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If you have an Office 365 for business product you can use the Office Deployment Tool to download and install Office 365 offline. The tool is designed for enterprise environments and runs from the command line, so the steps are more complicated--but they'll still work for installation on a single device.
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Recently I had to install Office 365 on a dozen machines at a location with 512mb Internet. After the nostalgia faded I wrestled through the directions to obtain an Offline installer. In the hope this will save somebody some head scratching, here are the directions.
This will install Office 365 Pro ready for you to activate it with your Office 365 Organisational Account. It’s been tested with an Office 365 Education A3 license. Download the Office Deployment Tool Download and run this tool, then give it a folder where you’d like it to extract the files we’re going to need. If you want both 32 and 64 bit versions of Office, you’re going to have to repeat this whole process again. I pointed this tool at a folder called officeinstaller32 and then at officeinstaller64 You should see a file called setup.exe and one called configuration.xml Download Here:.
Office 2013:. Office 2016: (Thanks to for the update via the ) 2. Edit the XML configuration file This file tells the tool which versions of the software you’d like to download and install. In the same directory where you extracted the installer tool, edit the file called “configuration.xml” and fill it with the following, change the OfficeClientEdition value to 32 for a 32 bit version. This will install Office 365 Pro, automatically activate it (though it’ll still ask for your Office account), not show you the EULA (because it’s quicker to get it installed that way) and enable updates.
If you have a file server which you wish to use, consider using the SourcePath parameter under both. See the Configuration Reference for more details. See the XML Configuration Reference for more details: 3. Do the Download Now open a command prompt in the folder which contains setup.exe and run: setup.exe /download configuration.xml This will download all the files required to install that which is specified in the configuration.xml. All in all, it’s about 1.1GB (0.9GB for 32 bit). All the files get put into a folder called ‘Office’ unless you specified ‘sourcePath’.
Install It You install Office running: setup.exe /configure configuration.xml in the same was as you downloaded it. To speed this up if you’re running on multiple machines, create a file called setup.bat and fill it with the command above. Now, double clicking this file will install Office. The setup should require no interaction until it’s done and ready to activate. Optional Extras If you’re doing this for somebody else, you may want to also visit Office.com in their web browser and Always Enable the addon. When you first use the Office products you will need to activate it by logging in with your username and password.
A note on licences After you activate your suite with your login, if you delete that user the software will tell you to login to check things are OK. I have not found how you can re-activate with a different login. Some of the official pages I used. Talks about whether to get your users to install it themselves through their browser or do an offline install. For those who have decided they want to do an offline install.