If you have Office for MAC 2016 Volume License or Perpetual License here is how to disable network connections to Office 365 Add-Ins. Steps in this post will stop the login popups trying to connect to officeclient.microsoft.com when starting up Word, Excel or PowerPoint.
**ONLY PERFORM THESE STEP ONCE YOU HAVE ACTIVATED / REGISTERED THE PRODUCT. DISABLING THE POP UP WILL STOP THE ACTIVATION PROCESS. IF YOU FORGET JUST SET INTEGER VALUE BACK TO 2 FROM 0.**
Disable Add-Ins:
defaults write com.microsoft.Word UseOnlineContent -integer 0
defaults write com.microsoft.Excel UseOnlineContent -integer 0
defaults write com.microsoft.Powerpoint UseOnlineContent -integer 0
Disable User Telemetry:
defaults write com.microsoft.Word SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
defaults write com.microsoft.Excel SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
defaults write com.microsoft.Powerpoint SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
defaults write com.microsoft.Outlook SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
defaults write com.microsoft.onenote.mac SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
defaults write com.microsoft.autoupdate2 SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
defaults write com.microsoft.Office365ServiceV2 SendAllTelemetryEnabled -bool FALSE
Disable Crash Reports:
defaults write com.microsoft.errorreporting IsAttachFilesEnabled -bool FALSE
Enable Crash Reports with Disabled User Telemetry (optional):
defaults write com.microsoft.errorreporting IsMerpEnabled -bool TRUE
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