add-in ProPlus Ready 64 Bit. A 64-bit version of the add-in is available and widely adopted by enterprise customers in ProPlus and there are no known problems with the add-in ISV Support. The ISV has committed to support the add-in on ProPlus. This information helps you better plan an upgrade by knowing how many of the add-ins are expected to work seamlessly with ProPlus and how widely add-ins with potential issues are used within your organization and in which specific departments. Example of readiness reports include the following: Office 365 ProPlus readiness for add-ins Detailed view of Office 365 ProPlus readiness for add-ins VBA Macro Readiness For enterprises that rely on macro-enabled Office documents to perform business critical tasks, we are pleased to announce the new VBA Readiness Tool. This tool is designed to help your organization identify the most commonly used documents and determine if you are likely to encounter any compatibility issues. Compatibility issues are rare for most enterprises. The VBA Readiness Tool provides a report to quantify these issues for your enterprise. How it Works The VBA Readiness Tool works by scanning each PC to gather an inventory of the most recently used documents that contain VBA code. Documents that include VBA code, will be analyzed against a list of all known compatibility issues to determine if you are likely to encounter issues with the file after upgrading to ProPlus. The detailed report gives you all the information and confidence you need to plan your upgrade and to remedy any combability issues. 64-bit COM Controls Many Office users rely on the power of macros and forms to get tasks done. Some of these macros use Common Controls to create user interfaces or other such functions for users. Today, these Common Controls only work with the 32-bit version of Office. We're working to ensure a great experience on 64-bit Office and we will be releasing an update to our ProPlus client which brings 64-bit support to the Common Controls. The following nine controls will be included in the update: Once this update is rolled out later this year, taking advantage of 64-bit Common Controls will be seamless for users, with existing solutions continuing to work as they do today (though you may separately need to update your use of things like Declare statements, which you can read more about on MSDN). We are excited to bring 64-bit support to the Common Controls for Office ProPlus. We look forward to hearing your feedback. Office add-in report available in Windows Upgrade Analytics We announced the general availability of Upgrade Analytics in February 2017. Upgrade Analytics is a free tool helping organizations move to Windows 10. Learn more at http://technet.microsoft.com/itpro/windows/deploy/upgrade-readiness-get-started This tool also provides an inventory of Office add-in used within your organization. If your organization is planning a combined Windows 10 and Office ProPlus rollout, this tool is a one-stop shop to access both Windows application and Office add-in readiness. Pilot Program While all the tools listed in this blog are releasing later in 2017, we are accepting a limited number of enterprises into a pilot program. If you’d like to participate in this pilot program and are willing to share feedback with Microsoft, please let us know at ReadyForOffice@microsoft.com.Community Maintenance
Hi all, As some of you may have noticed there are changes being made throughout the Microsoft 365 Community to help better categorize and make all content more discoverable. This work will be ongoing throughout today and may lead to some undesirable experiences, please accept our apologies. We are aware that the process we use to change labels was incorrectly setup when this work began and so I would like to apologize to anyone who has received multiple edit e-mails from us. This has now been corrected and you should not receive any more emails while this work continues. ** Update at 3:45pm Pacific - 04/05/2022 ** Unfortunately the problem with the missing messages at the top of the Microsoft 365 community is taking longer to fix than we expected. This maintence has been but on hold until this bug is fixed, we will share more information as it becomes available. Until further notice please click into the board your interested in, in this community, to see the messages that are within it. Allen Technical Lead Microsoft Tech CommunityWhat's New blog for June 2021 is live!
In this month's blog, we discuss the General Availability of Inventory for Microsoft 365 Apps admin center and a new Unattended License option, we share a story from Microsoft partner and customer, Avanade, and we bring you two new videos to the Office Deployment Insiders YouTube channel featuring Principal Marketing Manager, Amesh Mansukhani. Check out the latest What's New blog from the team below: What’s new in Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise – June 2021 - Microsoft Tech CommunityNew add-in inventory report for Configuration Manager
Today a new report was released to the GitHub community site that allows you to collect and view an inventory of the Office Add-ins that are in use by the clients that you manage with System Center Configuration Manager (2012 R2 or later). This report gathers the inventory of each Office add-in that is installed as well as the device that has it installed and the status (enabled, disabled) allowing you to determine which add-ins are in use as well as the impact based on the number of installations. This report also provides a link to Microsoft's Office ProPlus Add-in Readiness report which you can view from http://aka.ms/addinreadiness. To get this new report, download it directly from GitHub at https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/tree/master/Office-ProPlus-Management/Get-OfficeAddins
OneNote 2016 - Deactivate Ribbons/ Buttons
Hello everybody, we deactivate various buttons in the menu bar via the Group Policy for Office 2016. For this we use the ID numbers from the "Microsoft Office Fluent user interface" (MOFUI). For all products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) we have hidden the respective icons in the policies under "Disabele Items in User Interface > Custom > Disable Commands". For OneNote 2016 the respective IDs for deactivating specific icons also exist in the MOFUI. But where in the policies are the IDs entered ? The policy structure for OneNote 2016 is completely different from the one for Word etc.. Does anyone have a tip for me ? Many thanks in advance... TorbenNew video on "Microsoft 365 Apps & SCCM - Everything you need to know"
Ranger team here! We've published a new video which covers everything you need to know when it comes to Microsoft 365 Apps and SCCM. BobClements covers everything from initial config, deployment, managing updates and reporting, paired with best practices and tips&tricks. Check it out: As always, please follow us on YouTube and we are looking forward to your questions & feedback, either on this thread or over on YouTube.
New video: How to accelerate your Microsoft 365 Apps updates!
#Admins, Microsoft released new security updates for the Microsoft 365 Apps, and now you need to expedite the deployment? You feel the security team's breath down your neck to get things out of the door ASAP? Outlook CVE anyone? Speed is key?! Check out the new video from the #RangerTeam on how to expedite Microsoft 365 Apps updates. We cover Intune, group policies, SCCM and more. https://youtu.be/g5VfSMlpJn0 #RangerTeam #OfficeUpdates #SecurityIsKey
