The provided setup.exe of this tool enables you to download Office, in case needed, but can also be used to install Office from an existing network folder where the installation files reside.
The way to configure a click-to-run installation of Office 365 2016 is by using the Office 2016 Deployment Tool: Īfter downloading and installing this tool, there are a couple of command line parameters available.
Using setup.exe with whatever parameter results in a full Office 2016 installation. It is still possible though, that some plug-ins do not function as expected.ĭuring the making of a customized installation based on Office 365 2016, there unfortunately is no Office Customization Tool available. Besides that, the Office applications are being installed in an isolated environment on the desktop leaving already installed applications untouched, still able to communicate with each other. The biggest advantage of click-to-run installations is that they are always up-to-date and contain most recnte updates and security patches when they are being download and installed.
This technolgy is based on streaming and virtualisation possibilities based on Microsoft App-V.Ĭlick-to-run is an alternative for traditional Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI/MSP) method of installing and update Microsoft Office. A click to run file is a file that’s based on streaming and virtualisation technology to (at this time only) Office products and their updates can be installed. This setup.exe file is a click to run-file. In this Office 365 2016 iso file there’s still a setup.exe that can be started. Also it is possible to add a configuration file where are some settings with mainly language settings.
With this tool a couple of steps can be done to add some company and license information, files, registry keys to make a msp file that can be applied by on the command line by setup.exe /adminfile “path to msp file”. A new Office msp file can be created or an existing one can be opened. This tool is available from the Office installer itself and can be run Using the command setup.exe /admin.
The regular installation can be changed en configured using the Office Customization Tool. The way in which these Office 365 2016 is beining installed, is by means of a so called Click-to-run installation. The Office 365 2016 version folder structure looks like this:Ī couple of folders containing dat and cab files. It’s the same folder structure as previous Office versions. The VL version presents a folder structure like shown in the picture below:Ī setup.exe with a whole bunch of folders with different office components in it. De VL version can be downloaded at the VL portal and the 365-versioncan be downloaded for example at MDSN and is also available for the Office 265 subscribers.Īt first sight both downloaded iso files look the same, but as soon as they are extracted a big difference will be shown. This blog describes de biggest difference between both files and how they can be deployed within a desktop environment.Ĭurrently there are two types of Office 2016 installation: the volume licensed version and the Office 365 version of Microsoft Office 2016. Both downloaded files look the same, but there is a big difference in how they are being installed. At the VL license portal of Microsoft as well as MSDN Office 2016 is downloadable as a iso-file, containing de installation files of Mcrosoft Office’s most recent version. Starting with the MSDN subscribers, followed by the the rest of the world in beginning of October for those who have a so called volume license (VL). On September 22 nd, Microsoft’s latest Office version, 2016 was released. As a general rule, if someone has flair, they almost definitely know what they're talking about.Microsoft Office 2016 deployment: the old versus the new way
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