Outlook 2016 Plist Location

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For my first post.. I thought I’d share how I’ve tackled setup of Microsoft Office 2016 in our university environment for both shared lab & staff Macs.

Settings configured:

  • Update Autoupdate (ironic, no?)
  • Remove first run pop-ups/telemetry
  • Personalise the apps user info
  • Set all apps in the suite to auto update
  • Disable insider updates
  1. First publish of scripts and plist files. These were referenced during the 2016 PSU MacAdmins presentation “Managing Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac, Part Deux”.
  2. Autosave File Location Plist. We have had issues with out autosave functionality when the file location is set to the default location. It saves deep within the libary/containers.so on. We have found though that this can be hit or miss of actually autosaving the files as we have had multiple peoples office crash and lose all their work (they.

All of this setup in a single script, deployed via a JAMF Pro policy which I also include pkg installers from https://macadmins.software.

Plist

This is much easier to update & more reliable than previous mixed pkg/dmg/script setups I’ve had in the past..

Outlook 2016 pst location windows 10

I’d be keen to hear what does/doesn’t work for you..

Outlook 2016 Plist Locations

How to Transfer an Office 365 / Office 2016 license When compared to the process of moving a 2010 or 2013 license, migrating an Office 365 / Office 2016 license feels like a walk in the park. With these latest Office iterations, you’ll need to deactivate and uninstall the license of the first system before migrating it. You should use InfoPlist.strings file to localize values of Info.plist. To do this, go to File-New-File, choose Strings File under Resource tab of iOS, name it InfoPlist, and create. Open and insert the Info.plist values you want to localize like: Now you can localize InfoPlist.strings file with translations. Intro Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac had a rough start for sure. With that being said things have gotten better and quite rapidly. This post will focus on where Office 2016 for Mac currently stands, commonly asked questions, best practices, and solutions for updates. This post should serve as a overview of the changes to Office 2016 (O2016) for Mac from about November 2015 to Present (January.