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These are the following tools I used to accomplish a self-extracting Office 365 deployment for post install. You may use other tools if you're comfortable with them, I just found this process easier with the following tools:
Steps
This small step by step tutorial is a combination of various sources, varying from MSDN, NTLite Forums, and TechNet. The main SFX tutorial came from davebold370 here on NTLite forums in this post, so all credit should go to him when it comes to the main functionality of this step by step tutorial.
Mod Edit: Corrected step 5, added missing config file.
These are the following tools I used to accomplish a self-extracting Office 365 deployment for post install. You may use other tools if you're comfortable with them, I just found this process easier with the following tools:
Steps
- Download ODT from Microsoft's official download page, link above.
- Run the ODT executable and accept the EULA, prompt will ask you to extract to a location, choose something easily accessible i.e. C:\Office365\
- Navigate to C:\Office365\ and edit the appropriate Office365 XML configuration file for your device architecture (x86/x64).
- For this example we're going to edit the Office365-x64, replace the configuration with the following (refer to MSDN for supported product IDs):
XML:
<Configuration> <Add OfficeClientEdition="64"> <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail"> <Language ID="en-us" /> </Product> </Add> <Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" /> </Configuration>
- Open a Command Prompt window and change the directory to C:\Office365\ run the following command to download the the full office deployment image (this will take some time to complete depending on your internet speed):
Code:
setup.exe /download configuration-Office365-x64.xml
- Once the download completes, select all files in the directory, open the context menu (right click), and "Add to archive..."
- Checkmark the Create SFX Archive option in the Archiving Options category, verify the Archive name has changed to .exe, and click OK
- Once the self extracting archive is created, right click on the Office356.exe and select "Open with WinRAR"
- In the newly opened WinRAR window, select the SFX option on the toolbar
- Click the "Advanced SFX Options" button at the bottom of the prompt
- In the General tab, change the Path to extract textbox to an easily identifiable path i.e. C:\Office365_Deploy (leave all other options as default on this page)
- Select the Setup tab, and insert the following into Run after extraction and select "Wait and return exit code" (there are no new lines in the code; pass the appropriate architecture config file):
Code:
C:\Office365_Deploy\setup.exe /configure C:\Office365_Deploy\configuration-Office365-x64.xml
- Select the Modes tab, and change Silent mode to "Hide All"
- Click OK for both prompts to finish
- Once WinRAR completes it's commenting process, your SFX executable should look like this
- Add the Office365.exe application to you Post-Setup for your image, make sure it's the last application in your list as it takes quite some time to install.
This small step by step tutorial is a combination of various sources, varying from MSDN, NTLite Forums, and TechNet. The main SFX tutorial came from davebold370 here on NTLite forums in this post, so all credit should go to him when it comes to the main functionality of this step by step tutorial.
Mod Edit: Corrected step 5, added missing config file.
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