In this blog post, we will be deploying Office 2016 ProPlus (retail; Click-to-Run (C2R)) with Office 2016 Deployment Tool (ODT) and System Center Configuration Manager.

Office 2016 Deployment Tool (ODT)

To begin, we need to get the Office 2016 Deployment Tool (ODT). That can be downloaded from here, Microsoft Download Center. Create a folder on your SCCM application source folder, I called mine, “Office 2016“. Install the deployment tool on your SCCM server, save the extracted files to the folder you just created. Once the installation is complete, the following two files will be found:

Next, we need to create an XML file within the folder. I copied the original “configuration.xml” and called it, “Office 2016 Config.xml” and updated its contents to below. In my deployment, I am deploying Office 2016 32-bit. However, if you are deploying 64 bit, then just change OfficeClientEdition=”32″ to OfficeClientEdition=”64″.

<Configuration>
<Add SourcePath="your path to source files" OfficeClientEdition="32"> >
 <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
 <Language ID="en-us" />
 </Product>
 </Add>
</Configuration>

Next, we need to run Command Prompt (run as Administrator), and run, “setup.exe” with the XML file we just created/modified. After this completes (give it a few minutes), you should now have the following four files within your folder.

setup.exe /download "Office 2016 Config.xml"

Next, we need to update the, “configuration.xml” file. This file is used to deploy Office 2016. As previously, we have set the version to 32-bit, again change this to 64, if you are deploying 64-bit Office. In this deployment, I am deploying a per-user licensing model, if you are using a product key per machine, you will need to add, “PIDKEY” value to the configuration file.

<Configuration>
<Add OfficeClientEdition="32">
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail"
<Language ID="en-us" />
</Product>
</Add>
<Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
</Configuration>

Now we are ready to create and deploy our application package!

Create Application Deployment

First, we need to create the application package. We will choose the manual “Manually specify the application information” approach here.

Next, we need to provide some application information. Office 2016 deployment, owner, etc…

Now we need to add and create the deployment type…

Next, we will choose “Manually specify the deployment type information“.

Again, give this deployment a name, and some descriptive comment(s).

Now, we need to specify the location of the source/installation file(s), and need to specify the “configuration.xml” file.

Next, we want to add a detection clause. Essentially, this deployment, once deployed, will validate against this code to confirm the installation was successful and both the detection code and product code match.

Note, if the deployment “fails”, yet the Office suite installed, confirm the product code and detection code match.

For the detection method, we will choose, Windows Installer, and the following Product code: {90160000-008C-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE}.

Next we will select, Install, and leave the Logon requirement to either.

We have no requirements and/or dependencies for this, but for completeness, here are those screenshot windows.

Great! Deployment is complete. Now we need to complete the application deployment wizard.

Great, application deployment is now complete. Now we need to deploy the package itself… Let’s do that.

Deploy Package Deployment to Collection(s)

Right click and select your collection, in this case, my collection is a test group, named “Test1”.

Specify the distribution point…

We are going to mark Install and Available for the deployment settings here.

Provide a set time for the deployment to kick off, remember to set it to the correct time of day.. (struggled for a few deployments, after learning I forgot to set to AM…)

We will give the user the option to install, as the update will appear in their Software Center.

Now we if go to our client machine(s). I am testing on both Windows 7 and Windows 10 machines.

Validate Deployment

If we go into the Software Center, check under the “Available Software”, we now see the Office 2016 ready for deployment! Go ahead hit Install Selected, and let the magic happen!

Windows 7

We can validate the deployment, as we see the Office 2016 applications within the start menu.

Likewise for Windows 10:

 

For complete information on this deployment, please feel free to visit Microsoft’s article.