
Once they did, a window as per the below, was shown to the end user: When first launching any of the ‘core three’ Office applications (Word, PowerPoint and Excel, but strangely not Outlook), these took between 2-5 minutes to launch. This deployed and installed without complaint. The ProblemĪmongst other applications, the client was deploying Microsoft’s Office for Mac 2016 suite using a site-license for all Macs. The Macs in question are running El Capitan (10.11.4 at the time), joined to AD and utilise a Kerberised proxy solution, configured to fall back to NTLM (the ‘proxy authentication popup’) if the device is not authorised for the HTTP/HTTPS traffic in question. The client in question has only just started supporting Macs internally. In this post I’ll share some information I’ve found whilst working with Microsoft Office 2016 at a client’s site with high security requirements. The proxy pop messages still occurring as per the below.

Since originally drafting this blog, the slow launch issue detailed below has been fixed with version 15.24 of the Microsoft 2016 applications.
