Office 365 Beta Webinar:Office Professional PlusBrian ShiersJanuary 6th, 2011

What is Office 365?All the cloud-based productivity tool you need in one place

Office Professional Plus is …• The full Office rich client

suite available as a monthly subscription

• The same great rich client applications found in Office Professional Plus 2010

• Per user license, up to 5 simultaneous installations

• Available in 32 and 64 bit

• Managed and downloaded from Office 365 portal

PublisherWord

Excel

PowerPoint

OneNote

Outlook

Access

InfoPath

SharePoint

Workspace

• Excel• OneNote

• PowerPoint• Word

Office Professional Plus is not …• Called Office Subscription - it’s Office

Professional Plus• Online Office or the Office Web apps

− Web apps are included in the Pro Plus license• Click-to-Run

− No streaming− No updates automatically pushed

• Volume license software• A way to remove traditional deployment

challenges• Required to access other Office 365

services• Available for Mac

Office Comparison:Office Pro Plus vs. Volume License

Office Professional Plus Office Volume License

Download location • Office 365 Portal • VL Software Center

Software • Office Professional Plus • Office Standard 2010• Office Professional Plus 2010

Product Key / Activation

• Subscription based activation• Term – 30 days (monthly)• No keys to manage – only users

• Volume License technologies• MAK perpetual activation,

KMS 180 days• Manage KMS and /or MAK keys

When Reduced Functionality Mode (RFM) starts

• In 60 days since last activation• “hard” RFM

• MAK: N/A• KMS: within 180 days• “Notification mode”

Deployment options • Office 365 Portal• Unmanaged & Managed options

• Unmanaged & Managed Options• App-V• Terminal Services

# of copies allowed • 5 active installs on different devices per user

• No downgrade rights

• Single device per license/activation• Downgrade rights

Office Pro Plus:Managing users not keys• Manage individual users • No keys to manage• Proactive user assignments• Admin does required to mange

installations

Office Pro Plus Activation Process

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Office prompts the user for credentials, “phones home” to obtain a 30-day product key from Microsoft, and activates Office with the key. During each 30 day period, OPP checks to make sure the user is still subscribed.

Office Subscription Service & Office Activation Service

 

NOTE:

No KMS or MAK key activation!

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Office deployment methods

OPP deployment methods

DemoManaging Office Pro Plus

Small Business OPP GuidanceOffice 365 Portal Network Share

Pros

• Easiest for companies with little or no IT help• No internal organization resources

are required• Full user self-service approach• Office 365 provided functionality

and administration

• Limited IT skill required• Limited infrastructure required• Network share and network access are

the only infrastructure requirements.• Single download - more efficient for

slow connections• Supports customized installs• Some deployment controls• Allows 32/64 bit control

Cons

• Each download is 650MB• No customization• Users make select of 32/64 bit

options• No IT Administrator control• Difficult to track deployment

• Requires IT Admin activity• Requires some internal infrastructure• Difficult to control and manage• May impact local network performance

Suggested

Scenario

Isolated and mobile users who don’t have ready access to an internal share location or organizations that do not have share location or technical resources to support a centralized distribution

Customers who have limited bandwidth connectivity to internet resources or want to have added controls of the deployment and have an IT Administrator to manage the setup process

Enterprise & CA OPP Guidance Managed Install

Pros

• Leverages Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Group Policy infrastructure.

• Administrators can use a similar scripting process to apply security updates and service packs.

• Applications are deployed to thousands of workstations in a short period of time.

• Centralizes control, monitoring, reporting, and issue resolution of deployment.

• Reduces the need of sending helpdesk personnel to workstations for troubleshooting.

Cons

• Per-user licensing has administrative overhead• Cannot achieve silent install• Requires supporting infrastructure• Expertise is required to manage the change and configuration

management software

Suggested

Scenario

Customers who have a large installed base and Federated ID. Existing VL customers, customers with IT staff, and those seeking to leverage existing deployment infrastructure should deploy VL rather than OPP. Customers seeking Virtualization should deploy VL.

ConnectorOffice 365 – Beta• MSI• Updates desktop and Office• No app configuration

Office 365 – GA• Step in setup• Run from portal• Updates desktop and Office• Configures Outlook, Lync, IE

Office Pro Plus Beta Feedback• Do you like the concept of managing

users not keys?• Do you value the user management

aspects of Office Pro Plus?• Have you deployed Office Pro Plus in

the Office 365?− Have you hit challenges in deployment or

activation of OPP?

Additional Resources

• Office 365 Community− Blogs | Forums | Wikis

• OfficeITPro.com (Office on TechNet)− Discover & Explore Office features− Pilot & Deploy Office

• Prepare your desktop for Office 365− Desktop refresh Proof of Concept

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