OneDrive for Business - Licensing / Software Queries

[KyleWhite]

Hi All,

 

I thought I'd see if anyone here has had a similar experience/scenario and may be able to help me! We're running Office 365 which is synced with our AD via the Windows Azure tool.

 

First of all, OneDrive for Business - Sync client. Am I right in thinking there is no MSI available for this any more than we can silently deploy to all of our Staff Laptops (and possibly student?). We've managed to get a handful of staff installed with the 'web installer' (which doesn't play nicely with our proxy, so had to use my phone to tether and workaround!) which after it's installed, works great (even via the proxy!). Does anyone know what we'd need to specifically allow in order for the web installer to work with a Sophos Web Appliance? Alternatively, does anyone have an MSI (or guide to pull one out of it?)

 

Second, licensing for OneDrive for Business accounts. Our students have access to the Office 365 ProPlus for Students license, and this has been applied to a security group titled 'O365Students' (which yes, you guessed it contains all students!). We've rolled out this license across all of the users in this group, no problems at all. However, this license doesn't give them access to their OneDrives, this comes in via 'Office 365 Education E1 for Students' sub licenses. As such, we want to roll out ONLY the following as part of Office 365 Education E1 for Students:

 

1) Office Online for Education

2) Lync Online

3) SharePoint Plan 1 for EDU (As I'm guessing this is needed for the actual OneDrive account? It's basically a hacked together SharePoint was what we were told at a MS conference a while back!)

 

But NOT Exchange Online (as we have an On-Premises Exchange server).

 

Does anyone know how we'd go about applying those licenses to a particular security group?

 

Thanking you all in advance!

 

Kyle

[Norphy]

First of all, OneDrive for Business - Sync client. Am I right in thinking there is no MSI available for this any more than we can silently deploy to all of our Staff Laptops (and possibly student?). We've managed to get a handful of staff installed with the 'web installer' (which doesn't play nicely with our proxy, so had to use my phone to tether and workaround!) which after it's installed, works great (even via the proxy!). Does anyone know what we'd need to specifically allow in order for the web installer to work with a Sophos Web Appliance? Alternatively, does anyone have an MSI (or guide to pull one out of it?)

 

The OneDrive for Business sync client is part of Office 2013. You can't install Office 2013 components directly from MSIs but it's easy enough to create a silent installer. To do so, download the latest O2013 ISO from Microsoft and extract its contents somewhere. Open a command prompt, change to the directory where you extracted the ISO to and type "setup /admin". That will open the Office Customisation Tool.

 

Click on "Create a new setup..." and press OK. It'll ask you about default file types, choose your preference and press OK. Go to the "Licensing and user interface" section, agree to the license agreement and change the display level to None. Also uncheck Completion Notice.

 

Then you can go to the "Set Feature Installation States" section and uncheck everything but OneDrive. Once you've done that, look through the other sections and see if there's anything you want to set. Go to File\Save As and save the resulting file in the Updates folder that's in the folder where you extracted the office disk to.

 

Now when you run Setup, it'll install the OneDrive sync client without any prompts. You can put the setup.exe into a startup script.

[KyleWhite]

The OneDrive for Business sync client is part of Office 2013. You can't install Office 2013 components directly from MSIs but it's easy enough to create a silent installer. To do so, download the latest O2013 ISO from Microsoft and extract its contents somewhere. Open a command prompt, change to the directory where you extracted the ISO to and type "setup /admin". That will open the Office Customisation Tool.

 

Click on "Create a new setup..." and press OK. It'll ask you about default file types, choose your preference and press OK. Go to the "Licensing and user interface" section, agree to the license agreement and change the display level to None. Also uncheck Completion Notice.

 

Then you can go to the "Set Feature Installation States" section and uncheck everything but OneDrive. Once you've done that, look through the other sections and see if there's anything you want to set. Go to File\Save As and save the resulting file in the Updates folder that's in the folder where you extracted the office disk to.

 

Now when you run Setup, it'll install the OneDrive sync client without any prompts. You can put the setup.exe into a startup script.

 

You sir, are a life saver. I've even used the customisation tool previously and didn't even think to check if I could do it that way. Thank you very much!

 

Don't happen to have any ideas with my 2nd issue do you? I'll owe you a pint!

 

Kyle

[Norphy]

There will be a PowerShell command to do it. However, I'm not that up on Office 365 administration so I can't be anything but infuriatingly vague here I'm afraid.

[KyleWhite]

Ah, no problem - I owe you enough already

 

Thank you again!

[Norphy]

This is a pretty comprehensive article, you should be able to build something up from this:

 

Office 365 Licensing with PowerShell | Office 365 content from Windows IT Pro

[Boredguy]

Basically you need to assign the license, but disable exchange and lync as part of the options.

 

You can either do it via Powershell, or via the GUI depending on how many users you have.