How to use Office Deployment Tool (ODT) to install Office

The Office Deployment Tool (ODT) is a command-line tool that help you to download and deploy Click-to-Run versions of Office, such as Microsoft 365 and Office Apps. This article shows you how to download and configure ODT so that you can install Office Apps on a computer or multiple computers.

1. Download ODT

2. Edit configuration file

3. Download Office

4. Install Office

5. Check Office Product IDs

1.Download ODT

•Go to this web page to download ODT

•Download Office Deployment Tool from Official Microsoft Download Center

2. Edit configuration file.

* After extracting ODT, you may have 3 the configuration files, configuration-Office365-x64.xml, configuration-Office354-x86.xml, and configuration-Office2019Enterprice.xml. 

For example, this is for Office 365-x64 bit configuration file

Assuming we downloaded ODT in C:\ODT folder and want to install Office 365 x86 bit, we re-configure the configuration-32bit.xml as shown below.

Note: 1) SourcePath could be a network drive, for example \\servername\odt.

2) OfficeClientEdition=”32″ is 32 bit version.

3) Product ID can be found step 5.

3. Download Office for installing multiple computers without accessing the Internet again.

* Run This command line to download Office 365 to a local computer so that you can install it locally without the Internet.

setup.exe /download configuration-32bit.xml

Note: That will create a Office folder and download installation files.

4. Install Office

* Now run this command line to install office 365.

setup.exe /configure configuration-32bit.xml

Note: if you want to install ODT on multiple computer, you can copy the ODT folder or share it from the network drive. Then run the command line.

Note: You can install Office without download it first. Just run the same command:

setup.exe /configure configuration-32bit.xml

5. Check Office Product IDs

If you have different Office 365vplan and would like to know their Product IDs, please check this web page:

 Product IDs that are supported by the Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-Run – Office 365 | Microsoft Docs

For example, to install Excel 2019 Volume license app on a computer. Modify the configuration file, check the product IDs web site first. The ID for Excel 2019 Volume license is Excel2019Volume

Edit the configuration file by modifying the Product ID=Excel2019Volume. 

Now, run the command:

setup /configure configuration-Excel2019Volume.xml

Please view this step by step video: