Update: New upgrade readiness tools for Office 365 ProPlus
Update: The the https://support.office.com/article/9b0b48f2-1937-4b10-8274-1ccdb2f5d019 for Office add-ins and VBA is now available for download. Read more about it on our new post and https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55983and 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 mailto: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 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee819096(v=office.16).aspx 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, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/gg264421.aspx). 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 https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/upgradeanalytics/2017/03/02/announcing-general-availability-of-upgrade-readiness/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 mailto:ReadyForOffice@microsoft.com.Unable to "Open in Excel", "Open in Word", etc from SharePoint Online in Chrome
This works for some people, and worked for me in the past. But I am no longer able to: "Open in Word" "Open in PowerPoint" "Open in Excel" Using Office 365 Pro Plus, Deferred Channel, using Chrome 32 bit (up to date). If I open a file, it will open in Excel Online first, then I select "Edit in Excel", i'll get an application handler popup, but then nothing happens. This is the same result for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Skype for Business (joining meetings). I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Office 365 Pro Plus and Chrome several times now. Can anyone think of anything to resolve this, or has anyone run into this before. Its a bit perplexing.
Office 365 Pro Plus - Closes All Office apps when updates are deployed
We are currently testing Office 365 Pro Plus in hopes to replace the Office 2016 MSI install. We have Office 365 Pro Plus deployed as follows : <Configuration> <Add OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel="Current" Version="16.0.8625.2132" OfficeMgmtCOM="True"> <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail"> <Language ID="en-us" /> <ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" /> <ExcludeApp ID="Groove" /> <ExcludeApp ID="OneDrive" /> </Product> </Add> <Display AcceptEULA="TRUE" /> <Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="0" /> <Property Name="PinIconsToTaskbar" Value="FALSE" /> <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" /> <Property Name="ForceAppShutdown" Value="FALSE" /> </Configuration> We have updates being pushed through configuration manager. The updates get passed the machine and when they go to install the updates, it forces all office applications to close without any notification to the user. This is problematic esp since we are a SfB house. We have a SCCM DSE that i've ran this through and we've troubleshot this for a few days but we can't really find a way to either have the updates installed WITHOUT closing the apps or notify the user that the applications need to close in order to apply the update. Has anyone see this behavior before? Any suggestions to get the outcome that we desire?New Office 365 ProPlus Update Channel Names
Announced a while back, the new Office 365 ProPlus channel names officially kick in today. ODT has been updated (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49117) with support for the updated channel names. Here are the new names as they would be configured in the appropriate configuration file. Channel="Monthly" Channel="Targeted" Channel="Broad" Channel="Insiders" The relevant documentation has been updated - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Deployment-guide-for-Office-365-ProPlus-f99f8cd0-e648-4834-8f45-f5637351899d.
Default Office theme uses Times New Roman everywhere, not Calibri
On a few different tenants I have, the default Office theme (called "Office") seems to have changed the default font back to good old Times New Roman, instead of Calibri. I thought it had something to do with my production tenant, but when I tried a couple of other tenants and installed ProPlus there I have the same problem. Furthermore, when you look at the Theme settings, it appears that Calibri should still be used - but it doesn't: Has anyone seen this too? When I install a traditional Office 2016 Professional Plus (volume license, msi) I get the right behaviour.New 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
Office C2R Version 1711 8730.2127 - This product will not be updated.
Anyone else lose the ability to update Office after receiving Version 1711 8730.2127? I had a colleague who couldn't reproduce the error with previous Office bits then he updated to Version 1711 8730.2127 and now receives the same options as I do below. Clicking on enable updates does not help.
