Fortunately Microsoft provides an official tool to customize Click-to-Run installer optionsso that you can force the installer to install your desired Office programs only. This tool is called 'Office Deployment Tool' and is available for Office 2013, Office 2016and Office 2019versions. The Office Customization Tool for Click-to-Run solution is a Web application designed to make it easier for IT pros to customize Office 365 ProPlus deployments. The tool possibly has been.
- My work around was to run the Office removal tool, reboot. Then go into the credential manager and delete anything that was Office 365 related. After that I went to office 365, under the users account and installed the 32 bit version which worked.
- When you start the setup of Office 2016 or 2019, it installs all the applications based on some predefined settings. This behavior is often undesirable. Therefore, you can customize the installation using the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) and a configuration file.
- Fortunately Microsoft provides an official tool to customize Click-to-Run installer options so that you can force the installer to install your desired Office programs only. This tool is called 'Office Deployment Tool' and is available for Office 2013, Office 2016 and Office 2019 versions. With the help of this tool, you can download Office.
Today we are announcing a preview of the Office Customization Tool for Click-to-Run, a simple to use web application that enables desktop administrators to customize Office 365 clients.
Until today, Windows desktop administrators would use notepad or an equivalent text editor to compile various XML statements to define the Office edition, feature update frequency, version, language and other number of available settings. This somewhat tedious task, in most cases, would result in installation errors from fouled up manual entries or copy-and-paste actions into the text editor.
With the new Office Customization Tool, desktop admins can leverage the rich user interface that intuitively shows all available options to build the desired Office configurations. The configuration tool groups the commonly used settings in the following categories:
- software & language
- installation & update
- licensing & display
Each of these areas provide admins with options to help meet their security and regulatory needs.
One of our favorite additions, is the configuration builder. Desktop admins can quickly see a list of all configuration settings being chosen on the right-hand side of the screen, giving the desktop admin a quick and easy way to see the result of their selections without jumping through multiple screens.
When all the desired settings have been selected, desktop admins are provided with the option to download the resulting configuration.xml file which is to be used in conjunction with the Office Deployment Tool for the settings to take affect during installation time of the Office 365 client.
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Desktop Admin also have an option to upload any previously configured XML files to the configuration tool and modify them with new or existing settings.
Office 365 Customization Tool
For those of you who are familiar with the old Win32 Office Customization Tool which came with your perpetual (MS Installer) bits, you’ll notice the new customization tool has a lack of install-time user preferences. Over the next several months we will be enhancing the tool to enable desktop admins to select many configurable user preferences that are currently being offered with the perpetual counterpart. We encourage you to try out the new Office Customization Tool which is available in preview today, by clicking on the link or typing http://config.office.com in your browser. Send us feedback and let us know what you think by using the send a smile feature, located on the top right of the web application.
Amesh Mansukhani
Senior Program Manager – Office Engineering