Completely silent Office 2010 installation - problem

[staun]

Trying to do a completely silent install of Office 2010. But it keeps comming up with the Install/ Customize dialog.

Here is my config.xml file

<Configuration Product="ProPlusr">

	<Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" />

	<Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office Professional Plus Setup(*).txt" />

	<PIDKEY Value="3243423423423424" />

	<Setting Id="AUTO_ACTIVATE" Value="1" />

	<USERNAME Value="myuser name" />

	<COMPANYNAME Value="company name" />

	<DistributionPoint Location="\\server\share\x86\ProPlusr.WW" />

 <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="never" /> 

</Configuration>

I had it working once or twice, but now it fails and asks for install etc..

I cannot use the setup /admin command since this is a different version of office 2010.

Any idea what is wrong?

[cluberti]

Try this, let me know if it works:

<Configuration Product="ProPlus">
        <Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" />
        <Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office Professional Plus Setup(*).txt" />
        <PIDKEY Value="1234567890123456789012345" />
        <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" />
        <Setting Id="AUTO_ACTIVATE" Value="1" />
        <USERNAME Value="User" />
        <COMPANYNAME Value="Demo" />
</Configuration>

I believe you have a typo in your Configuration Product line, and you don't really need the distribution line either unless you're chaining installations.

[radix]

Also, you can add the next lines to your config.xml file to ensure that you will make a full installation of Office Pro Plus (I've saw that without the next lines, will be an 8 MB difference in installation folder, if I remember correctly that size):

<OptionState Id="ACCESSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="EXCELFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="GrooveFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="OneNoteFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="OUTLOOKFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="PPTFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="PubPrimary" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="VisualStudio_PreviewServer_SPD" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="WORDFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="XDOCSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="SHAREDFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
 <OptionState Id="TOOLSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="PROJECTFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="WAC_SPD" State="Local" Children="force" />

Edited October 6, 2011 by radix

[staun]

Hi All,

The Product name is correct - it is a retail version I think, the company bought.

I tried with the settings you both mentioned but still the same - I am still asked to either Install Now or Customize.

BTW the config file is being used- because I can try the customize and can here see that the company name is changed and install options are applied according to the config.xml file and the license dialog is bypassed. The dialog just want me to click Install Now?!?

[radix]

This is my config.xml file (I have it in two locations: ProPlusr.WW folder and in the root folder nearby setup.exe file). Edit the code with your own serial (no other edit is needed).

<Configuration Product="ProPlusr">

    <Display Level="None" CompletionNotice="No" SuppressModal="Yes" NoCancel="Yes" AcceptEula="Yes" />

	<!-- <Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office Professional Plus Setup(*).txt" /> -->

	<PIDKEY Value="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" />

	<!-- <USERNAME Value="Customer" /> -->

	<!-- <COMPANYNAME Value="MyCompany" /> -->

	<!-- <INSTALLLOCATION Value="%programfiles%\Microsoft Office" /> -->

	<!-- <LIS CACHEACTION="CacheOnly" /> -->

	<!-- <LIS SOURCELIST="\\server1\share\Office;\\server2\share\Office" /> -->

	<!-- <DistributionPoint Location="\\server\share\Office" /> -->

    <OptionState Id="ACCESSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="EXCELFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="GrooveFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="OneNoteFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="OUTLOOKFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="PPTFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="PubPrimary" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="VisualStudio_PreviewServer_SPD" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="WORDFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="XDOCSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="SHAREDFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="TOOLSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="PROJECTFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="WAC_SPD" State="Local" Children="force" />

	<!-- <OptionState Id="OptionID" State="absent" Children="force" /> -->

	<!-- <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="IfNeeded" /> -->

	<!-- <Command Path="%windir%\system32\msiexec.exe" Args="/i \\server\share\my.msi" QuietArg="/q" ChainPosition="after" Execute="install" /> -->

</Configuration>