How to Install office 365 Plus without ODT

• Right click the file titled “Configuration” and Scroll to “Open With”, from here select Notepad. You should see a screen similar to this:

You can highly customize this configuration.xml file to suite whatever you are trying to do. That includes removing or adding programs from the office install, enabling shared computer activation for say, a terminal server environment, selecting 32/64bit, or even switching languages. We recommend the following editing tool if you would really like to customize it to suite your company’s specific need:

http://officedev.github.io/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/XmlEditor.html

For the sake of the guide, we are proceeding with the Example as if we are installing the Skype for Business 2015 stand-alone client using the most common settings. We will follow this through the rest of the tutorial.

• Hit Control + A and then Delete on your keyboard to make this blank. Then copy and paste the following Example Text exactly as formatted*  (see below for additional info on Product IDs other than Skype for Business given in the example) into the page so it looks like the screenshot below:

<Configuration>

<Add SourcePath="C:\odt\" OfficeClientEdition="32" >

    <Product ID="LyncRetail">

<Language ID="en-us" />

    </Product>

</Add>

<Updates Enabled="TRUE" />

<Display Level="Full" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />

<Logging Path="C:\odt\temp" />

<Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" />

</Configuration>

• Click the File tab at the top and Save. Close out of the ODT window.

*IMPORTANT NOTE, PLEASE READ: The example given above was used for installing Skype for Business 2015 as a standalone product. If you are installing a different product, you can simply erase everything inside the quotation marks at the Product Id=”LyncOnline”  line and replace with whatever you are trying to install. Here is the complete guide of supported products and their corresponding Product IDs that you can replace:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2842297