Office 365 / 2019 Deployment Question
Can a local folder, instead of a UNC path, be specified for the UpdatePath in the xml or GPO? Here's an example from my XML I'm testing: <Updates Enabled="TRUE" UpdatePath="C:\MSOfficeC2RCache" /> I don't want all users to update Office from the internet at once, and I need to roll out the updates in waves to users after properly testing. I am on an older build of SCCM that doesn't support managing Office 2019 C2R installations; I can only manage Office 365 ProPlus C2R with our current build of SCCM. (Do newer builds of SCCM currently support managing Office 2019 C2R?) I know that I can point UpdatePath to "\\server\MSOfficeC2RCache" to control updates rollouts, but I also don't want each remote office to update directly from one central server across the WAN, but I'd rather roll out the updates to the local cache folder like I mentioned above, which will clear out the older version of updates so that the computers don't have more than the latest version of updates available in the local cache folder.
Setting up remote web application without AD
I have bought a windows server 2019 and would like to give some users access to a accounting system, and only that application. We are talking of max 5 people, so I do not want to setup an AD for this matter. After installing the terminal server and its needs, I am able to let the users into the server and they can run the application. I am not able to setup a remote App without AD. Is there a way of doing that? I have tried running the mstsc command but then the application is not responding as it should... some buttons are missing...config.office.com gets a face lift and a few new features
On Monday, Sept 24 2018 at Ignite the Office team unveiled the new look for config.office.com as well as the addition of a few new deployment features to help you deploy Click-to-run Office products. The interface has been updated to ease navigation when using the full experience in the web browser and also optimized for the embedded experience for those of you who are using the Office Client Application Wizard in Configuration Manager (as of Current Branch 1806). New deployment features like MatchOS, Fallback to the CDN and RemoveMSI have been added making it easy to build more complex and capable deployment configurations. One of the most anticipated features allows you to include Office app settings with the deployment settings, allowing you to set the user preferences for Office according to how your organization uses Office. Take a look at the session from Ignite 2018 to see an overview of the new experience and a review of the deployment options available. Session code THR2022 – https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/64635
What CDN endpoints do we need to open in proxy servers to allow download of latest Office 2019
Hi, We are configuring deployments of Office 2019 to a number of different customer sites with different proxy / firewall setups. We are using a local server share for deployment of Office 2019 to the clients so this server will need to download the latest Office 2019 versions from the Office CDN. And this is automated with a local system task to get the latest version each month for security updates. What URLs do we need to whitelist to avoid problems with proxy authentication and firewalls? I have had a look at the Office 365 endpoints and the full list https://endpoints.office.com/endpoints/worldwide?clientrequestid=b10c5ed1-bad1-445f-b386-b919946339a7 . But the customers are only using Office 2019 at the moment so they don't need to do all of these endpoints. In the full list there is a CDN.office.net which sounds hopeful but I can't find any dns records for that. So what are the URLs used to download Office 2019? Thanks, Nigel
Word Add-In Deployment
Hi there, I am trying to deploy an add-in for some users for MS Word (right now we're just testing so it is limited just to a few people in our IT Dept.). We are trying to deploy the DocuSign add-in. I have done this through the Integrated Apps section of the O365 Admin Centre and applied it to a Security Group in our Active Directory. The issue we are facing is, when deploying the add-in it does not seem to want to automatically install on most of our users' MS Word applications (we did have 2 test users who said it was automatically installed). What we've had to do for the other test users is go to the "Get Add-ins" section of MS Word and click on "Admin Managed", then click on DocuSign to add it to the ribbon. Is there some setting somewhere that would have it automatically installed on our users' systems as opposed to having them add it manually? Thanks!
How to add file attachment button to my Teams bot?
Dear community, Recently I created a new chatbot application using python and flask framework. It's working good and deployed in Teams as well. Then I planned add file attachment options but unfortunately I couldn't find attachment button in my Teams chatbot! For R&D purpose I tried below sample codes: https://github.com/microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/main/samples/python/15.handling-attachments https://github.com/microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/main/samples/python/56.teams-file-upload Can anyone guide how to add file attachment button in Teams chatbot app? Thank you.Sharepoint Online Code repository and continuous deployment
We are working on maintaining Sharepoint-Online themes, page layouts, styles (css, html, images from masterpage & siteassets) in git repository & continuous integration of changes to Dev, UAT & Prod environment. This is just the start of Sharepoint work. We will use VSTS for managing all these work. My question is: 1- We have some custom templates (html & css) specific to company & some templates provided by microsoft as part of sharepoint. We were planning to maintain only custom templates in git repository & not microsoft provided templates (because we are not going to change in m/s templates.). Can anyone please suggest whether this as per microsoft guidelines.? Is there any standard documentation provided by microsoft for organizing these files in source control ? 2- How to maintain testing environment for development changes ? Should we go for Sandbox approach or follow the approach mentioned in https://sharepointologic.blogspot.com/2017/01/sharepoint-online-continuous-delivery_17.html ? We have different site collection for Dev / UAT & Prod environment. If going through second approach then to verify every change, developer need push code to site collection. What is the best approach suggested by Microsoft ? I found a useful link but not able to decide : https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/82781/how-to-setup-development-and-uat-for-sharepoint-online-multitenant?newreg=cc9cc6db7e64476ca7b26e246f29b30b Please suggest
SCCM + Office 365 + Several Configuration.XML file (EN/FR)
Hi everyone, I'm building a Sequence Task in SCCM where it's possible to choose the language ( usign HTA script). For each language, we install the appropiated LP for Windows & i wish to do the same for Office 365. In order to realise this, i've downloaded all the language ( 7 in total ) from a single configuration.xml - so my office source contains all LPs. After that i've created 7 different XML file ( one for each language ) & 7 SCCM programs to call them. Sadly when i want to used the command setup.exe /configure configuration-FR.xml (for example ) it doesn't seems to work w/ the office folder included all the language. It's only work if i only keep file necessary for FR LP only So do i have to maintain one Office source for each language ? (means 2.5Gig * 7) or is there some other approach to reduce this and keep only one source folder ? Please note we want to avoid an installation w/ all LP on every machine. Thx for your help. Bonjour à tous, Nous avons crée une séquence de tache embarquant 7 langues ( à choisir via un script HTA ). Pour chaque langue, nous n'installons que le language pack approprié pour Windows & je souhaiterais faire de même pour office 365. Nous avons donc mis les 7 langues dans un fichiers configuration.xml & avons téléchargé les sources qui sont dont dans le répertoire "office". Suite à cela nous avons créer 7 fichiers de configuration ( 1 par langue ) & 7 programs pour appeler ces fichiers. Malheureusement, en effectuant la commande setup.exe /configure configurationFR.xml ( par exemple ), cela ne fonctionne pas avec le répertoire source office qui comprends toutes les langues. Cela fonctionne uniquement lorsque les sources office comprennent uniquement le nécessaire pour le langage FR. Donc dois-je maintenir un répertoire source par langue (7*2.5gig ) ou y'a-t-il un moyen d'utiliser seulement un répertoire source ? Merci de noter qu'installer Office 365 avec les 7 langues est un point à écarter. Merci d'avance pour votre aide.Configuring your Exchange hybrid deployment, in a nutshell
This less than 5-min video provides key information on how to setup an Exchange Hybrid Deployment. In addition, the articles below contain updates on topics covered by this video, along with their main takeaways, in bold. Subtitles in brazilian portuguese (my native language) are also available, which can be enabled/disabled from the built-in YouTube player. Enjoy!!! Hybrid deployment best practices "Should we have a hybrid specific URL? - We have seen deployments where a decision is made to keep the existing Mail.Contoso.com and Autodiscover.Contoso.com pointing to a bank of Exchange 2010 servers and have a new hybrid URL, such as hybrid.Contoso.com, pointing to a couple of Exchange 2013 servers. This is an example of an environment that did not introduce Exchange 2013 in a recommended way. "Some might ask: “Can I keep just my hybrid server up to date?” The answer: there is no such thing as a “hybrid server” (meaning that companies shouldn't add Exchange servers exclusively for hybrid, unless the sizing says it differently). What this question is really asking is: “Can I just update the server were I plan to run the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) from?” The answer to that is “No.”" Hybrid deployment prerequisites "Before you create and configure a hybrid deployment using the Hybrid Configuration wizard, your existing on-premises Exchange organization needs to meet certain requirements. If you don't meet these requirements, you won't be able to complete the steps within the Hybrid Configuration wizard and you won't be able to configure a hybrid deployment between your on-premises Exchange organization and Exchange Online." Exchange Queue & A: Handling hybrid environments "With older hybrid servers—that is, hybrid servers running Exchange 2010—you need to create an Autodiscover record in DNS for all SMTP domains. Also, the SAN certificate has to include all used autodiscover DNS records in the SAN list. With the Autodiscover domain feature, you have the option of setting one of your SMTP domains as the Autodiscover domain. This is indeed a great new feature of Exchange Server 2013." Introducing the Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard "This article tells you what’s new and shows you how to run the wizard. We also explain the various issues that have been addressed with the new Wizard, and touch on some of the telemetry we pull with every run of the wizard." Hybrid Configuration wizard "This topic gives you an overview of the Exchange hybrid deployment configuration process, hybrid deployment features and options available to you, and the Hybrid Configuration Engine, which executes the core actions necessary for both configuring and updating a hybrid deployment." Exchange Hybrid Product Key Distribution Add multiple domains to Office 365 *** UPDATE on 10/17/2017: Added a note to the top of this post to make it clear that there's actually not such a thing as hybrid servers. Thanks so much Tiago Souza for the feedback!
