MDT Office Deployment Question

[talksr]

Hi there, I have MDT running on my 2012 server.

 

I have set it up to install a Windows 10 1803 install, which works perfectly, other than the languages being in US.

 

I have now just added in Office 2016 with the configurations I wanted.

 

Do I now need to re-install Windows 10 1803 via MDT Deployment Workbench by booting to network and re-installing everything again to get Office to go onto the computers I already imaged before I added Office 2016 to Applications in the Deployment Workbench?

[sted]

a download windows 10 international English iso and use that its UK English not american English

 

b if you want mdt to put office on those pcs yes honestly id just write a batch file and add it as a startup script (something like

 

if exist c:\program files (x86)\microsoft office\16\winword.exe goto end

\\server\share\officexx\setup.exe

 

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[talksr]

a download windows 10 international English iso and use that its UK English not american English

 

b if you want mdt to put office on those pcs yes honestly id just write a batch file and add it as a startup script (something like

 

if exist c:\program files (x86)\microsoft office\16\winword.exe goto end

\\server\share\officexx\setup.exe

 

:end

 

Thanks for the tip. Will take a look and see if I can download this and replace the existing ISO with it.

 

Regards your suggestion of adding the batch file, where would I configure the batch file? Do I need to add it somewhere in MDT?

 

Thanks for your help with this.

[Jamo]

Thanks for the tip. Will take a look and see if I can download this and replace the existing ISO with it.

 

Regards your suggestion of adding the batch file, where would I configure the batch file? Do I need to add it somewhere in MDT?

 

Thanks for your help with this.

 

You can add a application only task in MDT, basically by creating a new task sequence and selecting Custom as the sequence type. Though the usefulness of this, bar testing individual application installs could be questioned as its just as easy to browse to the MDT application share itself and just install the Office binary direct!

[LytchettNM]

If you are are after and UK English definitely download the international English version of Windows 10 along with the version of office you need import all of this into MDT and then create a task sequence to install your OS and install and preconfigure office plus any of the pre-requisites you have in your image and if your running WSUS within your network it can complete windows updates for you as it deploys all of that in one go.

We re-image all of our workstations every year and using MDT we can image over 900 PC’s in around a day and half such a powerful product and free.