Network DeploymentWednesday, July 17, 20139:47 PM

Deploying Office 365 Through Network Deployment

Please go through the below steps to Deploy Office 365.

STEP 1: Download office deployment tool from a link given below http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=36778

STEP 2: CREATE A FOLDER 'OFFICE 2013' ON THE DESKTOP AND DOWNLOAD THE FILE FROM THE ABOVE LINK IN THE FOLDER

THEN DOUBLE CLICK THE ABOVE TOOL YOU WILL GET THE BELOW SCREEN AND SAVE THE FILE IN 'OFFICE 2013' FOLDER WHICH WE CREATED ON DESKTOP IN THE PREVIOUS STEP:

WHEN YOU CLICK ON OK YOU WILL GET THE BELOW SCREEN WHERE YOU WILL FIND 2 FILES:

1. SETUP.2. CONFIGURATION.

NOW RIGHT CLICK AND OPEN THE CONFIGURATION FILE IN NOTEPAD AS SHOWN BELOW:

COPY THE CONTENT FROM THE NOTEPAD AS SHOWN BELOW

CREATE A NEW NOTEPAD IN THE "OFFICE 2013"FOLDER AND PASTE THE COPIED CONTENT IN THE NOTPAD AS SHOWN BELOW

NOW REMOVE THE <!-- COMMENTED IN ORDER TO EXCUTE THE LINES AS SHOWN BELOW

ALSO OFFICECLIENTEDITION CAN BE "32" OR "64" DEPENDING UPON THE CUSTOMERS NEED.LANGUAGE ID: IN WHICH LANGUAGE CUSTOMER WANTS TO INSTALL OFFICE.

NOW UNCOMMENT THE UPDATE OPTION AND SET AS "TRUE" AND GIVE THE PATH OF OFFICE 2013 FOLDER. DISPLAY LEVEL=Full (MAKE SURE TO HAVE "F" IN UPPER CASES).

UNCOMMENT THE PROPERTY NAME AND THE VALUE=1 INDICATES THE ACTIVATION IS SET BY DEFAULT.

NOW SAVE THE FILE AS "proplus.xml" AND FILE TYPE AS "ALL FILES"

NOW COPY THE 3 FILES:

3. Proplus.xml 2)CONFIGURATION 3) SETUP

NOW CREATE A NEW FOLDER IN C:DRIVE AND NAME IS AS "Office" AND PASTE THE ABOVE 3 FILES IN IT.

NOW WE NEED TO SHARE THE "OFFICE " FOLDER WITH EVERYONE IN A NETWORK. FOR THIS RIGHT CLICK ON OFFICE FOLDER AND SHARE WITH EVERYONE

MAKE SURE TO GIVE A "READ AND WRITE" PERMISSION.

NOW THE OFFICE FOLDER IS SHARED WITH EVERYONE.

PLEASE FIND THE LINK RELATED TO SHARING PERMISSION: http://blogs.technet.com/b/odsupport/archive/2012/11/20/office-2013-installation-hangs-at-10-percent-when-installing-from-a-network-share.aspx NOW OPEN THE COMMAND PROMPT AND RUN AS AN ADMINISTRATOR.

NOW RUN THE BELOW 2 LINKS:

4. This should be on the server Machine:

\\server name\office\setup.exe / download \\server name\office\proplus.xml

5. This should be on Client Machines:

\\server name\Office\setup.exe / configure \\server name\Office\proplus.xml

And then the Office 365 can be Log-in through the End User

A complete list of application names and IDs is as follows:

Application Name Application IDAccess <ExcludeApp ID="Access" />Excel <ExcludeApp ID="Excel" />InfoPath <ExcludeApp ID="InfoPath" />Lync <ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />OneDrive for Business <ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />OneNote <ExcludeApp ID="OneNote" />Outlook <ExcludeApp ID="Outlook" />PowerPoint <ExcludeApp ID="PowerPoint" />Project <ExcludeApp ID="Project" />Publisher <ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" />SharePoint Designer <ExcludeApp ID="SharePointDesigner" />Visio <ExcludeApp ID="Visio" />Word <ExcludeApp ID="Word" />