Who'd have thought that installing Office can be a royal PIA? What's more, it's install-all only and no uninstaller.
So here's a customised Office configuration to use with the Office Deployment Tool for the two variations of Windows installations.
All configurations install the 64bit edition of Office and remove the following:
- Access
- Lync
- Outlook
- Publisher
via:
<ExcludeApp ID="Access" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Outlook" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" />
Also ensures updates are installed.
Installs the O365ProPlusRetail
version downloading it to C:\OfficeSetup\
.
Installs the ProPlus2021Retail
version downloading it to C:\OfficeSetup\
.
Additionally removes:
- Teams
- OneDrive
- OneNote
via:
<ExcludeApp ID="OneDrive" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Teams" />
<ExcludeApp ID="OneNote" />
With the ODT Tool extracted, run the profile first to download components:
PS> setup.exe /download office2021pro-config-home.xml
Then install with:
PS> setup.exe /configure office2021pro-config-home.xml