Using the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) with the RETAIL (not Office 365 version) of Office 2016

Here’s one I ran into today.  It might be documented somewhere but I just couldn’t find it

 

When targeting software for the Office Deployment Tool almost every version shows this as the Product name

O365ProPlusRetail

 

This is for Office 2013 or Office 2016 from Office 365

 

If you are trying to deploy Office 2013 or 2016 (Click to Run edition) from the MSDN or Volume media change it to

ProPlusRetail

 

The rest of the file should remain the same.  The same goes for your download.xml file.  Update the PID to reflect “ProPlusRetail” or I believe just pull off the O365 reference.  This will download the proper bits for the media and language.   It should also allow you to accept the proper product key.

 

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Sean

The Energized Tech