Monthly Archives: September 2015

Sep 23 2015
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installers, office2016, Profiles

Office 2016 Mac admin resource links

Below is a gathering of all the discoveries fellow Mac admins have documented regarding Office 2016 for Mac; both Office 365 and Volume License varieties.  This post will be updated as new issues are made known.

Discussion and discovery on these topics and all things Microsoft Office are on-going on the Macadmins Slack team in channel #microsoft-office.  You can get an invite to join us on Slack by going to http://macadmins.org

Office 2016 Direct Download links

http://macadmins.software – Straight from the source and curated by Paul Bowden at Microsoft, this lists all downloads and updates since the first non-preview release on 7/9. The red table lists latest versions available, the green table lists all the permalinks, and the black table has links to all releases and KB articles, plus extra information like build date.

https://osxbytes.wordpress.com/2015/11/12/office-2016-direct-download-links/

Demystify Office 2016 for Mac 

https://clburlison.com/demystify-office2016/ – in Slack/Twitter @clburlison – use this excellent guide to distinguish the different installation/license/upgrade options for Office 2016.

Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac serialization changes  https://macmule.com/2015/12/11/microsoft-office-2016-for-mac-serialisation-changes – in Slack @macmule

Suppressing first launch “What’s New” for Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Word & OneNote, and Outlook’s account setup:

http://macops.ca/disabling-first-run-dialogs-in-office-2016-for-mac/ – in Slack @tvsutton
https://osxbytes.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/not-much-whats-new-with-you/ – in Slack @eholtam

Volume License installer issues: – being addressed in the December release

http://macops.ca/whats-wrong-with-the-office-2016-volume-license-installer/ – in Slack @tvsutton
http://macops.ca/the-office-for-mac-2016-volume-license-installer-two-months-later/ – @tvsutton

Outlook 2016 setup script:

https://github.com/talkingmoose/Oulook-Exchange-Setup-5.0 – in Slack @talkingmoose
https://github.com/poundbangbash/Outlook-Exchange-Setup-5.0-Meredith – @eholtam – My fork addressing running the setup script on first launch of Outlook.

Office 2016 Packaging:

http://www.richard-purves.com/?p=79 – in Slack @franton

Suppress Microsoft AutoUpdate launch warning – needs to be run per-user

https://gist.github.com/erikng/7cede5be1c0ae2f85435 – in Slack @erik

Remove Office 2011 script (and some shared 2016 bits like license, MAU, etc.)

http://www.officeformachelp.com/office/install/remove-office/ – in Slack @talkingmoose

Administering Office 2016 for Mac presentations by @talkingmoose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-EtZizWJdQ – PSU 2015

http://bit.ly/1HgsqJE – University of Utah 2015 (QT)
https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=details&id=11446 – University of Utah 2015 (Streaming)

Fun with Microsoft Office 2016

https://themacwrangler.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/fun-with-microsoft-office-2016/ – in Slack @hunty

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Sep 17 2015
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office2016, Profiles

Not much, what’s new with you?

Update: See this post for new information on changes to suppressing What’s New dialogs starting with 15.34.

Update: As expected the `OUIWhatsNewLastShowLink` key is being incremented to display new features on subsequent releases. The profiles below will contain the latest values for the currently released versions.

Profiles for Office 2016 version 15.31

Office 2016 offers to show users “What’s New” on first launch.  Tim Sutton has a writeup on how to suppress the initial dialogs on his blog.  However, with version 15.14 of the Office apps there’s new “What’s New”s for Outlook and Powerpoint that sets a key not mentioned in the aforementioned post to suppress the new dialog.  This only affects Powerpoint and Outlook for this version.  Word and Excel didn’t present new prompts on launch this time around.

Along with the “What’s New” keys there are some others of interest:

kSubUIAppCompletedFirstRunSetup1507 – boolean – Controls the original “What’s New” dialog and Office 365 activation prompt on first launch

OUIWhatsNewLastShownLink – string – Controls the “What’s New” dialog on first launch for new prompts offered in subsequent version.

FirstRunExperienceCompletedO15 – boolean – Controls offer to import mailbox or setup an email account. (That’s a cap o15, not zero15)

SendAllTelemetryEnabled – boolean – Control the offer to send crash reports to Microsoft

ONWhatsNewShownItemIds – array – Specific to OneNote this value is an array of integers that appears to increment haphazardly.  For just OneNote, this replaces the OUIWhatsNewLastShownLink value.

OUIWhatsNewLastShownLink values

Profiles
Below are profiles that will suppress the “What’s New” and disable crash reports prompts. These examples are set to “Force” the setting as attempts using Set-Once with a timestamp didn’t seem to be effective.

Outlook – suppress “What’s New” only (see below for suppressing Inbox migration)
Outlook – suppress “What’s New” and mailbox setup*

Powerpoint

OneNote

Word

Excel

*There is also a key for Outlook that will suppress the dialog to offer to migrate or setup an email account.  That key is a boolean FirstRunExperienceCompletedO15.  That’s a captial o, not a zero at the end of the key.

 FirstRunExperienceCompletedO15 suppresses this

To extract the values of the OUIWhatsNewLastShownLink I have a script that I run after installing and running each new application.  That script is at OUIWhatsNewLastShownLink Script

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Sep 15 2015
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Mac Admin QuickLook Tools

Quicklook has been around for a while and I harness its abilities to help me with my Mac admin life.  Apple advertised it for PDFs, images, and text files, however we admins can partake in the marketing highlight as well.

Below are a few of my favorite QuickLook plugins that I’ve been using for years.  Thankfully they still function.  Some have stopped development but are still available and going strong 7 OS revisions later.

QLStephen – Nothing fancy.  But it does let you view plain text files that don’t have a file extension. It is useful for reading files like README, INSTALL, CHANGELOG, Makefile, etc.

Scriptql – shows AppleScript .script files.  Getting rarer but good to have in a pinch.

QLColorCode – syntax highlighting of code and plist files.  Very handy for peeking in on .plists as the syntax is color coded.

syntax highlight

Much better

Screen Shot 2015-09-14 at 10.47.28 PM

 

Suspicious Package – My favorite.  It opens up .pkg and .mpkg installers to show the payload, scripts and other meta data about the installer.  It’s saved me so much time being able to peek in on an installer without having to deep dive into it.  I highly recommend it for anyone messing with .pkgs.

Suspicious Package quicklook Screen Shot 2015-09-14 at 10.53.21 PM

Please share your favorites in the comments.

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