Multiple Microsoft app deployment failure

I'd re-read and follow the office part again. The Office bit is in an SFX format with the /S switch. I don't understand why you have the xml for it separate. That should be inside the sfx
 
There are several problems with your deployment, because they don't follow the exact instructions.

1. Office C2R (Click to Run) is the only way of installing Office on-the-fly (web setup). If you want to deploy an offline image, then the /download step must be made ahead of time on another host. Even if you could run /download right there, that would require a very long wait time for each Windows install.

2. The SFX method tries to work around the problem that Office Setup needs to be in the same folder as the deployment XML. It extracts all files to a single folder, and self-executes setup.exe with a proper command line. If you follow the SFX process, then you simply Add the SFX installer file to Post-Setup, and you're done.

3. If you want to run the Office Setup command yourself, it's better to add a wrapper script which simply changes to the offline folder directory, before calling setup.exe because it expects to run from there.

Honestly, I suggest everyone just follow my own guide in post #16.
The whole SFX solution involves too much copying of files on the target system, when you don't need to keep the files around post-install.
 
garlin said:
There are several problems with your deployment, because they don't follow the exact instructions.

1. Office C2R (Click to Run) is the only way of installing Office on-the-fly (web setup). If you want to deploy an offline image, then the /download step must be made ahead of time on another host. Even if you could run /download right there, that would require a very long wait time for each Windows install.

2. The SFX method tries to work around the problem that Office Setup needs to be in the same folder as the deployment XML. It extracts all files to a single folder, and self-executes setup.exe with a proper command line. If you follow the SFX process, then you simply Add the SFX installer file to Post-Setup, and you're done.

3. If you want to run the Office Setup command yourself, it's better to add a wrapper script which simply changes to the offline folder directory, before calling setup.exe because it expects to run from there.

Honestly, I suggest everyone just follow my own guide in post #16.
The whole SFX solution involves too much copying of files on the target system, when you don't need to keep the files around post-install.
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I did the SFX setup. I followed that step by step.
 
Taosd said:
I'd re-read and follow the office part again. The Office bit is in an SFX format with the /S switch. I don't understand why you have the xml for it separate. That should be inside the sfx
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I left it in there as a left over from the first attempt before I did SFX.
 
If you followed the SFX method, the .EXE file doesn't require any parameters and another configuration XML outside of the SFX isn't needed.
 
garlin said:
If you followed the SFX method, the .EXE file doesn't require any parameters and another configuration XML outside of the SFX isn't needed.
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I have removed the extra XML and parameters from the installer. Going to try it again.
 
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