![]() ![]() I'll mount a WSUS later if/when Windows 11 will be forced by Microsoft.ĮDIT : Apparently you can't simply get a VLSC when you're currently using 365 Admin center on your tenant to assign licenses. As I had no budget nor time for it, I instead tasked the lab manager to manually update all computers every 3rd Monday, after Patch Tuesday, and it's going great so far. I also had to deal with the Windows Update going through whatever we did last year, as far as I researched, a WSUS seems to be the only way to keep WAN and prevent forced updates. So if it comes to paying licences, I'll make sure it goes to R&D or customer support, as I normally don't deal with clients-related things. We have a lab of our own to replicate the clients' environments but they refuse to have a fully offline computer to try this kind if setup because then it's too annoying to retrieve data, often averaging 300+ Gb. From what they experienced, these labs are often underground in rooms in which data roaming doesn't go through, so a wifi dongle and phone connection sharing wasn't possible either.Īpparently the software which generates the Excel files used to generate stuff that could be worked on with freeware, but it wasn't really intentional, and new versions don't. Same thing on our end, it's for high-end lab work, and their IT often doesn't want to open their network nor domain to our computers that our customer support manages almost entirely. ![]() These computers are sold to our clients as parts for the machine we sell (machine is controlled by the software and generates data for the clients). I should ask that account manager im friends with to see if they ever had to go through reactivation for you. Any reason why these computers have to be offline? Can they maybe get online for a few minutes to just activate? You might be in the same case as me for a client before. ![]() I cannot imagine trying to do 500+ offline installs calling offline each time to get an activation code. There might be a better method than what I have mentioned as well for deploying large amounts of offline installs. While some here may find it not cool I see something that is not in a scope of business we support. I am not too sure how high up or who will listen but depending on that contract you could potentially charge them more to support this to push them to almost not to. A lot had older versions of office which refused to install. (Was an engineering reseller they went through so they had a lot of instructions behind that paywall unfortunately.) It took about a couple of days to figure out the best method. Months later asked if we could get office installed on all of them. (It was not the best but it was a good temp situation) We moved those computers to a new VLAN that has only access to the LAN network but not WAN. So for the reason we got into this for my end was we had a client who does some serious lab work with million $+ equipment and well windows updates no matter disabling services, removing services, etc they would find a way in even with our automation trying to block it. Yeah this at least gives you enough time to try and convince the client that whatever they are doing is going to be more costly, more issues, and just problems. Have you used it recently? Would there be another similar tool that you used for a similar situation? Looks exactly like what I'm looking for! Problem : last version is from 2010 and I can't find if it's still updated/supported by Microsoft. Other than the typical "free, seemingly perfect solution, from our shady unknown website, with an unsigned installer" Google shows up, I stumbled upon Microsoft's Office Starter which looked like a good solution to install Office on a USB device, so you can use it on any computer, without installation, nor internet connection. The computers' environment is very specific, I can explain more in the comments if you want. Office alternatives don't work on the files to be worked on. This USB device will then go on computers with no internet connection, nor any local Office installation, outside of any domain. I was looking into ways to install the Office suite on a USB device for a request I received. ![]()
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