Deploying Microsoft 365 apps
Office Click-to-Run is the new way of deploying Microsoft 365 apps – Office to your endpoints. The installation takes place in the following five different stages, as the following example describes, and involves active downloading from the internet. Therefore, the installation elements are very small.
Microsoft 365 apps are not like other apps in Microsoft Intune, as there is a policy that is deployed to the managed devices. The policy is similar to other CSPs deployed through the MDM channel to the device:
Figure 8.39: Office CSP
As it is a CSP policy and not a Win32 app, that is also the reason why you cannot use it as a dependency in a Win32 app. The CSP writes to the registry key Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeCSP
, where it creates a default key with the value http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=829801, at which point the setup.exe
file downloads the file to the local device together with the XML file...