There is still an MSI version out there but it is only available for the Volume Licensed customers, which means, if your business was used to buying the much cheaper Product Key Card (PKC) licenses, you are stuck with C2R. However, Microsoft, in their wisdom, decided to offer a brand new deployment methodology for Office 2013, Click-To-Run. You can use a mix of existing switches to update and patch Office installations using Group Policy, scripts, Office Customization Tool (OCT) or the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT).

IT pros have been using the Microsoft Installer (MSI) technology for years to silently install Office programs.

This is fine if it’s your personal copy but what about deploying it to an whole office of PCs? If you are trying to deploy a click-to-run (C2R) version of Office 2013/365 then it’s time to forget everything you knew about deploying office and start from a clean slate!ĭue to Office 2013’s Cloud-based nature it is set up a bit differently to the traditional CD/MSI approach.

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