[ms office - 2019] Office 2019 Deployment

[Theldron]

Hi all,

 

Hope you are well

 

Trying to get Office 2019 sorted across the schools I work at, and it is driving me bonkers.

 

Why have Microsoft made it so much more work?

 

I have downloaded the Deployment Tool, ran setup /download configuration.xml and it downloads fine. But when I go to install the software I either get an error code: 0-2039 or if I take out the PIDKEY part, nothing happens.

 

Here is my configuration file:

 

 

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[bezzoh]

Theres a space in your source path

[3s-gtech]

https://welsheduit.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/office-2019-scripted-installation-ready-for-mdt/

[Chaniel]

There's a space between "Microsoft" in your sourcepath - is that an error?

 

Have you tested it without the source path and just initiating it on a test machine via the command line?

 

Below is my configuration - the PIDKEY is just the generic volume licence key. I found running it with the display level in "Full" mode made it easiest for testing, I switched that to "None" after I was confident it was working.

 

 

We deploy via SCCM so the XML is stored with the rest of the content (setup.exe and the downloaded data). It's then just called using "setup.exe /configure configuration-Office2019-FullVisibility.xml"

Edited March 2, 2021 by Chaniel

[computer_expert]

I tend to use this tool for creating the xml now. It should give you a valid file that you can use.

 

I let it pull directly from the office CDN rather than messing around with downloading it to a share (that way you get the latest version on install, rather than installing it from a possibly outdated version then office updating itself when it eventually checks for updates)

[Theldron]

Hi yeah the space was an error in the copy and paste, it is fine in my config.

@Chaniel thanks for that, I am trying it with out the source now, from the command line and it is installing. So will try again with source files on a machine after.

 

How do you install via GPO? Was thinking I would just do it through a batch file?

 

Thanks for all your help so far.

[Theldron]

Tried it with a sourcefile in the config and it through a wobbler again. Does it not like the UNC path?

[Chaniel]

Should be fine with a UNC path to files in the config - have you checked permissions on the share? I'd set it so All Domain Users and All Domain Computers have read access.

 

For deployment via GPO, this should help - https://lwnetworks.org/deploy-office-2019-via-gpo/

[3s-gtech]

I initiate mine with a batch file. Took me a good while to get the source file sorted - I persisted with that rather than the CDN so I could roll out in big numbers without hitting the WAN. Due to the way it updates, I may not push it to student PCs at all in the end.

[AliG]

When i started down the Office 2019 route I was making a silly mistake in the batch file with the path and i also added the full path for the configuration file too.

 

I then discovered Microsoft Office 365 Apps instead and switched to that and discovered the OneDrive integration is better. AutoSave!

Edited March 2, 2021 by AliG