The new Update Now feature for Office 2013 Click-to-Run for Office365 and its...
Background:The SP1 release of Microsoft Office 2013 Click-to-Run for Office365 offers a new Update Now feature on the File | Accounts (backstage) page of each Office application:More Information:This...
View ArticleUpdating Office 365 Clients from a Network Location
The first step in configuring local Office 365 updating is to download the Office media using the Office Deployment Tool. See the following article for more information on downloading and installing...
View ArticleOffice 365 ProPlus (2016) Couldn't Install error 30015-1007 (123) when trying...
Background When you attempt to download the Office 365 ProPlus from the Microsoft content delivery network (CDN) using the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) you get the following message: More Information...
View ArticleOffice 365 ProPlus (2016) Couldn't Install error 30029-1007 (0) when trying...
Background When you attempt to install Office 365 ProPlus from a local folder using the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) you get the following message: More Information This occurs when you have a relative...
View ArticleHow do I stay on Office ProPlus 2013?
For Enterprise Customers using Office 365 ProPlus, users will be migrated to the latest version in February of 2016. If you want your users to stay on Office 2013 and continue to receive 2013 security...
View ArticleSupported scenarios when installing multiple Office Products
We always recommend only having one version of Office on a machine and we recommend you use our most current versions. Having said that, there are times that due to adoption, testing, budget or...
View ArticleLync 2013 Shortcut Icon doesn’t change to Skype for Business after updating...
Issue: When customers install Office Professional Plus 2013 MSI or Lync 2013 MSI standalone and use the Office Customization Tool (OCT) to change the default Start Menu Shortcut path, after installing...
View ArticleDeploying Office 2016, 2013 or 2010 using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
This blog was submitted by Jeremy Chapman, director on the Office team Many organizations use the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to deploy Windows with Office to new computers or when re-imaging...
View ArticleChanges to monthly Public Updates schedule for MSI-based updates
Starting April, 2016, MSI-based non-security updates will be released on the first Tuesday of each month and MSI-based security updates will be released (as usual) on the second Tuesday of each month....
View ArticleRolling your Office 2013 ProPlus clients back to the March build due to...
After you install the April 5, 2016, update for Outlook 2013 (KB3114941), you may experience random crashes of Microsoft Lync 2013 (Skype for Business) or Microsoft Outlook 2013, or both. This issue is...
View ArticleUsers are being offered “Get the new Office” business bar to upgrade to 2016
Issue: If your organization has not taken steps to prevent the upgrade, users will start seeing the following business bar in their Office applications: Resolution: If you would like to stop...
View ArticleInstall/Update errors using the latest version of the Office Deployment Tool...
Issue: After the recent release of the Office Deployment Tool version 16.0.7118.5775 users are seeing issues with installs/updates due to not having the V32.cab data file come down with the source...
View ArticleHow big was this month’s Office ProPlus update?
Office 365 updates are designed to be very network bandwidth friendly. There is Binary Delta Compression that occurs so long as the machines are staying current and Office has built in throttles to...
View ArticleIssues activating Office 2013 click-to-run clients with Shared Computer...
We have an emerging issue where some clients that are using Shared Computer Activation (SCA) on our Office 2013 click-to-run clients cannot sign in. Users are seeing an error similar to this when...
View ArticleOffice 365 ProPlus (2016) Couldn't Install error 30029-1007 (0) when trying...
Background When you attempt to install Office 365 ProPlus from a local folder using the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) you get the following message: More Information This occurs when you have a relative...
View Article“Sorry, there was a problem while trying to connect to your account with...
**UPDATE** Our investigation determined that a certificate was recently deployed to replace an expiring certificate; however, we failed to initiate a process to whitelist the new certificate. We’ve...
View ArticleHow to ‘Switch Channels’ for Office 2016 ProPlus
Starting Office 2016 ProPlus, we have 3 production channels, namely Current, Deferred and First release for Deferred Channel. Each channel receives features updates, security and non-security updates...
View ArticleMessage “Your admin has turned off Visio installs…” from the O365 Portal
You may find that end users are receiving the following message when attempting to download/install Visio or Project from the O365 Portal. Visio Install Visio Your admin has turned off Visio installs....
View ArticleHow do I stay on Office ProPlus 2013?
For Enterprise Customers using Office 365 ProPlus, users will be migrated to the latest version in February of 2016. If you want your users to stay on Office 2013 and continue to receive 2013 security...
View Article‘Update Now’ gone from Office backstage after build 1708 when configured to...
Starting on Version 1708 the ‘Update Now’ from the Office 365 Application backstage is no longer visible if the Office installation is also configured to receive updates through SCCM. This change was...
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