Please see this thread: https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3d3d8fe6-cffd-424a-9e5b-2b5ab2f0436e/office-software-protection-platform-for-excel-in-hpc?forum=windowshpcdevs
With Excel 2013 installed on servers, is there any way to disable the Office Software Protection Platform from running each time Excel is invoked?
We start and stop Excel hundreds of times, often with multiple copies running, and having the licensing checks run each time is a problem.
We also are finding that Excel sometimes calls the "Microsoft Setup Bootstrapper" which blocks the process.
How can these two extra processes be turned off?