Specify your enterprise key (usually a MAK key) in the PIDKEY=”” parameter

- you can specify the components of your Office package (ProPlus2019Volume, Standard2019Volume, ProjectPro2019Volume, ProjectStd2019Volume, VisioPro2019Volume, VisioStd2019Volume) to be installed.

This parameter is commented out, but before you deploy Office 2019, you must enable it to prevent deployment errors

-> - prior to Office 2019 installation, remove all previous Office versions installed through Windows MSI.

To install the German version, you must specify de-de here

Channel='PerpetualVL2019 – installation of Office 2019 with Volume License.

OfficeClientEdition='64' – install the 64-bit version of Office 2019.

Let’s look at configuration-Office2019Enterprise.xml file that contains the configuration example of Office 2019 Enterprise for the Volume License channel. In this case, we do not need the Office 365 configuration files ( What’s the difference between Office 365 and Office 2016/2019?). The setup.exe is used to download distribution files and run the Office package installation on a computer. To deploy Office 2019 using Click-to-Run, you will need a special tool: Microsoft Office Deployment Tool – ODT (it is also used to deploy Office 365 ProPlus).ĭownload the Microsoft Office Deployment Tool ( ), run the officedeploymenttool_12325-20288.exe and extract the contents of Office Click-to-Run Administrator Tool to a local folder on your computer.Īs you can see, there are three sample XML files in the folder: configuration-Office365-圆4.xml, configuration-Office365-x86.xml and configuration-Office2019Enterprise.xml.

The Office 2019 package is always installed on the system drive.īefore deploying Office 2019, get the Office product key from your account on the VLSC website (it may be a KMS host key or a MAK).

Office Deployment Tool (ODT) is now used to configure Office 2019 installation settings instead of the Office Customization Tool (OCT).

You cannot use Office 2019 together with any of the previous Office versions or any of Office 365 apps (for example, you won’t be able to install Skype for Business Click to Run from Office 365).

Office 2019 installer is based on Click-to-Run ( C2R) technology instead of the traditional MSI installer like the previous Office versions.

You can install Office 2019 only on Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016/2019.

Here are the main Office 2019 features you should know prior to deploying it in your company:

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