We also get Microsoft Defender, which I don't think was mentioned during setup :-( I had to remove that
There's a button or line you need to click to customize the setup at the 2nd or 3rd installation step. You can also use imazing profile editor (free app) and create a profile to customize the install process. It has options that let you block the installation of certain apps (Defender, Onedrive, MAU, etc) from the Office package and set some policies kind of similar with what you can do in Windows via gpo/regedit. I haven't tested this imazing app with Office, but for other apps that can be configured by it and it worked really well.
Substantially, 2024 was an update for the previous 2021/23 version as my about window on word is showing this: Version 16.89.1 (24091630) And it was updated recently without using the serializer for 2024. It was still showing LTSC 2021.
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Haven't used Office for macOS before. I just installed Office suite 2024 (without Teams) with the serializer (SWDVD5_Office_Mac_Serializer_2024_MLF_X23-81811). Do I really need to create a Microsoft account and sign in to use it or just skip the sign-in part? Thank you very much for helping.
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When I fresh install a copy of Office and run the activator, I noticed after few hours my computer tries to connect two adult websites eis.de and some other german adult site. Has anyone encountered this issue?
Yes, I had a clean install of Office and used Serializer with no other program and I have Adguard home DNS controller that would show that there was attempt from my computer to these two particular adult website. It happens two three times after I reformat and clean install MacOS Sequioa and there is a delay of several hours when these connection attempts were made. If I don't install the serializer, I don't see any such attempt.