

To deploy Office 365 applications, I’d recommend the Office 2016 Deployment Tool and/or the Click-To-Run Configuration Tool.īatch script + Office Customization Tool (OCT) NOTE: This article is for deploying Microsoft Office 2016 Standard or Professional with a perpetual volume license or MAK key. Browse to the folder holding the the xml and set up files.ġ0.How to silently deploy Microsoft Office 2016, uninstall previous versions of MS Office, migrate existing MAPI profiles, and remove old shortcuts & replace them with new ones. For the Source path, you would put the location of the directory you chose.ĩ. The logging line was put it to log events in event viewer. Here is the the final configuration xml format we use.

We recommend changing the display level variable to "full" instead of "none" so you can view the installation progress. As per the first Microsoft guide, you have to add this at the bottom of the configuration after all the prefilled information to work on RDS environments. If you will be doing 1 directory for all installations as we recommend, put that directory as the source in the xml file. For this purpose we will only be installing office 365 2016 with no extra products, below would be the configuration settings as per the link above for that set up. Click here for the link mentioned in the xml for 2016.Ħ. Right click and edit the xml file, and you'll see microsoft already provides with links on how to set it up and other product id's you can add to install along with office such as Project and Visio. The configuration.xml file is what controls everything and you will edit to install the desired software.ĥ. You'll end up with a setup.exe and a configuration.xml.
