O365 Shared Install Prompts

[murbot]

Hi,

  What is the expected behavior when installing O365 on a base Win 7 x64 image?

Should each vdi user get prompted to "accept and start [office app name]" the first time they open the app?

Should each vdi user get prompted to sign in?

     If yes, should they get this prompt every time they logon (in between recomposing)?

Our configuration.xml file for o365 shared setup:

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<Configuration>

    <Add SourcePath="C:\O365" OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel="Current">

        <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">

            <Language ID="en-us"/>

                    <ExcludeApp ID="Onedrive" />

                    <ExcludeApp ID="Outlook" />

        </Product>

    </Add>

    <Updates Enabled="TRUE" Channel="Current"/>

    <Display Level="Full" AcceptEULA="TRUE"/>

    <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1"/>

    <Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN" Value="FALSE"/>

    <Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="1"/>

    <Property Name="PinIconsToTaskbar" Value="FALSE"/>

</Configuration>

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[jonathanjabez]

Installing 0365 Shared version is fully supported. You may install it on the master image and recompose your VDI Pool. When user logs in, upon launching the Office products, it would prompt for an activation. User may register the product using their registered email address. In floating non-persistent VDI pools, you may backup this config using VMware UEM and you can activate automatically every time when user logs in to a new session.

[murbot]

Thank you

Would you have a link that explains how to backup the O365 config with the UEM? Or is that just part of each user's stored UEM profile?

I've found GPO suggestions, but haven't found a reference to backing up the 0365 configuration.

GPO suggestions from VMware...

Best Practices for Delivering Microsoft Office 365 in VMware Horizon 7 | VMware

Thanks again for the help.