IT Professionals,
As previously mentioned Endpoint Management Services is implementing a site wide upgrade to M365 for all SCCM managed devices with older versions of Office on September 19. This is a reminder that the deadline to provide an exclusion collection is September 12. If you have a collection created and have not submitted the name of that collection to the endpoint team, please do so before September 12 via this form. An article on creating collections is available in the KB (login required).
To ensure all devices are migrated to Office 365 the endpoint team will be upgrading the remaining devices starting the week of September 19. The upgrade will target four batches of device collections over four consecutive weeks, as per the device upgrade schedule.
The collections are grouped by device count to balance the load of devices updating each week. The counts are based on the total number of devices in the collection not the number of reported old installations. Detection logic will upgrade only the machines that meet the upgrade requirements. For example, your collection might have 32 devices but only one of them might require this upgrade. Please refer to the list of devices that are reporting an older version of Office.
If you have questions about the scheduling of this update or want assistance with the reporting, please send a request to sct2@iu.edu.
–IT Community Partnerships on behalf of Endpoint Management Services