Install Microsoft Office 365 on Server 2016

This was adapted very, very, slightly from this original blog post by Daniel Z. Stinson, thank you!

  1. Download Office Deployment Tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=49117
    Extract to a simple path such as c:\Files\Office_Deploy
  2. Create share on the folder you created above. I shared the folder named “Office_Deploy” and set “Full Permissions” to “Everyone”
  3. Edit the configuration-Office365-x86.xml file to be the following below. Edit line 2 to be the path to your share that you created in the previous step:

    <Configuration>
    <Add SourcePath="\\YOURSERVER\Office_Deploy\" OfficeClientEdition="32" >
    <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
    <Language ID="en-us" />
    </Product>
    </Add>
    <!-- <Updates Enabled="TRUE" UpdatePath="\\Server\Share\" /> -->
    <Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
    <Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="1" />
    <!-- <Logging Path="%temp%" /> -->
    <!-- <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" /> -->
    </Configuration>

  4. Run the following from an elevated command prompt:

    C:\Files\Office_Deploy>.\setup.exe /download configuration-Office365-x86.xml
    This downloads the installer files/package.

  5. Wait for files to download, there is no visual confirmation, but I did see an “Office” folder get created.
  6. Run the following from an elevated command prompt:
    C:\Files\Office_Deploy>.\setup.exe /configure configuration-Office365-x86.xml

Enjoy!

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