Office 365 Mac Installer

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If you have an Office 365 (or Microsoft 365) plan, you can provide your users with instructions on how to download and install Office for Mac for themselves. To install Office for Mac, a user has to be administrator on the Mac or know an administrator account name and password. Create your Office 365 online account by logging into the Office 365 with your UCID@njit.edu email. To install desktop versions of Microsoft Office 365 on Windows or Mac computer you need to login to Office 365 and click on the button located on the top of the window to download the Office installer. Office 365 for Mac does not include MS Access. Uninstall Office for Mac 2011 Note: You must be signed in as administrator to do these steps, and you probably already are, if you're using your own Mac. If you're at a Mac that's part of a network at work, you might have to ask someone in your IT organization for help with signing in as administrator. Office for Mac with Microsoft 365, gives you power and flexibility to get things done from virtually anywhere.

As of October 13, 2020, only these versions of Office are supported for connecting to Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) services:

• Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (previously named Office 365 ProPlus)
• Microsoft 365 Apps for business (previously named Office 365 Business)
• Office 2019, such as Office Professional Plus 2019
• Office 2016, such as Office Standard 2016

Examples of Office 365 services include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business.

For Microsoft 365 Apps, you must be using a supported version. For a list of which versions are currently supported, see Update history for Microsoft 365 Apps.

Important

We won’t take any active measures to block other versions of the Office client, such as Office 2013, from connecting to Office 365 services, but these older clients may encounter performance or reliability issues over time.

Impact of using older Office clients to connect to Office 365 services

After October 13, 2020, ongoing investments to our cloud services will not take into account older Office clients. Over time, these Office clients may encounter performance or reliability issues. Organizations that use these older clients will almost certainly face an increased security risk and may find themselves out of compliance depending upon specific regional or industry requirements.

Therefore, administrators should update older Office clients to versions of Office supported for connecting to Office 365 services.

Upgrade resources available to administrators

We recommend that you upgrade older Office clients to a subscription version of the Office client, such as Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. The most up-to-date subscription versions of the Office client are always supported connecting to Office 365 services.

We provide various services to help you upgrade to subscription versions of the Office client. The following list provides some examples of resources that are available:

• Microsoft FastTrack, for migration and deployment assistance from Microsoft experts.
• App Assure, for assistance from Microsoft with application compatibility issues.
• Deployment guide for Microsoft 365 Apps, for technical documentation.
• Product lifecycle dashboard and upgrade readiness dashboard, for users of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (current branch).
• Readiness Toolkit for Office add-ins and VBA, to help identify potential issues with add-ins and VBA macros used in your organization.

Upcoming changes related to connectivity to Office 365 services

Retirement of TLS 1.0 and 1.1

After October 15, 2020, you must be using at least TLS 1.2 to connect to Office 365 services. For more information, see TLS 1.0 and 1.1 deprecation for Office 365 and Preparing for TLS 1.2 in Office 365 and Office 365 GCC.

Basic authentication with Exchange Online

There are some changes planned related to the use of Basic Authentication with Exchange Online. For more information, see Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – February 2021 Update.

Retirement of Skype for Business Online

Skype for Business Online will be retired on July 31, 2021. For more information, see Skype for Business Online retirement.

Minimum version requirements for Outlook for Windows

Note

The information in this section was communicated in the following Message center post in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

• Message ID: MC229143
• Message title: Update to Microsoft 365 and Outlook for Windows connectivity
• Publish date: December 9, 2020.

Starting on November 1, 2021, the following versions are the minimum versions of Outlook for Windows you need to be using to be able to connect to Microsoft 365 services, such as Exchange Online.

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• Version 1706 of Microsoft 365 Apps
• Version 16.0.4600.1000 of Office 2016 (with the November 2017 Update, KB 4051890)
• Version 15.0.4971.1000 of Office 2013 (Service Pack 1 with the October 2017 Update, KB 4043461)

All versions of Outlook 2019 should be able to connect to Microsoft 365 services, but only the most current version is supported.

Even though newer versions of Outlook 2013 might be able to connect to Microsoft 365 services, it's not supported and you may encounter performance or reliability issues.

Versions of Outlook that are newer than those listed, but aren't the most current (supported) versions, may experience connectivity issues. To find what is the most current (supported) version, see the following articles:

Additional information about connectivity to Office 365 services

• Versions of Office 2019 and Office 2016 will be supported for connecting to Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) services until October 2023.
• Connecting to Office 365 services using Office 2016 for Mac isn’t supported. That’s because Office 2016 for Mac reached its end of support on October 13, 2020.
• This information about connecting to Office 365 services also applies to Project and Visio.
• This information about connecting to Office 365 services does not apply to InfoPath 2013 or SharePoint Designer 2013.
• For end of support dates for different versions of Office on various versions of Windows, see the Office configuration support matrix.
• To discuss or learn more about end of support for Office versions, visit Microsoft Office End of Support on the Microsoft Tech Community.

Microsoft has released new deployment tools for Office 2013/2016 and Office 365. With these tools we can create offline installers for a range of Microsoft Office products. This article features step-by-step instructions how to create your customized installer.

Do I need the Deployment Tool?

A lot of Office 2013 and 2016 downloads are availabe as direct downloads, either with or without product key. Please check out or articles on Office 2013 and Office 2016 direct download links. If you don't find your required download there, you can proceed with the steps here in this article.

Step 1: Download and Run the Office Deployment Tool

First of all, you need the Microsoft Office Depolyment Tool. The tool exists in two versions for Office 2013 and Office 2016. Both tools are also suitable to create Office 365 installers, based on Office 2013 and Office 2016 respectively. The installation media that the deployment tool downloads are all based on the click & run technology.

The download is a self-extracting application that contains two files, setup.exe and configuration.xml. Extract those files into a folder of your choice.

Step 2: Configure the Office Deployment Tool

Before you start downloading the installation files, you need to modify the configuration file. Instead of the file that ships with the download, you can use our version of configuration.xml, that is preconfigured for Office Professional Plus 32 bit (suitable for both 2013 and 2016 version). Simply download the configuration file from us, and replace the original one.

If you don't need to modify the configuration file, you can skip straight to step 3. However, you can further modify the configuration to create a tailor made Office installer, either by changing the existing values, or by adding new ones.

Changing the command OfficeClientEdition='32' to 64 creates an installer for the 64 bit edition.

Changing the command Product to something else creates an installer for a different edition. For possible values, please refer to the following table.

Similarly, you can change the language edition by modifying the command Language. If you require multiple language packs for Office, you can add additional lines and provide one requred language ID per line. Please refer to the following table for a list of values.

The command Updates Enabled='TRUE' enables automatic updates for Microsoft Office. If you want to disable updates, you can set the value to FALSE.

The line AcceptEULA='TRUE' suppresses the dialogue that requires the user to accept the Office license agreement. If you want to enable that dialogue, you can set the value to FALSE.

The line Display Level='Full' enables the UI during installation (progress bar etc.) If you want to install Office without user interface, please set the value to None.

You can supply a product key in your configuration file and enable automatic activaltion of the product. They key can be added with the command Product PIDKEY='XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX'. Of course you need to replace the XXX with a real product key.

For automatic product activation, please insert the following line right after the line that contains the Display Level command:

Finally, you can insert commands to exclude Office applications from the installation. Usually, the Click-to-Run installer adds all applications of the Office suite to your computer. Modifying the configuration provides a workaround here and gives you full control over the applications that are installed. Afther the line that contains the Language ID command, you can insert one or more lines of the following type:

For a list of possible values, please refer to the following table.

We've covered only the most useful configuration option here. If you need to go more advanced, have a look at the official documentation.

To double check that the configuration file is valid, you can open it in Internet Explorer and verify that the xml has no errors.

Step 3: Download the Office installation files

To download the installation files, you open a command box and navigate to the download folder that contains the setup.exe and the configuration file. Now execute the following command.

There is no progress indicator. Once all files are downloaded, the process will simply stop. The installation files are all contained in a subfolder called Office. After the download is complete, the folder structure should roughly look as follows.

Step 4: Create a Self-Extracting Installer

We now have all required files, and could go ahead install Microsoft Office with the setup.exe from the deployment tool and the modified configuration file.

However, let's create a self-extracting installer first, which can be used for easy storage and backup, as well as deploying the same software to multiple computers. The following steps are all based on WinRAR, but can be done with any archiving software that support self-extracting archives.

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The archive needs to contain the files setup.exe, configuration.xml, and the Office folder including all subfolders and files. On the WinRAR configuration screen, you need to tick the box Create SFX archive, and provide an archive name for the installer.

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On the Advanced tab, you click the button to go to the SFX options.

On the SFX options dialogue, you go to the Setup tab, and enter the following line into the textbox Run after extraction.

That was already everything. You can WinRAR let do its job, and create an SFX installer of your download. Starting the SFX installer will install your Office product either with or without user interface, according to your configuration.