[windows software] Office 2019 KMS Activation on RDS/RAS and Updates

[_techie_]

Hi.

 

I'm currently doing our Office 2019 Update for this summer from Office 2016.

We are mainly Windows 10 LTSC 2019, and Server 2019 for RDS/RAS

I am trying to understand the activation (we have a KMS host setup for Office 2019) process around RDS, and whether I need to use User based activation, Device or Shared, as this seems unclear.

Also how do you deal with updates? I have currently set my install config.xml file to get the updates from a network share. How do you populate this area with updates? On this page, it seems you still need a computer able to access the CDN to obtain the updates, which is fine. However where are the updates stored?

 

On this page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/office2019/update

It seems you still need a device which has access to the CDN, which is fine, but where are the updates located? How do I populate the updates UNC path. All very unclear!

I would ideally like to just use the CDN, but this seems unlikely at present, as we are using Smoothwall with proxy for users, on Windows 10.

 

Some pointers would be appreciated!

Regards

Mark