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