Office 2016 deployment documentation

Resources for IT professionals and admins on how to deploy and manage Office 2016.

Deployment guide for Office 2016

Get started

• What's new for admins in Office 2016
• Changes in Office 2016
• Office Help & Training

Application compatibility

Get started

• Assess Office compatibility

Overview

• Office Telemetry Dashboard overview

Tutorial

• Plan Office Telemetry Dashboard deployment
• Deploy Office Telemetry Dashboard
• Update Office Telemetry components for Office 2016
• Monitor Office compatibility and deployments
• Manage add-ins using Telemetry Dashboard
• Manage the privacy of data collected
• Custom reporting and database schema reference
• Data collected by the Telemetry Agent
• Document and solution types monitored
• Telemetry Dashboard worksheet reference

Reference

• Manage compatibility mode
• Office file formats reference
• XML file name extensions reference

Volume activation

Overview

• Overview of volume activation for Office

Tutorial

• Configure a KMS host computer
• Configure DNS for KMS

How-To Guide

• Activate Office using KMS
• Activate Office using MAK
• Activate Office using Active Directory
• Rearm Office installation in an image
• Tools to manage volume activation
• Troubleshoot volume activation

Language deployment

Overview

• Plan for multilanguage deployment

How-To Guide

• Customize language setup and settings
• Add or remove language packs after deployment
• Language versions and language interface packs
• Companion proofing languages
• Language identifiers and OptionState Id values