What's going on guys? It is Bernardo and today is all about deploying Microsoft Office LTSC 2021.
And I'm actually going to do it within my MDT environment, you are able to do the same
kind of steps within your SCCM environment. So let's get right into it. Now the first thing that
we need to do is log into your Microsoft Volume License Server center portal, and locate your
office LTSC standard 2021. or whichever version you have, right? We need to download that Office
deployment tool exe file so just download it. We're going to locate that particular exe file
it dropped in inside the downloads folder for me. I'm going to select it, right click on it
and run it as an administrator. We're going to check here to accept the license and terms.
Click on Continue. We're going to drop it inside the desktop but I'm going to create a folder
called Office 2021 select it and I'm going to click OK. And files are extracted successfully.
Super fast, super simple. Now if you go inside the desktop and double click on that office 2021
folder you're going to see a bunch of XML files and a setup file. This is not the installation
stuff, okay, you got to do a little bit more by default. It gives you a bunch of configuration
XML files that you are able to edit and modify it within your environment but I like to create
a brand new one and to do that we're going to go to the following website. Within this website.
We are going to go to the section where it says create a new configuration. So click on Create.
And right here, follow the steps. The first step pick your flavor. I'm going to pick 64 bit and
then the next step is click on the drop down pick your office suite. For me it was office
Ltsc standard 2021. If you are installing Visio or project or any additional products, make sure
you fill it out here. And then you're going to go down make sure you pick your channel and as well
as which version you want. At the app section you are able to basically exclude which application
you do not want to be deployed by default all the apps within the Office Suite is enabled. So click
on next. We need to pick our language so click on the drop down menu pick your language if you have
any additional ones pick it here, click next. Now for the installation, pick how you want to deploy
Office. Once you're done. Click on Next. Now for the upgrade options this is up to you. I left
everything as the default so I clicked on next. Now for license and activation This is really up
to you. You are able to automatically accept the eula you are able to enter your product key and
also change the way that the product activation behaves during the process. So once you're done
with that you're going to click on Next. From here you're able to provide your company's name and a
description. Once you're done, click on next and for the application preferences, just go over this
stuff and make any modifications that go all the way to the bottom and click on Finish. From here
we are going to click on Export and you have three options. I'm going to pick the first option which
is keep current settings and then click on OK. I'm going to accept the license and terms and give the
file name a name. Now I'm going to leave it as the default as configuration and then click on export.
Once the export is done, we're going to open that folder where that configuration file was
dropped into. For me it was downloaded inside the downloads folder. So I'm actually going to cut
and paste this particular configuration dot XML file into that office 2021 folder that we created
on the desktop. And voila, it's done. Now we're not done yet. Right? That's this is
half the battle. So next thing that we need to do is hold down the shift key and right click on that
office 2021 folder holding the shift key and right clicking on that folder will give me the option to
open PowerShell windows here because that's what I need. And it's gonna basically give me this.
Now we need to run the following command. When we run this following command with the parameter of
forward slash download, and then calling out that configuration file that we just created together
at that website. Once we hit enter what's going to happen is within that office 2021 folder you're
going to see a folder pop up with additional stuff in it. the folder automatically is called Office
give it some time because what's happening is downloading all the installation files that you
need to install Office on your new fresh machine. Now the way that you know it's completely done is
if you go inside the PowerShell command, you're going to see that it's waiting for additional
command. Right. That's great. That basically means it is done downloading. Now it is time to open
up your MDT or SCCM. It doesn't matter which one you're using. I'm just doing MDT right now right
so I am going to select my app folder. I'm going to right click on it. I'm going to click on
new app. I'm going to choose app with source folders. Click on Next, you're going to provide
all the information that you need. Once you're done click next. Now it's time for us to pick
our source directory. So let's click on Browse. And we're going to choose that office 2021 folder
on our desktop. So select it, click OK. Bam. Easy right? So let's click on Next here is going to
specify a name for the directory you are able to change it but I'm gonna leave it as the default.
Click Next here. Now this is where the magic happens. You need to enter the following command.
You're going to do the same thing with SCCM we need to call out that setup file with the
parameter of forward slash configure calling out our configuration file that we created together
within that portal. Make sure that you're using the dot XML extension. Once you're done, click on
next. You're going to get a nice little summary. click Next here. It's going to start importing
all those files within the correct directory. To deploy this application within your MDT,
the same thing is going to happen with your SCCM. Once it's done, you're going to get a confirmation
so just click on Finish. Now within my MDT server, I'm going to select the main MDT deployment
share folder. Right click on it, click on Update deployment share just follow all the commands here
so it's next here next here. And once it's done, I'm going to get this and just click on Finish.
Now within my environment, I normally go inside Windows deployment services. I go inside the
boot images folder and I select my boot image or right click on it and I click on Replace image
and I click on Browse and I pick my boot image. I pick my 64 bit one click on Open.
Click on Next. Click Next here, click next here, click next here, click Finish. Bam. This is
something that I like to do. You guys don't really need to do this. But for me, I like doing this
now last thing I like to do on my WDS server is restart the services. So I'm going to pick my WDS
server name, right click on it, go to all tasks and just click on restart and successfully
restarted the WDS services. Now at the end of the video, you're going to see me create a virtual
machine and get into my MDT environment. I'm going to PXE boot. I'm going to pick that task sequence.
I'm going to basically pick Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 as one of the applications to push.
Once the deployment is done, you're going to see everything live so stay tuned for
that and hopefully you guys enjoy and I'll catch you guys on the next one. Peace out.