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How to deploy Office 365 with AirWatch MDM

12/3/2017

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Windows 10 version 1703 (Creator's Update) brings the addition of the Office CSP for easy deployment of Office 365. Here's are the steps on how to deploy it to your AirWatch managed Windows 10 system. Thanks to @josuenegron for providing the foundation for this here.
Go to the Office XML creator tool and create your deployment XML. Here's what my XML looks like:
​<Configuration>
  <Add OfficeClientEdition="64" Channel="Broad">
    <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
      <Language ID="en-us" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Project" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Visio" />
    </Product>
  </Add>
  <Updates Enabled="TRUE" Channel="Broad" />
  <Display Level="Full" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
  <Logging Level="Standard" Path="C:\VMware_IT\Logs\Office365logs" />
</Configuration>

 
Now you will need to take this XML and "serialize" it so that it can be read by the Office CSP.  You can go to this free web page to do so. Simply copy/paste your XML in the top box to get the serialized output.
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Create a basic AirWatch profile and add a new "custom settings" section. Take this XML structure and add your serialized office XML in between the "Data" tags.
<Exec> <CmdID>2</CmdID> <Item> <Target> <LocURI>./Vendor/MSFT/Office/Installation/0AA79349-F334-4859-96E8-B4AB43E9FEA0/install</LocURI> </Target> <Meta> <Format xmlns="syncml:metinf">chr</Format> </Meta> <Data>​pasteyourxmlhere</Data> </Item> </Exec>

So with everything added, it will look like this:
​<Exec> <CmdID>2</CmdID> <Item> <Target> <LocURI>./Vendor/MSFT/Office/Installation/0AA79349-F334-4859-96E8-B4AB43E9FEA0/install</LocURI> </Target> <Meta> <Format xmlns="syncml:metinf">chr</Format> </Meta> <Data>&lt;Configuration&gt;
  &lt;Add OfficeClientEdition=&quot;64&quot; Channel=&quot;Broad&quot;&gt;
    &lt;Product ID=&quot;O365ProPlusRetail&quot;&gt;
      &lt;Language ID=&quot;en-us&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;ExcludeApp ID=&quot;Groove&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;ExcludeApp ID=&quot;Project&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;ExcludeApp ID=&quot;Visio&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;/Product&gt;
  &lt;/Add&gt;
  &lt;Updates Enabled=&quot;TRUE&quot; Channel=&quot;Broad&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;Display Level=&quot;Full&quot; AcceptEULA=&quot;TRUE&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;Logging Level=&quot;Standard&quot; Path=&quot;C:\VMware_IT\Logs\Office365logs&quot; /&gt;
&lt;/Configuration&gt;</Data> </Item> </Exec>


Take that and paste it into the custom settings area of your AirWatch profile.
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Click save and publish. After a short time you should see the Office install window popup. I would highly recommend you make the display level "Full" so you can see whats happening as well as specific a log path so you can easily troubleshoot installation issue.
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