When installing Office on an RDS Server accessed by multiple users, you need to configure the installation for shared computer licensing. To do this, you begin by downloading the Office Deployment Tool. Once you have that downloaded, run the executable. This will provide you with two files; configuration.xml and setup.exe. Edit the configuration.xml file and you should see something similar to what is below:
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<!-- Office 365 client configuration file sample. To be used for Office 365 ProPlus 2016 apps, Office 365 Business 2016 apps, Project Pro for Office 365 and Visio Pro for Office 365. For detailed information regarding configuration options visit: http://aka.ms/ODT. To use the configuration file be sure to remove the comments For Office 365 client apps (verion 2013) you will need to use the 2013 version of the Office Deployment Tool which can be downloaded from http://aka.ms/ODT2013 The following sample allows you to download and install Office 365 ProPlus 2016 apps and Visio Pro for Office 365 directly from the Office CDN using the Current Channel settings --> <Configuration> <Add OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel="Current"> <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail"> <Language ID="en-us" /> </Product> <Product ID="VisioProRetail"> <Language ID="en-us" /> </Product> </Add> <!-- <Updates Enabled="TRUE" Channel="Current" /> --> <!-- <Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" /> --> <!-- <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" /> --> </Configuration> |
This is missing a few key configuration options, such as the “SharedComputerLicensing” which is the primary reason for this post. Also, I’m personally not all that interested in adding Visio to most of my RDS environments, but I am interested in deploying the 64-bit version of Office. See this Office Support page to see all of the configuration options. It should look more like what is below:
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<Configuration> <Add OfficeClientEdition="64" Channel="Current"> <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail"> <Language ID="en-us" /> </Product> </Add> <Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="1" /> <Updates Enabled="TRUE" Channel="Current" /> <Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" /> <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" /> </Configuration> |
Once you have that done, save the configuration.xml file. Shift + right-click somewhere in the file explorer window and select the “Open command window here” option to make your life a little easier. Then run the following two commands:
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setup.exe /download configuration.xml setup.exe /configure configuration.xml |
The second command will take a while as it is actually installing. Once it is done, you are done!
