Deploying Microsoft Office with the Office Deployment Tool

If you don’t already have it, Download the Office Deployment Tool, and run it.

- Accept the EULA

- Browse for, Create, and Select a folder to extract the files to
- The following files will now be in that folder:
o configuration-Office365-x64.xml
o configuration-Office365-x86.xml
o configuration-Office2019Enterprise.xml
o setup.exe

The config.xml file can be created by editing one of the default configuration .xml files that came with the Office
Deployment Tool, or it can be created at https://config.office.com/deploymentsettings.

Example XML Document:

<Configuration ID=”f8af6f68-be81-4c88-ab12-d667749bb86f”>
<Add OfficeClientEdition=”32” Channel=”PerpetualVL2019” ForceUpgrade=”TRUE”>
<Product ID=”ProPlus2019Volume” PIDKEY=””>
<Language ID=”en-us” />
<ExcludeApp ID=”Groove” />
<ExcludeApp ID=”OneNote” />
</Product>
</Add>
<Property Name=”Shared Computer Licensing” Value=”0” />
<Property Name=”PinIconsToTaskbar” Value=”TRUE” />
<Property Name=”SCLCacheOverride” Value=”0” />
<Property Name=”AUTOACTIVATE” Value=”TRUE” />
<Updates Enabled=”TRUE” />
<RemoveMSI />
<Display Level=”Full” AcceptEULA=”TRUE” />
<Logging Level=”Standard” Path=”” />
</Configuration>

Be sure that you save your configuration file in the same folder that you extracted the ODT files to. Name it
something you’ll remember. I named mine ‘configuration.xml’.

Open up a command prompt, and navigate to the folder where your ODT files were extracted to. For instance, I
extracted to a folder called ‘ODT2019’ in my Downloads folder. So, I typed this into cmd:

cd Downloads\ODT2019

(This is because CMD automatically opened to “C:\Users\shayes”, where the Downloads folder lives).

Next, in the CMD prompt, type:

setup.exe /download configuration.xml

This will download all the Office Setup Files to install Office
NOTE: including the configuration.xml file should limit the files that are being downloaded to only those needed
for this specific installation. If you just run setup.exe /download - it will download ALL setup files.

Once the download has finished:

1) If you are on the PC that Office will be installed on:

a. Run the following command in that same CMD Prompt:
setup.exe /configure configuration.xml
2) If you are NOT on the PC that Office will be installed on:
a. Create a ZIP file of all the contents in the folder that you extracted the ODT Files to
(For Instance, I would right click on C:\Users\shayes\Downloads\ODT2019, and select Send To >
Compressed (zipped) folder)
b. Copy this to the PC that Office will be installed on, and Extract it.
c. Open up CMD and navigate to where you extracted the zip (be sure you navigate to the folder
containing the setup.exe and configuration.xml files – as Microsoft has been known to
extract zip contents into an additional folder).
d. Run the following command in that same CMD Prompt:
setup.exe /configure configuration.xml