Deploy Office 2013 Sp1 via Group Policy to all domain joined machines

Lets see how to deploy Microsoft Office 2013 sp1 via group policy to all desktop machines

My Organizational Unit name – GPDESK

All machines are Windows 7 , As per Microsoft recommendations using Microsoft office 32 bit.

Step1 –

Create a folder in Domain Controller or Exchange Server –

Copy the Office2013Sp1 Setup files

Make sure Admin folder exists (If admin folder doesn’t exist – Download the ISO from Volume licensing site or Download admin folder manually)

Create a folder called logfiles in Site C:\Office2013Sp1

Now share the folder with Authenticated users –

Verified admin folder exists – Created log files folder

Step 2 –

Configuring the Config file – Edit with notepad

Locate — C:\office2013sp1\proplus.ww

Add below three lines in the Config file  –

<Display Level=”none” CompletionNotice=”no” SuppressModal=”yes” AcceptEula=”yes” />

<USERNAME Value=”Customer” />
<COMPANYNAME Value=”MyCompany” />

Creating a .MSP File

Start – run – C:\Office2013Sp1\setup.exe /Admin

Click ok

Choose Licensing and user interface – Enter the product key.

Choose “I accept the terms in the license agreement”

Choose Display level – none

Choose Suppress model

To activate automatically – Modify Setup properties –

Click ADD

Name – AUTO_ACTIVATE

Value – 1

(Skipping this step doesn’t harm anything . Office wont activated automatically)

Remove any unwanted components. in Set feature installation states

Saving the .msp file

File – Save the .msp file to – C:\Office2013sp1.msp

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To verify all is ok as of now – Login to a test desktop machine – Open command prompt – Run as administrator

\\C-dc01\office2013sp1\setup.exe /config \\c-dc01\office2013sp1\proplus.ww\config.xml

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If installation happens silently without any issues- So far – all good.

We would see how to apply this through group policy to all the machines.

Step 3 –

Applying Administrative template files

Office 2013 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35554

Download the Group policy files on above link , extract them –

Copy the below .admx files from the extracted folder

paste in below location in domain controller –

%systemroot%\policydefinitions

Easily locate- – Start-  run – %systemroot%\policydefinitions

Next  – En-us folder from extracted files, Copy all .adml files paste to below location.

Start run – %systemroot%\policydefinitions\en-us

To locate en-US folder –

Start—Run — %systemroot%\policydefinitions\en-US

Creating a group policy –

Right click on the OU – Create a GPO in this domain

Enter the Group policy name —

Deploy Office 2013

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In my CASE it worked without disabling UAC – Please Ignore this step initially.

In — Computer Configuration – Windows Settings – Security settings – Security options –

Scroll down to the last – Edit the three policies

UAC – Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators – Elevate without prompting

UAC – Detect application installation and prompt for elevation – Disabled

UAC – Run all administrators in Admin Approval mode -Disabled

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In — Computer Configuration – Windows Settings – Scripts – Startup

Download the .bat file – Extract from .zip

Click ADD –

Choose browse – And Copy the .bat file inside the folder.

Click ok

Click apply ok.

— In the .bat file – edit in notepad and update the below to the right location

After logon in all the desktop – Microsoft Office 2013 is Installed