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How to manage the First Run screens that appear when Microsoft Office 2013...
OverviewMicrosoft Office 2013 shows the following screens when an application is launched for the first time:More InformationBoth the Office Customization Tool (OCT) and Group Policy Management Editor...
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How to manage the Start screen for all Microsoft Office 2013 applications
OverviewUnlike earlier versions of Microsoft Office, the Microsoft Office 2013 applications, when started, show a Start screen similar to the following, rather than opening the default blank template:...
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How to manage the First Run screens that appear when Microsoft Office 2013...
OverviewMicrosoft Office 2013 shows the following screens when an application is launched for the first time:More InformationBoth the Office Customization Tool (OCT) and Group Policy Management Editor...
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How to manage the Start screen for all Microsoft Office 2013 applications
OverviewUnlike earlier versions of Microsoft Office, the Microsoft Office 2013 applications, when started, show a Start screen similar to the following, rather than opening the default blank template:...
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...
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Deploying 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....
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Rolling 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...
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Users 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...
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Install/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...
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How 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...
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Issues 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...
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Office 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...
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How 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...
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Message “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...
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Message “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....
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