Let’s Intune Office 365 Pro Plus Suite to Windows 10/11. The video below show how to deploy office 365 via Intune on the Microsoft Blog
Office 365 is now more important than ever for any organization. Intune now includes an out-of-the-box feature to deploy Microsoft Office Pro Plus on Windows 10 devices.
In this method, Office Pro Plus is installed using Windows 10 or Windows 11 CSP via Intune. The Office configuration service provider (CSP) enables a Microsoft Office client to be installed on a device. The CSP to enable Office pro plus installation was added in Windows.
We must use Office 365 ProPlus licenses to activate Office 365 ProPlus apps deployed through Microsoft Intune.
Create Intune Mobile Apps for Office 365 Pro Plus Deployment
Navigate via Intune blade in the Azure portal – Microsoft Azure – Microsoft Intune – Apps (Windows). Create a new app with the “+Add” button.
Select “office 365 Pro Plus Suite (Windows 11)” application type. This application type can be used when you want to assign Office 365 Pro Plus apps to Windows 10 devices with Intune.
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Microsoft 365 Apps for Windows 10 and later. Add Microsoft 365 Apps to install your choice of Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows 10 or later managed devices. Users must have an account and license to use these apps.
Click on Select.
Intune Deploy office 365 Pro Plus Suite to Windows 11
Microsoft 365 Apps for Windows 10 and later
Microsoft 365 Apps for Windows 10 and later app configuration time now. You will need to enter the suite name, and suite description, and then click on the Next button. All this information on the first page will be automatically filled in.
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Intune Deploy office 365 Pro Plus Suite to Windows 11
Configure App Suite – Select the Office 365 apps you want to install as part of the suite. Word and Excel are the applications I selected to deploy in this scenario. You can also add Additional Office apps – If you own licenses for these additional Office apps, you can also assign them with Intune (Project and Visio).
App Suite Information – Suite Name, Suite Description, and Publisher are the mandatory fields of this section. I have enabled the “Display this app in the company portal” option as part of Intune O365 App suite information policy.
App suite Settings – Configure installations option for the office 365 pro plus. Which version of the office do you want to install? 64/32 bit? Another important option is that you can select the update channel of office 365.
There are also out of box options in Intune to the auto-accept end user license agreements. Another out-of-box option available is “Use shared computer activation.” More details about “How to Deploy office 365 Pro Plus Suite to Windows 10 via Intune” is available in the video here.
Intune Deploy office 365 Pro Plus Suite to Windows 11
You can select Intune Deploy configuration for office 365 Pro Plus Suite to Windows 11 from the following options in Intune portal. You can manually create the Configuration.xml from Office Customization Tool – Products and releases. You can also export the Configuration.xml file to Intune MEM admin center.
Configure app suite details should be put in: App suite information – These settings apply to all apps you have selected in the suite. Architecture – 32-bit and 64-bit
Remove other old MSI versions of – Yes or No Version to install Office 2021 or 365 – Latest or Specific. You have an option to use shared computer activation – Yes or No Intune can Accept the Microsoft Software License Terms on behalf of users – Yes/No You have an opportunity to Install background service for Microsoft Search in Bing – Yes/No Select Primary Languages from the Languages section – No languages selected
MEM Intune Deploy office 365 Pro Plus Suite to Windows 11
Deployment of Office 365 Application
Let’s check the Deployment of the Office 365 Application. I have selected Azure AD user groups to deploy Office 365 Pro Plus app. The deployment/assignment type that I have chosen is “Required.”
Deployment of Office 365 Application
End-User Experience of Office 365 Pro Plus on Windows 11
However, I couldn’t find the Office 365 Pro Plus application listed in the company portal app even though I selected the option “Display this app in the company portal.”
After the restart of the machine, the apps Excel and Word were already installed on the device without any user interaction. The installation of apps will take time, depending on your internet speed.