Monday, December 15, 2014

Setup Office to be installed in a task sequence

To customize Office Setup, use the command line setup.exe /admin to start the Office Customization Tool. In this example (using Configuration Manager 2007 to deploy the Office Professional Plus 2010), at a command prompt, run setup.exe /admin from the package source directory,

To ensure that Office Professional Plus 2010 is silently installed, modify and configure the settings as follows:

In the Licensing and user interface dialog box, set the Display Level to None, which will then enable the Suppress modal check box.

Verify that the Completion notice and No Cancel options are not selected.

Enter a valid 25-character volume license key in the Product Key box that is located under Licensing and user interface.

Select the “I accept the terms in the License Agreement check box”.

Save and name the newly created .msp file, and then put it in the \Updates folder for Office Professional Plus 2010 on the computer that contains the package source directory, which in this example is …Office14\Updates\CustomOffice2010SilentInstall.MSP.
Caution:


During the initial installation of Office Professional Plus 2010 if there are multiple .msp files that are located in the Updates folder (the Setup customization file that was created by using the OCT), you need to ensure that the Setup customization file is the update applied at the beginning of the installation. This is performed by ensuring the desired .msp file is alphabetically first. In this example, if there were more than one .msp file, you would rename the file CustomOffice2010SilentInstall.MSP to 1_CustomOffice2010SilentInstall.MSP. For additional information about how to deploy updates during an initial installation of Office Professional Plus 2010, see Distribute product updates for the 2007 Office system (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=146924).