• Mac OS X,  Mass Deployment

    Disable the What’s New/First Run Prompts in Office 2016

    Office 2016 shuffled a few minor things around, as it usually does. And while preparing our users to enjoy their Office 2016 experience, admins would like to suppress those dialogs. To do so, we’ll need to write the kSubUIAppCompletedFirstRunSetup1507 key as boolean and true into each of the /Library/Preferences files for Office in OS X (e.g. com.microsoft.Word.plist). Here’s a quick scriptable that will take care of that for ya’: defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word kSubUIAppCompletedFirstRunSetup1507 -bool true defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Outlook kSubUIAppCompletedFirstRunSetup1507 -bool true defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.PowerPoint kSubUIAppCompletedFirstRunSetup1507 -bool true defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Excel kSubUIAppCompletedFirstRunSetup1507 -bool true defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word kSubUIAppCompletedFirstRunSetup1507 -bool true Update on October 29, 2015: A user may have already received…