Customize Office 2013 from SCCM

I am currently deploying Office 2013 via SCCM and installing Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access and I am currently at 100% compliance with this.  We are looking to go to Exchange and will need Outlook installed on our clients, I know I can manually run from command line:  msiexec /p \\{path to my msp file with outlook}\Outlook.msp and it works flawlessly.  I want to be able to do this from sccm because of our limited IT staff, and without having to touch 900 machines. 

When I try to add a new application and manually specify the application information and select Script Installer as the deployment type, it asks for the installation program and all I see is setup.exe in the content path where I have my Office 2013 installation files.

I tried to add an application to point to MSIEXEC.EXE and append the /p and path but that deployment failed.

Any suggestions on how to deploy a MSP file to customize office after it has been installed?

June 17th, 2015 9:13am

See here for installing Office 2013 with ConfigMgr. You would need to configure OCT to install Outlook only

http://www.gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.ie/2013/03/sccm-2012-sp1-step-by-step-guide-part_9368.html

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June 17th, 2015 10:23am

Gerry,

I have already installed Office 2013 via SCCM and because we weren't ready to go to Exchange when I pushed it, I ran the OCT and only installed Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint and that is what all of our computers have on them right now.  I need to add Outlook to those computers now and need to be able to push it.  I can't run setup.exe /adminfile {MSP file} because the /adminfile switch will only run when you are installing office for the first time.  I can however manually run msiexec /p {path to MSP} and it will work locally, but I'm not sure how to implement that into SCCM.

Leigh

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June 17th, 2015 11:41am

You can use a config.xml to add additional components, see for more information: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179195.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
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June 17th, 2015 1:31pm

It appears that I answered my own question 2 years ago.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bf934f36-469c-4c0d-ace3-1696bd548b90/adding-outlook-2007-to-office-2007-via-sccm-2012?forum=configmanagergeneral

Our agency is about to migrate off of Groupwise (hallelujah!) and we are going to be using Outlook as our client.  Some of our outdated computer images had just Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint being installed instead of the entire Office 2007 suite, therefore I am trying to figure out the best way to get Outlook on those computers.  I have used the OCT and created a OUTLOOK.MSP file that should just install Outlook and saved it to my local computer for testing purposes for now.  When I create the Application in SCCM and put in some detection methods and deploy to my test group (6 machines total, 3 already have Outlook installed) I get 3 Success (already compliant), 1 In Progress (Waiting for content) and 2 Error (1 Deployment failed and 1 Failed to locate content)  All of the users of these machines are domain admin's and have full R/W/X on the share folder, I have also successfully installed previous packages not applications from this location to the same computers).  The deployment has been running for more than 24 hours.

This is how I setup the application:   Software Library - Create Application - Manually specify information - name it MS Outlook 2007 and fill-in other data here but don't check "Allow this application to be installed from the Install Application tast sequence action instead of deploying it manually"  -  Application Catelog I take all defaults but giving it the Outlook icon.  Add Deployment Type - Script Installer (Native) - name it MS Outlook and English (US) is the Language.  Content location -\\sccm2012\INSTALLS\Office2007\  - Not allowing the clients to share the content - Installation program I point to the same location and select OUTLOOK.MSP file and leave everything else blank.  Add Detection Method Clauses to reflect 32 and 64 bit installations of Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 -  Install for system Whether or not a user is logged on and visibility is Hidden.  Max run time is 20 minutes, est install time 5 minutes.  No requirements and no dependencies. 

Am I doing this correctly?  Why would it keep failing on 3 of those computers?  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Leigh

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Ok I think I got it licked.  First off, there was a problem with the Share rights.  We had NTFS rights set on the folder but the Share rights weren't set correctly.  Once that was resolved I still had problems getting the application to deploy.  It had to be something in my clauses from what I researched, I initially had 4 clauses setup all saying %Program files%\Microsoft Office\Office12 and the file being Outlook.exe.   Then I changed it to Office14 and Outlook.exe then did the same for %Program Files(x86)%.  Once I removed all of those and just left c:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office12 - Outlook.exe the deployment started being pushed.  I still had a few hiccups but I think it was because of my computer running Outlook 2010 not 2007 (hince Office14 folder) and the other test machine might just have needed rebooting after sucessfully installing and removing Outlook manually with the .MSP files created through the OCT.

I was able to sucessfully push and install to 1 computer that never had Outlook installed so I am calling that a success, now I am pushing another .MSP file that doesn't include Outlook because we aren't ready to go there yet.

Thanks Torsten for your help on here and also some of your blogs that I found via Google.


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