Office deployment tool
I don't know who needs to hear this, but use the Office Deployment Toolkit.
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Is anyone actually able to download the latest office deployment tool? I keep getting 404'd
We sometimes reinstall Office suites just because it can be a quick and easy way to rule out a corrupted installation. Sometimes this happens after an update.
I still remember rookie me a few months ago (I'm still a rookie, but a more experience one), needing to reinstall an Office suite but the end user had 14 language packs installed. I had the user on call, so I couldn't have prepped for the call. I manually uninstalled every single language pack, 15 mins a pop. I was sweating. I messed up by not having the balls to admit it'd take longer than 30 mins. I sent a distress beacon in the group chat asking if there was a better way to do this. I was getting half-baked replies- suggestions thrown over the fence. I felt like I had to do it on my own, and since by that time I had already uninstalled 8 language packs, I figured I'd power through.
I just put a folder called ODT in our shared document library with several XML files, one for each common purpose. I did this on a Surface laptop and cleaned up all the language packs and installed the two language packs I wanted in less than fifteen minutes, I might even say ten, I didn't count specifically. Another Surface was struggling a bit with uninstallation until I finally got it to work.
I still need to work out the kinks and figure out just exactly why the first laptop worked perfectly and the other laptop needed a bit more kicks to it. One thing to note is that for the first laptop, I used the offline Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant tool to uninstall the language packs, and for the second one, I attempted the same, eventually ended up trying an uninstall .xml file.
I still need time to completely master this and figure out what these tools need to work properly (think Click to run vs .msi installations), but I'm excited that I finally took the time to do this. Once I figure out how to use this on all our machines, regardless of brand, I'll save so much time.
Who else is using ODT/SaRA? Any tips and tricks? (Our Office suites are rolled out via Intune, so no ODT during app installation.)
I've spent a few hours on and off over the past few weeks looking it up and as far as I can tell there is no way to remotely and silently deploy office without logging into that computer and running the setup.exe as an admin. Please tell me I'm wrong because if not how do companies with 10k's of computers deploy this shite?
EDIT: While I still think microsoft sucks for not giving us an msi, it turns out my install path was wrong in my ps script so that method does work for me.