Full will present the user with the UI for the installation but they will not be prompted to answer any questions. I have opted for None to make this a silent installation but you could opt for Full. Another option which you may find useful is the Display Level. A full list of applications you can exclude is available at the TechNet reference page. I have also opted to exclude Access, InfoPath and Publisher from my installation as I don’t have an need for these applications. If you are using per-user licensing then you need to remove the entire PIDKEY value. This PIDKEY value is where you provide your product key if you are using one.

You will notice that in the Product section of these files, I have a value called PIDKEY. I have created three files: one for Office, one for Project and another for Visio, all of which I have included below to save you some time. Once you’ve got the sample configuration.xml file, you can use this, along with the reference at for generating your custom configuration file. In my case, I am doing all three: Office, Project and Visio and once you have created these folders, copy the setup.exe file to each sub-folder. Within this folder, create sub-folders for each of the Office products you want to configure. I unpacked the setup.exe file to a folder on the root of my drive for easy access.

The installer for this doesn’t actually install an application but merely unpacks a setup.exe file and a sample configuration.xml file. Download the Deployment Toolįirst things first, go to and get the Office 2016 Deployment Tool.

If you don’t have this already, you can generate it using the tool but I was able to get the offline source from the MSDN. The Office 2016 Deployment Tool and you are going to need an offline source for Office 2016. In order to be able to perform an offline installation of Office 2016, you are going to need two things. This will work for Configuration Manager customers as well as customers using a manual installation process. This post is going to cover how to build an offline source and perform an unattended installation of Office 2016. msi based installation coming for volume license customers on October 1st.Īs it happens, in Office 2016, the Click-to-Run experience is actually quite nice compared to previous instances of it and while I’ve been running the preview builds of Office 2016, I certainly haven’t seen any issues with performance so I see no reason not to use Click-to-Run now given that if you ever decide to remove Office from the machine, it will leave you with a cleaner slate. Office 2016 at present is only available in the Click-to-Run format but if the Office 365 Community is to be believed there will be an. With the release of Office 2016, Visio 2016 and Project 2016, many will want to start thinking about their upgrade.

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