O365 ProPlus GPO when Office 2016 is deployed?

Hello!

We successfully run Office 2013 streamed from Office 365 today. Great.

Now, when Office 2016 starts to automatically deploy and replaces our current Office 2013, what will happen to the current Office settings that we configure with GPO? Will 2016 continue to use the 2013 settings or do we need to insert admx for 2016 immediately, mirroring the settings we had in 2013 GPO?

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June 11th, 2015 4:35am

Now, when Office 2016 starts to automatically deploy and replaces our current Office 2013, what will happen to the current Office settings that we configure with GPO? Will 2016 continue to use the 2013 settings or do we need to insert admx for 2016 immediately, mirroring the settings we had in 2013 GPO?

Probably we will need to add the ADMX for 2016 and mirror the settings which are relevant.

That's what we've done for every other Office release..

Unless Office2016 introduces some new approach for settings management?

Probably a good question for the Office2016 feedback

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June 11th, 2015 5:03am

Hi,

In addition to Don's reply, you can also refer to this link below:

https://connect.microsoft.com/office/program8819

As mentioned in this link, Office 2016 Preview is a self-supportedprogram;we are not offering technical support for Office 2016 Preview.  Below are two avenues that you can try for help: 

Review the articlesthat highlight What's New and Known Issuesfor Office 2016 Preview. 

Visit the Community where you can ask questions and get answers from other preview users.

Regards,

Melon Chen

Forum Support

June 11th, 2015 9:41pm
Yes, but this is not a question about current beta. Office 2016 will soon start to replace 2013 via streaming and we dont want to all of a sudden be sitting without GPO settings in Office. This needs to be known Before the upgrade is streamed out I hope?
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June 12th, 2015 3:33am

H,

I understand your concern, actually I agree with Don that we probably will need the Administrative Template files for Office 2016 for management, but I haven't found it either, so for now a good choice is to ask in the feedback forum suggested above, there are many users discussing this question too.

Regards,

Melon Chen

Forum Support

June 17th, 2015 11:00pm

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