I am just completing an installation of Office365 (2013) to nearly 4000 devices. We are a regional bank with about 200 branches spread across 4 states (5 if you count a single branch a mile or so across the state line). We have a handful of non-branch offices and several training rooms in addition to the branches We are using a single core with preferred servers for each location. We installed the click-to-run version of office 2013, which at the time we started this about a year ago was all Microsoft offered under the office 365 licenses. Click-to-Run is basically a virtualized installation of office. The challenges we faced were around the installation across the low speed connections to the branches (typically T1) as well as the update process across these lines.
I would be happy to offer advice based upon my experience however I do have some questions:
- Exactly what are you wanting to deploy, only Outlook and Word? Why not the traditional suite of Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.?
- What type of license do you have? If it's a 365 license you would likely be doing the click to run installation, although I've heard you can now get a waiver from Microsoft to be able to do the traditional MSI installation.
- What is your infrastructure like, is everything on a single campus connected on a high speed network or do you have multiple locations across slow links?
- What does your Landesk installation look like? Single core and nothing else or do you have preferred servers deployed? Can you support Multicast?
- When are you needing to deploy this?