deploy Microsoft 365 office via group policy
And for both the deployment, Active Directory is crucial. If no active directory or central server, you are going to have your worst nightmare.
create Share Folder :
Once you make the package ready, you need to copy it on the share location with ‘Everyone’ Read Access.
CMD Script :
After making sure the shared file is accessible, now let’s write a command line script to deploy the office 365. For that here I have prepared one, you can just replace the shared location path.
this script, I have used the flag checker so that every time when computer gets restart, it may not ask to download the content. That means this script will first check whether or not Office 365 updated version is installed in computer, if not installed only at that time it will download the content and install on the machine.
Create a GPO :
create a new policy on the ‘Group Policy Management Editor’ linked with the place where your domain machines are.
Browse on the ‘Startup’ Properties, and add ‘powershell.ps1’ which was created earlier.
Now my policy is ready to go. For instance update, go to the client and ask to perform ‘gpudpate /force’ on command prompt.
When machine got reboot for first time after the policy has been applied, it will automatically install the Office 365 office package.