Hello,

I'm making the configuration.xml file for an unattended office 365 deployment. After installation, when I run one of the product, for example WORD, I still have 2 screens :

- A choice with : use recommended settings or not

- A presentation of office 2013

Do you know if I can silent/avoid these 2 screens and preset to use the recommended settings in my configuration.xml file?

Thank you for your help.

Hi,

According to your description, my understanding is that you want to manage the Opt-in or First things first prompt when Microsoft Office 365 applications are first launched. Am I right? If yes, please try the following steps:

First, you should be aware the text inside the First things first dialog box varies depending on what information Office 365 needs when opened for the first time. If you are having problems making this dialog box disappear, be sure to pay attention to the text inside the dialog box. It may provide a clue as to what is missing.

Second, you need to configure the GPO settings found at the Office Deployment Support Team Blog. At the bottom of this support blog, there is a link to another Support Team Blog that lists the GPO settings to disable the First Run screens.

Third, you will want to use the following lines in the configuration xml you use to deploy Office 365.

               <Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE"/>

               <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1/>

After following the steps above, we were down to one First things first message prompting us to accept the Office License Agreement. At this point, we discovered that under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, there is a registration key that stores the computer name and the EULA text. Because SCCM uses the system account to install software, the registration keys were not being created.

We chose to use a GPO that creates the HKCU registry keys before Office 365 is applied. Once the GPO was applied, the last final, stubborn dialog box disappeared. We are listing the registry keys below. Please note that we used the variable %COMPUTERNAME% to create the keys.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Registration]

"AcceptEulas"=dword:00000001 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Registration\%COMPUTERNAME%]

"none.AttemptGetKey"=dword:00000001 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Registration\%COMPUTERNAME%\{149DBCE7-A48E-44DB-8364-A53386CD4580}] 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Registration\%COMPUTERNAME%\{90150000-000F-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}] 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Registration\%COMPUTERNAME%\{90150000-000F-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}\O365ProPlusRetail] 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Registration\%COMPUTERNAME%\{90150000-000F-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}\O365ProPlusRetail\EULA]

"16"="PLEASE NOTE: Your use of the subscription service and software is subject to the terms and conditions of the agreement you agreed to when you signed up for the subscription and by which you acquired a license for the software.For instance, if you are: a volume license customer, use of this software is subject to your volume license agreement a Microsoft Online Subscription customer, use of this software is subject to the Microsoft Online Subscription agreement.You may not use the service or software if you have not validly acquired a license from Microsoft or its licensed distributors.EULAID:O15_RTM_OSUB.1_RTM_EN"

Hope it's helpful.

Regards,

George Zhao
TechNet Community Support