So, if we’re gonna be removing and redeploying these Apps, we need them not to be open, right? I’m going to break this list down into sections and tackle them one at a time.

So the core piece to take away from that KB article is the following action list: You’re familiar with running scripts and deploying MAS Apps via your management platform of choice.You have bought enough Volume Purchase Program (VPP) licenses of each of the Microsoft Office Suite Macs to cover your deployment.The MAS Applications do not (currently?) support volume licensing Your users are licensing these Applications by logging into their Office 365 account on launch.Please Note: There are a few assumptions made with this post: Luckily, the team at Microsoft did an amazing job of documenting the high level steps in order to migrate those users, which can be found here. In order to switch from these deployed installers to MAS distribution you’ll need to perform a few more steps than just trashing the old Apps and deploying the new ones! Up until now, most Mac Admins have been deploying these Apps from the macadmins.software webpage, either directly or via AutoPKG recipes. IntroductionĮarlier this month, Microsoft fulfilled a promise made at WWDC 2018 and released the Office Suite on the Mac App Store (MAS)! Ben (aka Mac Mule) covered the release information on his blog here. In this post, I will outline and provide details of a possible workflow to migrate from your package installed Microsoft Office for Mac Suite Applications, to Mac App Store distribution. Hi All, welcome to a new blog series I’m tempted to call “Ben challenged me to…” 😉

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