Office Telemetry in Office 2013
Ignite Webcast
January 22nd, 2013
Presenter: David Matsumoto
Testing
Inventory
Traditional Process
2013
Modern Process
Discover target
file/addin directly
Discover critical Sanity
files/addins Testing
Side-by-Side Piloting
and Monitoring
Piloting
MSI
Click-to-Run
Installs can easily take 30 minutes or more
Basis of Office deployments since Office 2000
To be offered as VL media in new Office
Device-based activation
Highly customizable per device
Allows local apps to interact with it
First launch is up and running in about two minutes
Is primary installation type in the new Office
Is linked to Office 365 for managed customers
User-based activation
Also highly customizable per device
Also allows local apps to interact with it
Does not require App-V infrastructure or MDOP
Today’s application virtualization
Features loaded on demand
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Local application integration
Side-by-side version support
EXE
EXE
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Testing
Inventory
Traditional Process
2013
Modern Process
Discover target
file/addin directly
Discover critical Sanity
files/addins Testing
Side-by-Side Piloting
and Monitoring
Piloting
!
Modern
Discover
Rationalize
Validate
Manage

Discover what is being
used
Discovered data leads
prioritization
Proactive success
monitoring
Continuous monitoring
Future Planning
Discover what is being used
by who & how often
Office file use and installed add-ins
Collects file meta data
not actual file
Discovered data leads prioritization
File and Solution use views
Drive selection of pilot needs
Users
Files
Solutions
Proactive success monitoring
Manage and react to issues
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Continuous data collection
Understand how Office is used
Proactive issue isolation
Manage on-going updates
Add-in management
Putting process into
practice…
…Telemetry can help
Frequency of
documents /
solutions used
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Report detected
issues /
performance
Elements
Telemetry Log
Captures local compatibility events
Excel based consumption of local events
Telemetry Dashboard
Centralized view of events across the organization
Analyze trends in use and success
Inventory Agent
Agent available for legacy Office versions
Captures recently used files and solutions
Demo
Telemetry Overview
How does it work?
How Office Telemetry Works
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Demo
Managing Add-ins
via Telemetry Dashboard
Obfuscate
the file properties
Specify
Office solutions /
file type
Filter out
used by less than
x people
Filter
Skype acquisition plan.docx
Sk********(1).docx
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Planning…
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Group Policy template
Office 2013
PreOffice 2013
office15.admx and office15.adml
System info
User Configuration\Administrative
Templates\Microsoft Office
2013\Telemetry
Dashboard
Most
recently used files
Static scan
Add-ins in startup
Registry settings
Registered
add-ins
Windows Registry
Editor
Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0
\osm]
Runtime events
"CommonFileShare"="\\\\<SERVERNAME>\\<SHARENAME>"
Telemetry
"Tag1"="<TAG1>"
Issue logging
"Tag2"="<TAG2>"
"Tag3"="<TAG3>"
%localappdata%/Microsoft/Office/15.0/Telemetry/*.tbl
"Tag4"="<TAG4>"
"AgentInitWait"=dword:00000258
"Enablelogging"=dword:00000001
as viewer
"EnableUpload"=dword:00000001
"EnableFileObfuscation"=dword:00000000
"AgentRandomDelay"=dword:000000F0
Telemetry Log
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Group Policy template
office15.admx and office15.adml
User Configuration
\Administrative Templates
\Microsoft Office 2013
\Telemetry Dashboard
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Minimum components required for
Telemetry Dashboard system
Telemetry
Dashboard
Telemetry
database
Telemetry
processor
Shared folder
These components can run on the same computer or on
different computers. You can deploy multiple telemetry
processors if needed.
Shared
folder
Telemetry
processor
Telemetry Shared folder
processor
Up to 100000 users
Telemetry
Dashboard
Telemetry
database
Telemetry Shared folder
processor
Telemetry Shared folder
processor
Dedicated server
Shared
folder
Up to 10 pairs
Telemetry
processor
Add additional servers with Telemetry
Processor and Shared folder to scale or to
collect data from remote sites
Up to 50000 users per
each pair
Deploy-TelemetryDashboard.ps1
Modern
Discover
Rationalize
Validate
Manage

Discover what is being
used
Discovered data leads
prioritization
Proactive success
monitoring
Continuous monitoring
Future Planning
Critical
 Scan/Find all of them (Inventory)
 Cross off the ones that don’t meet the
bar (Rationalization)
Does it make sense to create a list of
10 million documents, and then
cross off 99.99% of that list?
Goal:
 Partner with Business Areas
 Track
 Ask
 Office docs/apps not traditionally ITmanaged
Discovery; Not Inventory
Piloting
Testing
Side-by-Side
“Barrier free
UAT!”
No Fear
 Testing
Testing
discovery
reassurance
Dashboard
Reassurance
Partner with
Business areas
Discovery; Not Inventory
Telemetry data is a
conversation starter…not
replacement
Tools
Complement
Process
Tools provide data…not
answers
Safety Net = Be
bold!
C2R enables safe
production
testing/piloting
Manage the
future…or the
past
Telemetry features help
prepare for Office 2010 or
newer (or future) releases
Interested in
deploying
Telemetry in
production?
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Read more
about Telemetry
on TechNet
Library and Blog
articles
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Download
deployment
script and quickly
get up and
running!
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http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Setting-upOffice-1749df3b
http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/ff394407(v=office.15).aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_resource_kit/