Office 2016 Advanced Setup

Question

I just started the Office 2016 Setup/Installation on my Windows 10 PC. The installation worked fine and started automatically showing only this dialog:

But there are no additional settings possible! I need to choose which programs I want to install and also add additional tools that are often missing when doing a default installation.

How can I change the Office Installation Settings?

• Choose programs to install
• Add/Remove Office Tools
• (Maybe) Office installation directory

When I check after the installation in the the windows settings, the Office can only be uninstalled - no modifications available:

Solution 1

You can use the Office 2016 Deployment Tool to customize the setup. Edit the Configuration.xml and add new ExcludeApp ID entries for features you don't want to have installed:

<Configuration>
    <Add SourcePath="E:\Office\" OfficeClientEdition="64">
        <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
            <Language ID="en-us" />
            <ExcludeApp ID="Access" />
            <ExcludeApp ID="Excel" />
            <ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
            <ExcludeApp ID="InfoPath" />
            <ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />
            <ExcludeApp ID="OneNote" />
            <ExcludeApp ID="PowerPoint" />
            <ExcludeApp ID="Project" />
            <ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" />
            <ExcludeApp ID="SharePointDesigner" />
            <ExcludeApp ID="Visio" />
        </Product>
    </Add>
</Configuration>

Now run setup.exe /download configuration.xml to only download the requested features and install the customized office with setup.exe /configure configuration.xml

Solution 2

I was originally going to add this as a comment to the excellent answer from @magicandre1981, however I couldn't get the comment to format in a readable state.

Please up vote the comments from @hennes and @MetroSmurf on that answer because those people found this info first and deserve recognition of that.

Once you download the config tool and build your custom-configuration.xml (I suggest renaming it so you know which config you are installing)

To have it work with the MSDN Media:

1. Make sure your config doesn't have a path set.
2. Ensure your product ID is as follows: <Product ID="ProPlusRetail" PIDKEY="xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx">
3. Suggest you also add <Display AcceptEULA="TRUE">
4. Extract the media to a folder (I used Office2016)

5. In Office2016 replace default setup.exe (400KB) with the deployment tool provided setup.exe (4.1MB)

6. Put your custom-configuration.xml in Office2016 as well.

7. From an Administrative command prompt cd to Office2016

8. run setup /configure custom-configfile.xml

9. Profit.

Comments

[Admin]

It also installs the 32-bit version by default, even if the OS is 64-bit.

[Metro Smurf]

There is now an online editor to generate the XML: officedev.github.io/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/…

[magicandre1981]

@MetroSmurf nice find.

[q-codes]

this is ridiculous microsoft :(

[Norio Akagi]

It would be neat to have this pasted in textual format, so that people can easily copy/paste it.

[ganesh]

Plain text version of the image added. Slightly confused about the product ID for office2016 which is spelled as O365ProPlusRetail.

[Kevin]

Hmm, the command "setup.exe /download configuration.xml" just shows the /help list, though both are in the same directory.

[magicandre1981]

@Kevin I Microsoft update the tool and the office installer. What do you see now in the help list? I don't use office so I can't test this.

[fencepost]

I'm not using this directly myself, but I have seen one mention that the sample product ID is incorrect for Office2016 and should be "ProPlusRetail" not "O365ProPlusRetail". Ref: social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/…

[Rowan Hawkins]

@fencepost All of the valid choices for that media are listed out in \office\data\c3rfireflydata.xml with the language choices on the DVD. What version you use is dependent on which type of key you have.

[Jaroslav Záruba]

A convenience pastebin for those who want to install (Office2016 64bit) Excel and Word only: pastebin.com/eW7PgLuX

[Lucas Bustamante]

What worked for me was .\setup.exe /download configuration.xml

[g.pickardou]

this is the way