Microsoft Office 2016 is exceptional compared to other versions as it has a build-in tool that ensures easy creation of a deployment package which allows all installations to have the same settings.

MS Office 2016 allows You to choose what Office application you will provide your users with and what applications you don’t want them to have eg. Word and Access will be installed, but Excel will not.

You can also remove older versions of office in the installation process. The tool for doing all this is still called Microsoft Office Customization Tool. The Ms Office customization tool is built in to volume license edition of the Office 2016 installer.

In the folder structure for Office 2016, there is a folder named Admin which contains all the bits for the Office Customize Tool.

HOW TO CUSTOMIZE INSTALLATION OF MICROSOFT OFFICE 2016?

• First of all start the installer with the parameter /admin like this: setup.exe /admin

 

• You will then see the Office Customization Tool startup and you can begin to customize what setting you want your users to have when installing Office 2016 on their computers.

 

• After configuring the settings you want, you go to File->Save As and save your configuration to an MSP file.

 

• Now that the configuration is ready, you can have your user installing/upgrading Office on their own or you can deploy Office 2016 using e.g. SCCM or whatever tool you use for deploying software in your organization.