Office - 32 BIT

OS: Win 7 Enterprise 64bit

I have setup a Silent install from setup.exe /admin where it installs all portions of Office 2013 except for "One Note business Drive" and "Shared Components" - Every thing else is set to "Run all from my Computer"  Screen shot is below

After the install completes everything is listed in the Start Menu EXCEPT "Lync 2013" - Image Below

If I got Program and Features and do "Change" for Office I see Lync is installed.  Picture Below

I have to actually remove Lync through the menu above.  Close the Office utility and then select "Run all from my Computer" and install.  Then Lync shows up in the start menu and works as normal.  this would be fine for one offs but this needs to go on 60 PCs and to me this should be working like normal.  The only weird thing I see in the install directories is in the en-us\admin folder there is no .opal file for Lync but there appears to be one for all other applications and the other languages.  Could that be the problem?

Thanks for any input in this matter.  I am going to try and move one of those .opal files from a different language folder to see what that does but I am unfamiliar with those  :)

Rich

• Edited by richard keel Thursday, August 06, 2015 8:28 PM

I have the latest version of the OCT now and the changes did not help (I believe I already had the latest and greatest but copied the new files over anyway.)

I also tweaked the config.xml file and that did not change anything.  Only thing that happens is it gets to the point of my 3rd picture that is above.  Which shows Lync is already installed.

Any other ideas?

The only reason we are using the OCT for this deployment is the silent portions and we were going to limit what gets installed.  But at this point I just want to have a silent install that gets everything on there so I can move on.  So I have removed the OCT from "updates" folder and edited the config.xml file to the below

<Configuration Product="ProPlus">

 <!-- <Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" /> -->
 
 <!-- <Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office Professional Plus Setup(*).txt" /> -->
 
 <!-- <COMPANYNAME Value="Generic" /> -->
 
 <!-- <INSTALLLOCATION Value="%programfiles%\Microsoft Office" /> -->
 
 <!-- <LIS CACHEACTION="CacheOnly" /> -->
 
 <!-- <LIS SOURCELIST="\\server1\share\Office;\\server2\share\Office" /> -->
 
 <!-- <OptionState Id="OptionID" State="absent" Children="force" /> -->
 
 <!-- <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" /> -->
 
 <!-- <Command Path="%windir%\system32\msiexec.exe" Args="/i \\server\share\my.msi" QuietArg="/q" ChainPosition="after" Execute="install" /> -->

</Configuration>

But when I run setup.exe it is not silent.  I believe it is referencing my config.xml because if I mess around with the above text(on purpose) it says there is something wrong with the config.xml.  Do I need a special cmd line to run?

I also ran from cmd setup.exe /config "path\config.xml" with the same result

• Edited by richard keel 18 hours 14 minutes ago

Maybe I am not going to the right .xml file.  I actually created a new .xml called kmsinstall.xml.  I saved this to c:\apps\office 2013 kms\proplus.ww

I use setup.exe /config "c:\apps\office 2013 kms\proplus.ww\kmsinstall.xml" and tweaked it so it had a different company name, user ID and silent.  but all those things are ignored so I must be doing something wrong...any ideas?

The only reason we are using the OCT for this deployment is the silent portions and we were going to limit what gets installed.  But at this point I just want to have a silent install that gets everything on there so I can move on.  So I have removed the OCT from "updates" folder and edited the config.xml file to the below

<Configuration Product="ProPlus">

 <!-- <Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" /> -->
 
 <!-- <Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office Professional Plus Setup(*).txt" /> -->
 
 <!-- <COMPANYNAME Value="Generic" /> -->
 
 <!-- <INSTALLLOCATION Value="%programfiles%\Microsoft Office" /> -->
 
 <!-- <LIS CACHEACTION="CacheOnly" /> -->
 
 <!-- <LIS SOURCELIST="\\server1\share\Office;\\server2\share\Office" /> -->
 
 <!-- <OptionState Id="OptionID" State="absent" Children="force" /> -->
 
 <!-- <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" /> -->
 
 <!-- <Command Path="%windir%\system32\msiexec.exe" Args="/i \\server\share\my.msi" QuietArg="/q" ChainPosition="after" Execute="install" /> -->

</Configuration>

But when I run setup.exe it is not silent.  I believe it is referencing my config.xml because if I mess around with the above text(on purpose) it says there is something wrong with the config.xml.  Do I need a special cmd line to run?

I also ran from cmd setup.exe /config "path\config.xml" with the same result

• Edited by richard keel Friday, August 07, 2015 1:19 PM

KMSInstall.xml - still not able to get this going. Any ideas?

I figured it out.  Needed to read https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Cc179195.aspx#HowItWorks and remove the "!--<" from the beginning of the line and the "-->" from the end.

This does not fix the initial problem of the OCT but gets me where I need to be.

• Marked as answer by Melon Chen CHNMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 6 hours 32 minutes ago