Hi,
We’re still using the VL version but it is very much in my mind to plan to move to C2R as we find more and more users asking why functionality is missing compared to their home machines which are using C2R.
I expect that sometime in the more distant future C2R will be the only supported clients for O365.
C2R updates are easy to manage if you use SCCM as this has a node specifically for this purpose and you can use automatic deployment rules to stagger the updates and target rings as you would for Windows 10 updates.
This is probably achievable with GPOs as well but SCCM would be preferable.
There is some useful information on shared devices here:
http://boards.microsoft.com/public/item/143236?token=f55452094b
and
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Overview-of-shared-computer-activation-for-Office-365-ProPlus-836f882c-8ff6-4f19-8b24-0212e0111c94?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB
You’ll need to configure device/shared based activation for IT Labs etc.
Moving from VL to C2R requires running the Office scrubbing tools to remove all VL installs before installing C2R. It is quite easily achieved through SCCM and Microsoft provide a script to do this (see above
link). It doesn’t take all that long as the C2R install is very fast and it is something you can stick in your Application Catalog and let users run it for themselves.
C2R I believe does use some elements of App-V technology but the Office instance is visible to other apps as well as the OS so you don’t require the usual App-V things like connection groups to get add-ins working.
From what I have seen the majority of add-ins which support Office 2016 will work out of the box with C2R Office 365 Pro Plus.
You can deliver C2R Office with remote app but you’ll need to use shared device setup as you would in a lab because you have multiple users on a single box.
C2R is easy to include in a task sequence/OS deployment (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Deploy-Office-365-ProPlus-as-part-of-an-operating-system-image-16cf763b-78a4-43dc-b05f-3efade197c0d) and is also
very simple to deploy via InTune for your MDM only devices (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/08/10/deploying-office-365-proplus-with-microsoft-intune/).
Alex
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From: Support issues for windows in UK HE & FE [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Cochrane, Peter
Sent: 21 September 2017 10:55
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Subject: Office Click to Run
Hi, has anyone moved to or run a pilot of Office Click to Run yet…?
I’d welcome any insight into your findings from roll outs or pilots to either your staff or student environments. In short, MS are pushing us to this but with little detailed info (that I can find) on the implications. Project online is
my current issue, but other features only available in CtR have cropped up.
Office is a key app (we have SfB on prem as our primary telephone system) and I simply don’t have a good enough understanding for the implications of the change. I think I’ve done the reading that exists i.e. they can’t run together, ODT
can do online or offline, Project and Visio still use KMS etc…
But detail and implications are lacking, my key areas of concern are:
Licensing implications, impact upon current campus agreements etc – our Purchasing team are working on this, but it’s not clear to me at this time.
How it works (single, multi-user, machine?), how does it license itself (one assumes you don’t always need an internet connection)?
How it updates (permissions and control), can a user do it, can we control it…are GPs available and similar to the MSI versions?
It is streamed / virtualised with a flavour of App-V (I guess similar to UWA - AppX) but seemingly no streaming services run (I’m guessing this means our existing App-V apps will be unaffected)?
Its support for plugins, which I assume is none until the vendors re-work them?
Can RemoteApp be used as an interim to Provide CtR (whole package or individual apps)?
Anyone with insights into the above would be greatly received, happy to send back findings to the list if others are in a similar position (inc after our own testing / pilot as required). I have also asked our MS account manager. Many thanks
in advance.
P.S. I did search the archives and I didn’t find anything inc within the O365 groups.
Kind Regards,
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