
Save your newly created configuration.xml file and once done, you'll be ready to to install Office 365 on your RDP server. Now we're going to create a new XML file called configuration.xml in the C:\ODT folder and paste the following code within it: Leaving just the setup.exe file in the folder. So in my example, I'm going to delete the following files: You need to delete all the included XML files and we'll create our own custom one to suit our installation scenario. Now navigate to your C:\ODT folder and you'll notice you'll have 4 files in the folder like as shown below: The files will be extracted to the ODT folder and you'll receive a confirmation dialogue box like the following example: Navigate to your Downloads folder and double click the file. In my case it was called officedeploymenttool_12325-20288.exe, but yours may be different. We can now run the Office Deployment Tool we downloaded to our Downloads folder earlier in this tutorial. This will place your RDS server into install mode and if you're not sure what that means, there is an article I wrote ages ago that explains it in detail here. Now open up an Admin PowerShell instance and type in: change user /install Save the ODT file to your downloads folder and then create a folder on your C:\ drive called ODT. O365 licenses like Business Premium etc, do not come with ProPlus and therefore are restricted to desktop operating systems like Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 etc.įirstly, let's get setup by downloading the Office Deployment Tool here. As far as I'm aware at this point in time, you can only install the Office 365 ProPlus version on an RDP server. Just a quick post today to show you how to install O365 on your Windows 2019 RDP server.
