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The bad news was that downloading the Office 365 applications installer from my Office 365 subscription would \nnot work, since Windows Server 2008 had fallen out of support some time ago.\n\nLuckily, Microsoft can help you :)\n\n# Office Deployment Tool\n\nWelcome [ODT](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49117) (Office Deployment Tool). This utility\nhelps us download and install any version of Office 365 that has been published. Although its built to help automate \nOffice 365 installations, if correctly instructed, we can control the exact version of Office applications that it \ninstalls. See an overview of its functionality [here](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-office-deployment-tool).\n\nAll we need to do is to [download ODT](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49117), extract it to \na directory (`c:\\ODT` in this article), and write a configuration file:\n\n# Configuring ODT\n\nODT is controlled with an XML file. Create a file `office.xml` in `c:\\ODT\\`:\n\n```\n\u003cConfiguration\u003e\n  \u003cAdd Version=\"16.0.7571.2109\" OfficeClientEdition=\"64\"\u003e\n    \u003cProduct ID=\"O365BusinessRetail\"\u003e\n      \u003cLanguage ID=\"en-us\" /\u003e\n    \u003c/Product\u003e\n  \u003c/Add\u003e  \n\u003c/Configuration\u003e\n```\n\nSet the `Version` attribute according to the version you want installed.\nOffice 365 applications seem to be version `16.0`, followed by a *build number* (which you can find on the \n[version history page](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/officeupdates/update-history-microsoft365-apps-by-date).\nNote also that this config defaults to the *Current* channel. Take a look at `Channel` attribute, which is documented in\nthe [configuration options of ODT](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/office-deployment-tool-configuration-options).\n\n# Download and install\n\nODT has different execution modes for preparing or executing different phases of an Office 365 automatic installation. First \nstep is to download the Office installer.\n\nOpen a `cmd.exe` and `cd c:\\ODT`:\n\n```\nsetup.exe /download office.xml\n```\n\nYou will see that in `C:\\ODT\\` that version of Office has been downloaded. Now to install it:\n\n```\nsetup.exe /configure office.xml\n```\n\nOnce the installation finishes, the configured build of Office 365 will be available\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpplu%2Foffice-365-installation","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fpplu%2Foffice-365-installation","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpplu%2Foffice-365-installation/lists"}