Custom install gone?

After much trial and error, I got it to work for me.

First I had to run the Office scrub vbs file (available from Fix It here: https://support.office.microsoft.com/en-us/article/Fix-Office-365-Office-2016-or-Office-2013-install-errors-54554bb8-aa94-43c7-a685-408dd9868c0b) to remove all traces of any Office installs on my computer (I'm running Win10x64 Pro & Ent).

Reboot

1. I opened the ISO from MSDN and extracted that to D:\Archive\Office2016\ which created subdirectories off of that of \Office\data

-- Note that if you don't have the iso yet, you can can ask setup to download the required files, just skip ahead to step 3 below---

2. rename D:\Archive\Office2016\setup.exe to whatever the heck you like.
3. I downloaded the Office 2016 Deployment Tool (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49117) and extracted the zip to D:\Archive\Office2016.  This will place setup.exe and configuration.xml into that directory (this is why we renamed setup.exe above).  I edited the XML file and put the following in it (deleting everything else that was in it):

<Configuration>

  <Add SourcePath="D:\Archive\Office2016" OfficeClientEdition="64" >

  <Product ID="proplusretail">

  <Language ID="en-us" />

  <ExcludeApp ID="Access" />

  <ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" />

  <ExcludeApp ID="Grove" />

  <ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />

  <ExcludeApp ID="skypeforbusiness" />

  </Product>

  </Add>

  <Logging Name="OfficeSetup.txt" Path="%temp%" />

</Configuration>

***NOTE that I wasn't sure about the naming convention for Skype for Business/Lync so I put them both in the config file - I still don't know which one is needed but the above config successfully did NOT install Skype for Business***

4. If you don't have the ISO then run the following:

D:\Archive\Office2016\setup.exe /download configuration.xml

that will create the sub directories and download the files necessary for your desired configuration

5. Now, whether this is from the ISO or the downloaded files, run:

D:\Archive\Office2016\setup.exe /configure configuration.xml

bingo, bango, bongo, you've got a customized install.

That thread is at least 50% wrong you can install O13 to a different path and modify what gets installed.

Everytime I think MS does something awesome they ruin with their idiotic decisions. Windows 10, awesome, shoving it down everyone's throats, tricking people into upgrading and major loss of privacy not cool.

Office 2016, somewhat cool, none of the bugs were fixed in the version, but hey let's force components that people don't use down their throat in hopes of people liking them again. 

Now I'm thinking I'm going to go back to Mac and help their growth because MS still doesn't get it. Almost there, but they keep shooting themselves in the foot. Starting to feel like congress... almost had it and then the big screwup always follows.

Please don't clutter up a useful thread with nonsense. This is about Office 2016, not previous versions.

Got me scratching my head on this one.

Maybe it's only available in the vla.