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Today, Office 365 is available for the first time on the Mac App Store, making it easier than ever for Mac users to download Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and the whole suite of Microsoft’s popular apps. Users can also purchase a subscription for Office 365 from within the apps, so they can get up and running instantly.

Choose the right Microsoft 365 subscription for your Mac. Includes the latest AI-powered Office apps, 1 TB of cloud storage, and premium mobile features. Microsoft has just launched its subscription-based office service, Microsoft Office 365 on the Mac App Store. As part of the announcement, Apple claimed that it is easier than ever for Mac users.

Office 365 for Mac has been designed specifically to support features that are unique to the Mac experience — features like Dark Mode and Continuity Camera in macOS, as well as the MacBook Pro Touch Bar and the Mac’s industry-leading Trackpad.
“We are excited to welcome Microsoft Office 365 to the all new Mac App Store in macOS Mojave,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Apple and Microsoft have worked together to bring great Office productivity to Mac users from the very beginning. Now, with Office 365 on the Mac App Store, it's easier than ever to get the latest and best version of Office 365 for Mac, iPad and iPhone.”
“We are excited to announce that today Office 365 is arriving in the Mac App Store,” said Jared Spataro, corporate vice president at Microsoft. “We have worked closely with Apple to provide Mac users with the very best productivity experience — one that offers everything they know and love about Office through an experience uniquely designed for the Mac.”
In business, as at home, employees want access to the best devices and apps to do their work. With Office 365 on the Mac App Store, these apps can now be easily distributed to employees using Apple Business Manager, a central dashboard where IT can deploy devices, apps and licenses. Now IT can quickly enable employees to get to work with their favourite Office tools across Mac, iPad and iPhone, with great new features designed specifically for Apple devices.

About the Mac App Store

The Mac App Store is the single largest catalog of Mac apps in the world. Newly redesigned this past year, the Mac App Store features a new look and rich editorial content for a more enjoyable experience when finding great, new apps for the Mac. Like the iOS App Store, the new Mac App Store celebrates apps, games, businesses and developers with an all-new Discover tab featuring compelling stories, in-depth interviews, helpful tips, collections of must-have apps and more. Users can also explore new Create, Work, Play and Develop tabs to find the perfect app for a specific project or purpose — from music, video and photography apps to business utilities and games.

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When macOS Mojave’s Mac App Stores new look was unveiled during WWDC 2018 it was also announced that Microsoft would be bringing the Office suite to the Mac App Store.

Well, earlier this week the announcement was fulfilled.

See below for some information on how this might affect us admins as well as some things to consider.

Contents

  • 2 So, I can now just deploy Microsoft Office from the Mac App Store?
  • 3 Deployment

Microsoft have supplied a KB for use admins centred around deployment, which is available here.

The following has mostly come from the above, just expanded upon a little further.

Well, no.. or maybe.. erm, it’s not quite that simple.

There are a few things to be mindful of beforehand.

Version

Office 365 is the version of the Office suite which is available via the Mac App Store.

If you see the versioning section in my previous post on Microsoft Office, I mention the version 16.17+ being for both 2019 & O365. This is still correct but see below for a difference.

Licensing

Whilst these Mac App Store apps are the same version as the “2019” suite, the Mac App Store Office Apps cannot be volume license as per:

No. Perpetual licenses, including Office 2019 and Office 2016, are not supported with Office apps available from the Mac App Store. The Volume License (VL) Serializer is not compatible with these apps. Attempts to use a perpetual license with Mac App Store apps will cause the apps to enter reduced functionality mode.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/mac/deploy-mac-app-store
Is Microsoft Office For Mac In The App Store

Operating System Support

Again, in my previous post I mention which versions of the Office Suite support which versions of macOS.

And above I mentioned that, we’re looking at the current O365 version of the Office Suite.

So, it should make sense that the O365 apps available on the App Store support 10.12+ & up.

If you support older OS’s, (why?), then these are not for you.

Ok, so you’ve reviewed the above & still wish to go through with your deployment. Below are some more things to bear in mind.

VPP

As we’re talking about apps available on the Mac App Store, you’ll need an MDM/EMM to deploy these apps via VPP.

Another item to mention here is that VPP cannot do “Suites”, so instead of deploying the Office 365 Suite you’ll need to deployment the component apps one-by-one.

Migrating to the Mac App Store Office Apps

If you are already deploying O365 & wish to move to deploying the Apps via VPP, I’m afraid it’s not as simple as deploying the VPP apps on top.

Microsoft do mention this in a section of their KB, which I’ve quoted below:

There is no automated process for performing a CDN to Mac App Store conversion. Depending on your EMM’s capabilities, you may be able to orchestrate the process through a script. The high-level steps for each Mac are as follows:
1. Close all Office apps
2. Remove the Office apps from the /Applications folder
3. Remove the Office entries from the keychain
4. Remove the Office package registrations (pkgutil --forget)
5. Trigger the MDM server to install the Office apps (such as jamf recon)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/mac/deploy-mac-app-store#can-i-convert-an-existing-cdn-based-office-installation-to-mac-app-store

The majority of the above is simple enough, but step 3 refers to items on the User Keychain.

Apple Store Microsoft Office App

Paul Bowden has a script which can be used for this, but depending on if a deployment is multi-user etc this might become a little complex. Especially if you’re looking to logout then perform the steps 2-5 above.

At dataJAR, I’ve tasked Darren with looking into this & if an elegant workflow is found he’ll post it on his blog.

Detection

If you’re not sure how the Office Apps installed on your devices were installed, Microsoft do note the following:

• Open Finder, and navigate to the Applications folder
• Locate the Office app (such as Microsoft Outlook.app), control-click, and choose Show Package Contents
• Navigate into the Contents folder
• If a folder named _MASReceipt is present, the app was downloaded from the Mac App Store

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/mac/deploy-mac-app-store#how-can-i-tell-if-an-office-app-was-downloaded-from-the-mac-app-store

Reduced Functionality Mode

Store

A valid O365 subscription is needed to be able to edit documents in Word, Excel & PowerPoint, or to send emails within Outlook.

This is important as you might deploy the O365 apps to a Mac, but those apps might not be activated via a valid subscription.

How Much Is Microsoft Office 365 For Mac In App Store

This might be due to the O365 apps not being activated by that user.

Or the VPP apps have been deployed to a Mac with a Volume License or a Volume License has been deployed post VPP app install.

Microsoft has another article on this, & you have two options if the above is the issue. Which depends on the end goal license:

  1. O365: Completely remove the Office Apps & keychain etc, as per these steps, then reinstall from the Mac App Store & activate via a valid O365 license.
  2. 2019: Completely remove the Office Apps installed from the Mac App Store, & re-install the “CDN” versions, as per these steps.
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Well, at dataJAR, we are going to leverage VPP for all new O365 deployments.

For those we’ve historically deployed O365 apps from the “CDN” media, as the migration steps seem a bit of a faff & the end-user is getting the same versions, we’ll leave them as they are.

We’ll then review this if the migration steps become simpler.