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Scenario: I wanted to package the Office 365 Activation Troubleshooter ( Officeact.diagcab ) for Office 365 users with activation issues. I needed to find out the commands to use as well as the appropriate Detection Method. 1. Download: Officeact.diagcab https://aka.ms/diag_officeact 2. Create a PowerShell (Diagnostics.Office365.ps1) script to call the officeact.diagcab file. See example below 3. Create an SCCM Script application calling the Diagnostics.Office365.ps1 script powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass .\Diagnostics.Office365.ps1 Select the Detection Method tab and select radial next to "Use a custom script to detect the presence of the this deployment type". Select the Edit option on the right and set the script type to PowerShell and the script content as appropriate to the application. The script below will look at all running processes and filter out all processes that equal msdt; if a process matching this string is found the client will return an exit code of 0 ...

Office 365 Update Restarts my Apps in SCCM Pushing Office 365 C2R updates through SCCM 1610 causes Office applications to close unexpectedly on client PCs This is a known bug since the release of ConfigMgr CB 1610. and was resolved with Hotfix KB4010155 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4010155/update-rollup-for-system-center-configuration-manager-current-branch-v  After you start installation of Office updates from Software Center, users do not receive a notification message to exit all open Office 365 applications. This behavior occurs even with the  forceappshutdown=False  switch in the Configuration.xml file for Office 365. Conclusion Install all hotfixes https://support.microsoft.com/help/4010155 https://support.microsoft.com/help/4016483

1            Office 365 Configuration This section describes the Office 365 application implemented. 1.1         Observations The current estate contains a range of Office suite and standalone products (Standard, ProPlus, Outlook, Lync, Visio, and Project) as well as a range/mix of versions on each system; from 2007- 2016. 1.2         Application Deployment An Office 365 application has been created in English.  Each application source directory is about 1.2GB in size and has been distributed to all corresponding DP’s.  Note: it is possible to install multiple languages of Office 365 on a single system however, the first installation will take ownership of the UI Shell i.e. Menus, drop –downs etc. 1.3         Office 2016 Deployment Tool for Click-to-Run The source files for Office 365 can be downloaded via the Clic...