ok originally I had been logging into machines as the end user and installing O365 from the online portal.

This was all fine until we started to turn over staff.

A laptop was moved to an intern, the intern has an O365 E3 license, using office without issue.

As soon as I pulled the license from the ex employee who orignally installed office on that laptop, it suddenly no longer works for the intern.  telling them they do not have a valid license, have remove and re-install to correct issue.

So with that said, I am looking for the use the deployment tool and create a local install package, hoping that if I install this way, it will not require a uninstall / reinstall every time a user changes or employee leaves.

Anyone run into this?  Will the local deployment package solve the reinstall issue?

Thank you for the feedback.

So I downloaded the deployment tool, created a share on the server, saved the files into the share, updated the XML file.

When I try and run a local install I get the following:



I ran the MS fixit, but it said there is nothing installed, I checked to see if there was any residue from an install, nothing.  Is there a trick to getting this install to work?

Ok this is the error from the log file:

Download Failed for \\server\o365\office\Data\V32.cab

Where does this file come from?  How do I get this file?  the only files created by the deployment tool where setup.exe and xml sample, DO I need to manualy fetch these files?  There is no Office folder in this folder, is it suppose to be created by setup.exe?

people keep talking about having your files in the \office folder, where do you get these files?

any help would be appreciated.

Ok figured out the key step I missed, that was not noted very well in the documents.

You must first run the tool in /download to get the install files before you can run with /configure.

A laptop was moved to an intern, the intern has an O365 E3 license, using office without issue.

As soon as I pulled the license from the ex employee who orignally installed office on that laptop, it suddenly no longer works for the intern.  telling them they do not have a valid license, have remove and re-install to correct issue.

So with that said, I am looking for the use the deployment tool and create a local install package, hoping that if I install this way, it will not require a uninstall / reinstall every time a user changes or employee leaves.

When you revoked the O365ProPlus license from the departed employee, this would have revoked the license on that laptop. This is exactly how it it supposed to work for subscriptions.

You would re-assign the license to the new employee, and then the new employee signs-in and assigns one of his 5 licenses to the laptop.

There should be no need to uninstall/reinstall the product on the laptop.

Alternatively, if you implement ADFS or DirSync to your O365 tenant from your on-premises AD, things become a lot simp