How to manage MS Office 2019 running Mojave 10.14.5

[rgauthier]

Hello, I'm having a bit of an issue launching MS2019 on 77 MacBook Airs after imaging the laptops. I watched a webinar on how to manage the office suite on the JAMF site. However, following the instructions doesn't work for me. I supposed to either edit or create a new file or plist containing the Domain/key/type/value. The problem is, this webinar doesn't tell me where and how to edit this file. I searched my whole directory for com.microsoft.office, OfficeAutoSignIn, boo1, TRUE. I came up with nothing. I'm assuming these values need to be somewhere on my directory, I just don't know where to go from here. Please help!

[jleomcdo]

You will use the defaults command to create new plist files. Then those plist files can be put into Configuration Profile in JSS. (Using the Custom Settings payload) I created two Config Profiles for Office. One is used to "Auto Activate" Office and the other to configure the "First run experience" (for example Send Diagnostic data to MS and Enable the Intelligence Services) You need to create a separate plist for the "First run experience" for each app. (Word, Excel, Power Point, etc)

Config Profile #1 "Auto Activate" Office
Looks like this...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict> <key>DefaultEmailAddressOrDomain</key> <string>$EMAIL</string> <key>OfficeActivationEmailAddress</key> string>$USERNAME@company.com</string <key>OfficeAutoSignIn</key> <true/> <key>TermsAccepted1809</key> <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

The 2nd Config. Profile in JSS is "Microsoft Office Presets"
Example plist for this is...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict> <key>DiagnosticDataPreference</key> <string>BasicDiagnosticData</string> <key>PII_And_Intelligent_Services_Preference</key> <true/> <key>kFREIntelligenceServicesConsentV2Key</key> <true/> <key>kFRETelemetryConsentKey</key> <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Here is a good site that list all of the keys you can use in the Office "First Run Experience" plist

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ESX5td0y0OP3jdzZ-C2SItm-TUi-iA_bcHCBvaoCumw/edit#gid=0

I hope this helps!

[rgauthier]

Thank you very much, I will try it.

[tlarkin]

I use a config profile and I just set O365 to auto update all the time. Every Patch Tuesday you will get a giant cycle of your fleet patching.

[rgauthier]

Where can I find that config profile?

[tlarkin]

@rgauthier

here you go

link to MSFT employee github