Offline Office installation using ODT

Do you have huge amount of PCs in your network and you don’t want all employees to consume bandwidth by downloading Office applications (word, excel,..) from Office 365?

The answer you will need to use ODT or office deployment tool.

It is a command line tool that you can put in .bat file or in a windows policy at startup or push by any product to your network pcs.

To install the tool download it from this link

Then you need to have 2 configuration files ready, one for download for the first time and other for install and you can have different configurations on those based on your needs.

Example of Download configuration, create file and save it as .xml:

<Add SourcePath="\\Server\Share" 
     OfficeClientEdition="32"
     Channel="Broad" 
     Version="16.0.8201.2193" >
  <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
    <Language ID="en-us" />
    <Language ID="ja-jp" />
  </Product>
  <Product ID="VisioProRetail">
      <Language ID="en-us" />
      <Language ID="ja-jp" />
  </Product>
</Add>  

Example of install configuration for using shared desktop among several users, create such file with extension .xml

<Configuration>
  <Add OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel="Broad" >
    <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail" >
      <Language ID="en-us" />
    </Product>
  </Add>
  <Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="1" />
  <Property Name="PinIconsToTaskbar" Value="TRUE" />
   <Display Level="Full" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
</Configuration>

             
To download use this command:  setup.exe /download downloadconfig.xml

 
           

To Install use this command: setup.exe /configure installconfig.xml

By this way you can save time and bandwidth