[ms office - o365] Office 365 Device Based Subscription Activation Problems

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Trying to solve this issue, but to no avail.

 

We have setup device based subscription Office 365 activation, All machines are hybrid joined ( works fine and visable ) .

 

We use Smoothwall as a proxy on port 3128 , and block port 80 and 443 for all users on our hardware firewall.

 

Lets say i unblock port 80 & 443 at the hardware firewall , the machines activate office fine and it lasts 3 months . It them ports are blocked , it does not work/activate.

 

I can see its not using the Internet proxy assigned by GPO/Per User, as it does not list any blocked URLs in the logs.

 

 

 

I have installed Fiddler to catch all the urls going through port 80 , but they all say "200" which is strange .

 

Found a previous article regarding .net framework 4 and editing the config file to include a proxy . ( unsure if this is still relevant ? )

 

 

 

Anyone done this recently with a similar setup that can help ?

 

Thanks

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[2097]

Seem to have found some sort of solution ( well i know what can solve it , but doesnt explain much ).

 

It does seem related to the WINHTTP proxy ( i have this set via registry / GPO )

 

If i manually run the command and set our proxy while the user is logged in with an elevated command prompt , it activates fine.

 

So looks like it is using that ! ....

 

Anyone got any ideas ?

[2097]

So after more testing and a sudden brain wave

 

When you use cmd prompt on a 64bit OS WinHTTP puts the registry items in the WOW64 registry path

 

I was setting the registry path via GPO to the non wow64 Reg path

 

Now in the correct place Device based activation works great !