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Hi,

New to Office 365 subscription.

All these year we used MS Office 2013/2016 standalone desktop license installations.

When we move to Office365 subscriptions and go with different types of license types available.

Microsoft 365 Business Standard and other 365 subscriptions.

How do you usually install the MS office 365 on the end user computer ?

  1. Do you use Office-One-Click install which shows up by default in Windows 10 Pro 64-bit in add remove programs ?

  2. Do we need to download the Office365 installer from our Office365 admin console and install it ?

  3. If we go with the option(2) is the installer tied to the email id or account for which it is setup ?

  4. If we are using it for SMB with 30 users, can we just download one single installer (offline or online) on our network once and install on the computers ?

  5. Is the Office365 installer different for each subscription type, like Office365 basic,standard,premium ? or its the same installer and based on the account id it just unlocks the programs ?

Any other suggestions are welcome.

Thanks

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You can do an online or offline installer. I have a single .exe file that I downloaded from the O365 website and use that for my installs. It starts and basically auto downloads the most up to date version and installs the suite.

The user can also log in online and from the user portal download and install as well. (I believe you can turn this function off if needed)

O365 is tied to the users account and licensed that way as well.

I have used O365 for many years. Let me know if you have any other questions or clarifications.

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I use the Office Deployment Tool for all my customers - it allows me to choose what components I want installed, allows for deployment from a local source instead of having to download from the web each time, lets me define the update channel I want, etc.

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There are a couple ways of doing this. I normally download the installer after logging in to o365 on the web and install it. If its a manual install you can keep it on a thumb drive or you can install it on an image and it will be on the image you push to the machine. You then activate it once they sign in.

Another way of doing it would be have them sign into the portal and download it.

I prefer the first method.

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Unless things changed, this ties the install to the account used to download the installer and shows up as the “belongs to” area of the account information in the apps regardless of the account that “activates” it.

This cause a lot of grief for me when I unknowingly did it this way. Things may have changed since then.

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We will remove access to the end user to download and install it themselves.

As admin we wanted to download a single exe file and save in our network,so we can do the installations.

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That is exactly the setup we use @spr1 ​

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This is what I wanted to know if the downloaded installer is tied to the account from where it is downloaded ?

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It is not. When the user logs in it will ask to be activated. At that point it will be tied to their account. When you install it do not activate it with your O365 account. Either use theirs or have them use theirs.

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So it doesn’t matter from which Office365 account we download the .EXE file ?

We can use this single exe to install on all the computers, except when it comes to activate the license,we just need to have the end user

type their email id and pwd ?

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It definitely used to be. I do not know if that is still the case - I started using the ODT and never looked back.

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It’s normally tied to the user that’s logged into it. That’s why you need to enable a license for them in the portal so they can login to use it. If you disable the account and someone else logs in then there should not be any issues with licensing as long as the new person has a license assigned to them.

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We don’t user any custom image for new PC setup.

We format old PC and reinstall Windows 10 if needed.

Or on new Dell PCs when we search for “Office” it does show

Office app in Windows 10 Apps & features

Can we use this for our Office365 subscription (or) we need to uninstall the default Office app and then download the .EXE file from our Office365 account ?
MS_office_app_default.jpg

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Give me a few and I will test this out. I have a few new Dell laptops I’m about to spin up.

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@da-schmoo ​ @spr1 ​

If the end user downloads it it will be tied to them. If an admin downloads it from the admin console it will not be tied to anyone until they open one of the apps and activate it.

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I just tested on a brand new dell laptop and you can use the pre-installed Office suite and it will ask them to log in on first use. It will then tie it to their O365 account.

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On the default Office app on a new PC, once we activate based on user account, hoping it will

activate all the apps as per the license.

Following apps are part of

Microsoft 365 Business Standard

(formerly Office 365 Business Premium)

ms_office_365_business_standard_apps.jpg

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If we download the EXE from admin console and if it will not be tied to any account, then its good.

We can save this EXE file in our network and on any PC we can install it, and when it asks for activation then we can ask the end user to type their email id and pwd

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Why not use the ODT so you don’t have to wait for each install to download from the web?

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Yes it will activate all apps. You can also activate by opening one of the apps as well. Not just the default Office app. And that will also license all of those.

And you are correct on your second post as well. That’s exactly how it works.

I like to do the download because it grabs the latest version and do not have to update it later.

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