When using the setup engine from the Office Deployment Tool, it can operate in the following two modes: The choice you need to make depends on your environment, for example if the virtual machine used for the reference image creation process has access to internet or not. Deploy from the cloud or using downloaded installation filesĪt this point it’s time to make a choice. What would we have to do to simply avoid the product activation? Easy, we just have to run the installation silently using the following addition to our setup XML file:

Don’t save the Office 365 ProPlus setup file from the Office 365 portal and run it, activation occurs automatically.

Don’t sign into the Office 365 portal and install Office 365 ProPlus from the software page.

It’s important that you don’t have any kind of Office 365 ProPlus product key installed in your reference image

Even if you cancel out from that prompt, a temporary activation key is installed.

Don’t open any Office applications, that will trigger a sign-in prompt.Here’s a list of steps to avoid if you’re for any reason suspending your reference image creation process and manually configuring things: Something to point out when including Office 365 ProPlus is that you’d never allow it to activate, that’ll break things and you’d have to start over. If you’re unfamiliar with creating reference images with MDT, check out the following well documented process of getting started with creating a Windows 10 reference image from the official Microsoft documentation: Internet access to download the Office 365 ProPlus software to your network.Download the Office 2016 version of the Office Deployment Tool, available here.

MDT Deployment Share configured for creating reference images.Make sure that you have the following configured and operational: What’s requiredīefore you continue to follow the instructions in this post, there’s a few things that needs to be in order. In this blog post, I’ll cover the steps necessary to include Office 365 ProPlus in your Windows 10 reference image that will be created using MDT. The discussion whether to include Office applications in your reference image or not, is something I’m going to leave up to you to make a decision about based upon all of the information available on the internet regarding that subject. With AutoPilot trending on twitter and in organizations around the world, we’re still creating reference images to support any existing solutions in place.

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