Setting up business PC’s with office 355?

Mark M · 24 Jan 2022 at 20:04

Not sure if this is better here or in the windows sub forum? But I was wondering how I should go about setting up PC’s in an office environment? We subscribe to O365 Business Standard and use Exchange via Outlook desktop and Word and Excel. We have a couple of other desktop programs that are specific to our industry that we also use but the rest is web based.

Currently, when I get a new PC I have to sign in with my personal MS email, install everything and then set up a new user for the staff member. Is there a better way of doing this?

Also, when I first set up the PC I assumed I would just be able to use the staff email address but it always comes up that the email address doesn’t have a MS, even though they are set up as user on our O365?

Any pointers appreciated thanks.

Berserker · 25 Jan 2022 at 06:41

Not used it myself but there is an official tool to help with this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/deployment-guide-microsoft-365-apps

Michael Myers · 25 Jan 2022 at 14:52

Do you have an Azure AD tenant? you could have the users signing in with their office365 account as standard if so.

Depending on budget you could then look at using Intune to auto deploy applications automatically when they log in. i believe this requires a O365 Business Premium license though or separate Intune license.

Toughnoodle · 25 Jan 2022 at 20:38

You could select "domain join" instead during the Windows first time setup. That'd create a local user on the PC rather than using a Microsoft account.

I don't like the way they expect everyone to want to have a Microsoft account. Also, a Microsoft account is different from a O365 account - they're two different things. I think they're renaming Office365 to Microsoft365 just to make things clearer (muppets).

Django x2 · 28 Jan 2022 at 21:59

To make your life easier, and if you have a willingness to learn

Azure Domain Services (at a minmum, Azure AD, but if you want all the bells and whistles, AAD DS)
Intune
Autopilot

nightmare99 · 31 Jan 2022 at 19:20

Make sure the new PCs have Windows 10 /11 Pro and during OOBE select the option that says "Setup for Work or School" and sign in with the users M365 Business login.