One of the hot topic in the enterprises today is the Office 2010 migration. In this blog, I will discuss the steps to migrate to MS Office 2010 using ManageEngine Desktop Central.
- Extracting the EXE
- Customizing the installation
- Adding Package in Desktop Central
- Deploying it to target computers
- Select Start>Run
- Enter %temp%
- Clear all the unused files and folders
- Run the ProfessionalPlus-32.exe. This will extract the required files into the temp directory before installing them. When the extraction is complete, you will see the installation wizard.
- Select Start>Run
- Enter %temp%. You will now find a new folder with the extracted contents of Office 2010.
- Copy all the extracted contents, with the same directory structure, to a different directory, say, c:/software/Office2010.
- Exit the installation wizard
- Download the Office Customization Tool (OCT) from the following URL and install it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=64B837B6-0AA0-4C07-BC34-BEC3990A7956&displaylang=en
Note: When installing the customization tool, it will ask for the location to extract the folders. You need to specify the directory that you have created in Step 1. Usually, there will be three folders that will get extracted for the customization tool, viz. ADM, Admin, and ADMX
- Open a command prompt and change directory to the directory where you have copied the installable.
- Type setup.exe /admin . This opens the office customization tool.
The customization tool helps you to customize your installation like specifying the license/company information, changing the outlook profiles etc.
- Specify the License Information:
You need to select the Display Level as None and select the Suppress Modal check box.
- Specify whether to remove the previous installed versions The default setting is to remove all the older versions.
- If you wish to retain some of the office components you can change by selecting the “Remove the following earlier versions of Microsoft Office programs” and choose the components that you wish to retain
Note: The above setting will retain the previous versions of Excel and Word. In other words, after Office 2010 installation, there will be 2 versions of Microsoft Word and Excel in the computer – the previous version and Word/Excel 2010. - After making the necessary customization, save the customized file as, say, custom.MSP
- The MSP file should also be saved in the same directory.
- Now. create a zip of all the files as below:
- From the Windows Explorer, navigate to the base folder where the installble files are located [ for eg. C:/Software/Office 2010 ]
- Select all the files using Cntrl + A
- Right-click and select 7-Zip –> Add to archive.
- Give an appropriate name for the archive and save it as a .7z file.
Step 3: Adding the Package in Desktop Central
- From the Desktop Central client, select Software Deployment tab –> Add Package button
- Select Package Type as “MSIEXEC/EXE/ISS/Command”
- Specify a name for the application.
- Select Path Type as HTTP Path (URL) .
- Upload the zip file that you created in step 2.
- Click Add More link and upload 7za.exe located in <Desktop_Central_Install_Dir>/Desktop_Central_Server/bin directory.
- Specify the “Installation Command with Switches/Arguments” as relative path [ex. setup.exe /adminfile “custom.MSP” ]
- Select Run the Script before Installing Software under Advanced Options .
- Specify the Script/Software name as 7za.exe x “<filename.7z>” [Ex.7za.exe x “office2010.7z” ] where,
<filename.7z> refers to the zip file name that you created in step 2.
- Click Add Package
Step 4: Deploy to Target Computers
- Select the Package added in step 3 and cilck Install/Uninstall Software
- This creates an Install Software configuration with the package selected.
- Select the target computers.
- Specify the schedule options, if required and click Deploy.
