Microsoft distributes Office 2016 to consumers and Office 365 users using Click-To-Run, a streaming and virtualization technology that’s based on App-V.

If we need to control customise the Office installation process let’s see what steps should be done (In this case we need to distribute Office from an intranet location):

Download the Office Deployment Tool (Once you’ve downloaded the deployment tool, run it to extract the files to your PC)

Create/Edit a Custom Configuration File configuration.xml. Open configuration.xml using your lovely text editor, and add the source path for the installation files (remember to use FQDN format ;)):

We can add one or more Product ID elements in the configuration file. Here is a list of the supported Product IDs:

• ProPlusRetail
• ProfessionalRetail
• HomeStudentRetail
• HomeBusinessRetail
• O365ProPlusRetail
• O365HomePremRetail
• O365BusinessRetail
• O365SmallBusPremRetail
• VisioProRetail
• ProjectProRetail
• SPDRetail

If we want to exclude applications from the installation, we have to use the ExcludeApp ID element as many times as needed:

• Access
• Excel
• Groove
• InfoPath
• Lync
• OneNote
• Outlook
• PowerPoint
• Project
• Publisher
• SharePointDesigner
• Visio
• Word

Download Setup Files. Place setup.exe and configuration.xml into the network location we will use for distribution. Run the following command line:

setup.exe /download configuration.xml

Install Customized Office 2016 Click-to-Run:

setup.exe /configure configuration.xml

P.S.
I think you will be OK to do some adjustments if you would like to distribute customised Office through SCCM. If not, send me a message 😉