What's going on guys it is Bernardo from the BTNHD and today is all about installing PDQ
Deploy, as well as deploying office 2019.
So let's get right into it.
Alright so before we even start the installation guide and also showing you guys how to deploy
office 2019 let me let you guys know right now.
I've never used this software before I had a friend that contacted me and he's like hey
Bernardo Can you help me out in creating a office 2019 package with PDQ Deploy I was
like I never used it before.
Why can't you just do it with SCCM, he was like my job can't afford SCCM, they're using
PDQ Deploy Can you help me out.
I don't want understand it so I had to go home in my home lab, and build a nice little
machine using this software, and it's pretty cool software so this is how I got it set
up.
Alright, so the first thing I needed to do is get the exe file the PDQ Deploy.
I think the latest version is 18.4.0.0, and just right click on it, run it as administrator,
it starts preparing to install, I get the nice little setup.
Click on Next.
Accept the license terms and click on Next, I left it as the default, because again, I
don't know how to use it so I just leave everything as the default as of now, and click Next there,
install it's going to start installing and click on finish, it's going to start launching
and then you got a nice little initialize the PDQ Deploy click next here for the license
key you have to you have enterprise and then you have use free mode.
So I say look I'm testing this out.
Let's see how it works out I'm going to do the free mode.
For now, because I installed it within an Active Directory environment because it looks
like PDQ Deploy works great within the Active Directory environment.
So, enter your domain, enter a username and enter a password, and then click on finish,
it's going to load up and then you're good to go.
Once the installation part was done, I was happy it looks like it was up and running
with no issues so it was time for me to create my office 2019 package.
So we need to grab our installation files.
Now as you know Microsoft changed the way that we install office.
It's not double click the exe file, give it some switches some parameters and you're done.
It gets a little complicated so I recommend that you download the office deployment tool,
and then also head to the OCT site and build your XML file.
Now I'm not going to go over how to build an XML file, it is basically an answer sheet
and I'm going to show you a quick example of it, I did do a video on my YouTube channel
and look for it, dealing with the breakdown of how to create it, but getting basically
this, and going here will create the XML file, I'm going to show you an example of it so
don't freak out.
Now within the folder where I dropped all my EXE files, you're going to see a proplus
XML file.
If you open it up.
This is basically an example.
This is not what I use behind the scenes because I got more stuff that I can't show you guys.
But if you go to that site which I'm going to provide the link at the bottom you can
go and create your own, and you should be good to go.
Okay, because you need the XML file, when you're creating your package you need to have
a command line and the command line is the following setup with the parameter of config,
and you're calling out your XML file.
Now, the XML file I called it Pro Plus you could call it whatever you want.
It's up to you.
It's time to actually create the package, and once you load up the console on the toolbar.
There's a button that says, new package click on it, it loads up the package wizard or dialog
box, and you're going to give it a name.
I gave it Microsoft Office 2019 right pretty simple.
And I went to steps.
And within steps I clicked on install now for the install file, click on the three little
dots to browse and I located my setup dot exe file, and I opened it up.
Excellent, the parameters and into the parameters of forward slash configure and calling out
that XML file from my understanding you have to check off include an entire drive, right,
because you have other files that you want to include within the package to deploy successfully.
Once you're done with that you want to go to properties go to options and make sure
within run as you have the correct user account that has access to deploy within the machines
that you want within your network okay for me I left it as deployed as user because the
account that I'm logged into this machine has full access within my network, and that
account is able to install programs with no problem.
Now once you're done with that, click on that big button that say save it saves it, you
close it and there goes our package now once your package is done it's time for us to deploy
to your machines.
Now again, this is my first time using PDQ so I thought I needed a client to installed
to all my machines to push out the package.
But that wasn't the case.
So I actually use one of my machines, which is called vtest dot btnhd.edu which is part
of my domain.
As you can see within Programs and Features, I don't have Microsoft Office installed at
all.
Let's go back inside the console.
And on the right side of the console, there's a big button that says deploy if you click
on it you got two options you can either pick and deploy once or schedule your deployment,
so I clicked on deploy once you get this nice little wizard I typed in my full qualified
domain name of that computer.
I clicked on.
Add computer, it started scanning and it found it got a green checkmark that is a good thing.
Then from here, just hit deploy.
Once you hit deploy you're going to see within the deploy section of this little panel right
here it's going to start saying running at the very bottom where it says target is queued
up eventually the status is going to change to connecting and once it changes is going
to start copying the package over to the machine that you're deploying this, you know, software
into right once the copying is completed, the status is going to change to run.
And then eventually within Programs and Features you're going to see office 2019, you know,
installed.
I was like, Whoa, that's pretty cool I didn't, I didn't need to install any client automatically
PDQ just pushed out the software with no problems so eventually when you go back to your testing
machine, you're going to see within programs that features your office 2019, which is cool.
Now one thing that I found out that within PDQ the status is still going to stay running.
So let the status change to successful, and then you're able to go back into your testing
machine, it's there, click on Start all your programs are there and you're able to click
on one of the programs to launch up which I clicked on word and launches up, and that's
it.
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