

#Cannot uninstall office 2013 0 4 software
So here are the steps and details for doing all this for GPO deployment: Creating Deployment File SharesĬreate a software deployment file share that you have read/write access to and everyone else read only and create a folder called Office365ProPlus inside this to store the binaries.Ĭreate a second file share that everyone has read/write access to (or CREATOR OWNER has write so that only the creator of the file can write it to the share and others can read or not see it at all). But once you have downloaded the Office Deployment Tool and created the XML file in step 3 you can run the deployment tool with setup.exe /download config.xml to download the Office binaries to the file share mentioned in step 1. Steps 1 and 4 are part of a standard Office 365 ProPlus Click To Run deployment process and so not covered in this blog post.
#Cannot uninstall office 2013 0 4 install
A batch file to detect an existing Office 365 ProPlus Click To Run deployment and if not present to install Office 365 ProPlus Click To Run from your file share.An XML file to install Office 365 ProPlus Click To Run customised to your environment and the fact that you are using GPO deployment.A read/write file share to store log files on (the deployment script logs the start and completion of the installation in a central location).A read only file share containing the Office 365 ProPlus Click To Run files.Therefore you need to run the installation by way of a startup script that first checks if Office 365 ProPlus Click To Run has already been installed or not. But this is not simple either as startup scripts run each time the computer starts up (obviously!) but will run regardless of whether the software is already installed.

Therefore you need to deploy the software via a computer startup script. You cannot run software with elevated installation rights, as the setup.exe shells out to other processes to run the installation (the officeclick2run.exe service).You cannot use the “Software Installation” features of GPO’s to deploy the Office 365 ProPlus click to run software as this is an exe file, and “Software Installation” runs MSI files.

Office 365 ProPlus can be deployed via Group Policy, but there are a few things that you need to know and do first. Please see the steps for doing this with Office 365 ProPlus can be found at This article is now out of data, as Office 2013 is not released any more.
