Office 2013 Deployment (Office 365)
We need to deploy Office 2013 (available as part of our Office 365 E3 subscription) to existing users who are using Office 2010.
What is the best way to deploy it? I know they can log on to the portal themselves and download the software, but we would prefer to do it all for them.
I understand that the Office 365 version of Office 2013 can sit side-by-side with Office 2010. We will remove Office 2010 as part of the deployment, but is there a preferred way to do this as well and can it be incorporated into the Office 2013 deployment technique used?
What is the best way to deploy it? I know they can log on to the portal themselves and download the software, but we would prefer to do it all for them.
I understand that the Office 365 version of Office 2013 can sit side-by-side with Office 2010. We will remove Office 2010 as part of the deployment, but is there a preferred way to do this as well and can it be incorporated into the Office 2013 deployment technique used?
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Short answer is no!
This isn't an upgrade it is effectively a new install.
Outlook profile should sort itself out as long as your autodiscover is good.
I think Word template locations will be fine. You can always set these via a GP to make sure they are applied.
This isn't an upgrade it is effectively a new install.
Outlook profile should sort itself out as long as your autodiscover is good.
I think Word template locations will be fine. You can always set these via a GP to make sure they are applied.
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Do you know what other things may be affected? I'm also thinking of things like custom dictionaries - would they be in a location where they would be picked up by the Office 2013 programs (even when 2010 is uninstalled)?
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Office 2010 was deployed either as part of an image when first building the PC or installed manually ad-hoc.
If we were installing Office 2013 as part of the click-to-run feature, will it maintain all the current user application settings in Outlook (profiles, views etc), Word (template locations etc) and the other core applications?