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Office 2021 choose installation directory

Leon_Blum -  
 Leon_Blum -

Hello,

I'm posting my question here because it concerns the installation rather than the software itself, and I am using Office 2021 Pro Plus, which utilizes network licenses.

How do I choose the directory where I want to install Office 2021?

It installs wherever it wants and does not allow me to choose, but is there a solution with small installation aid tools, such as: Office_Tool_with_runtime_v9.0.3.7?

Thank you for the attention you will give me.

EDIT by moderation:The programming forum is for writing software, not for installing existing software.

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Leon_Blum
 

Moderation: “MODERATION EDIT: The programming forum is concerned with software coding, not the installation of existing software”

To install Office 2021 Pro Plus with specifications, you need to program an XML file, that's why I wasn’t sure where to put it, so I placed it in Programming and not Office, I even hesitated with: Network.

Regards.
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brucine Posted messages 24501 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   4 115
 

Hello,

Custom deployment or not, this situation has been caused since at least Office 2016 by Office Click To Run, which is a creation that no one knows what it is for but without which Office does not start and which must necessarily reside on the system drive (on the contrary, we have no problem installing, for example, Office 2007 wherever we want).

Some suggest moving the Program folders in the registry, which I find absurd: aside from Office, there may be good reasons to keep other programs in one or the other of the default program folders.

The trick of using mklink to create a symbolic link of these folders to their new location seems better to me, but I haven't tested it:

https://superuser.com/questions/1034222/windows-10-change-office-2016-installation-directory
 

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Leon_Blum > brucine Posted messages 24501 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention  
 

Hello Brucine,


Thank you for providing a response.


Some talk about an XML configuration file to place in the same directory as the Microsoft Office installer, using Office Tool Plus, a small free software that can be found on GitHub; and that in this file we could indicate the path where we would like to install Office.


I have this small free software, but I must admit that I do not understand how to do it.


I can almost program everything with this very simple software, making sure that Outlook, OneDrive, Access, Teams, Lync do not get installed, since we can prevent the installation of certain Microsoft Office components; I can set the license to install itself, but cannot designate the paths.


I can even create an ISO or installation file for Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2021 without Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, Lync, Access; but still cannot designate the path of the directory where I want to install Office.


I think this must be handled in the installation settings section, since we are given two paths: - download path - source path; but I am not competent enough to understand.

https://github.com/YerongAI/Office-Tool/releases


Best regards.

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brucine Posted messages 24501 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   4 115 > Leon_Blum
 

Hello,

As mentioned, any solution other than cheating with a symbolic link is questionable and relies on the fact that the Office Click To Run path is not hardcoded (the rest doesn’t seem to be an issue; for example, when installing 2007 "elsewhere," all the "goodies," Common Files, and other shared Microsoft folders remain on the system partition).

I am no longer competent in deployment matters; I haven't done this for ages and not for Office but for Windows (2000, XP, BartPE).

We will find here a procedure and syntax using not Office Tool but Office Deployment Tool (Microsoft) illustrated here for Office 2016 after having properly scorned an ad for a ... "utility"; the XML syntax is probably similar if not identical between the two utilities.

https://windowsreport.com/change-office-2016-download-location/

I don't know if the ODT version evolves; just in case, Microsoft has a download link here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/ltsc2021/deploy

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Leon_Blum > brucine Posted messages 24501 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention  
 

Hello brucine,


Sorry, it's not working; it's not a big deal either, I admit that I don't appreciate Microsoft's intrusion that decides for me, without asking for my opinion.


I like my Windows to be organized the way I want it.


The good thing about the config.xml file is at least that I've managed to ensure that it never installs:
- Access
- Lync
- OneDrive
- Team
- OutLook
- And other crap
-
That's already an achievement for me


Thank you.

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