Upgrading to Office 2016

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Hi,We are currently having Office 365 with the 2013 version of Office.We are planning to upgrade to Office 2016. When we try to install Office 2016 it fails with the below error: Upgrade failed with error code 17004Uninstalling the 2013 version and then installing the 2016 version works fine.We would like to configure a single deployment to uninstall 2013 version and install 2016 version via SCCM.Any ideas implementing the above.

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The Microsoft Office customization tool will allow you not only to install 2016 silently but also remove all previous versions before installing.  We had some issues with MAK activation but found an easy fix for it without much trouble.  Other than that, the customization tool worked wonders.  Run the setup.exe with an /admin switch to get to the configuration tool.

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I had to removeOffice (2010), then run the O365 setup.exe with a config XML To remove the entire office 2010 x86 suite:"%~dp0\setup.exe" /config "%~dp0\Uninstall.xml"/Uninstall ProPlus Uninstall.xml:- Command line to install O365ProPlus:setup /configure DesktopInst3.xml XML file:- - -

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We use the configuration tool to create an MSP with our custom settings that remove 2013 but also run the 2013 uninstaller first. We found that when we moved from 2010 to 2013 the 2013 installer did not remove all of the 2010 components. Running the uninstaller resolved that issue. Here is our current script that does this.

if exist "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE15\Office Setup Controller\" GOTO 64BIT
copy 2013uninstall.xml "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE15\Office Setup Controller\2013uninstall.xml"
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE15\Office Setup Controller\setup.exe" /uninstall PROPLUS /dll OSETUP.DLL /config 2013uninstall.xml
GOTO INSTALL
:64BIT
copy 2013uninstall.xml "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE15\Office Setup Controller\2013uninstall.xml"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE15\Office Setup Controller\setup.exe" /uninstall PROPLUS /dll OSETUP.DLL /config 2013uninstall.xml
GOTO INSTALL
:INSTALL
setup.exe /adminfile FullInstallRemovePrevious.msp

The uninstall.xml file looks like this:

<Configuration Product="ProPlus">
<Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" /> 
<Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" />
</Configuration>

Everything is zipped up into an archive and uploaded to the K1000. The nice thing about this method is that we actually include a few different MSP and script files for different types of installations, silent vs quiet and keep 2013 vs remove. We can then create several managed installs that call the appropriate script for the situation.

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Pretty much answered your own question?Why don't you create a Application Deployment to remove Office 2013.Then create a Application Deployment for Office 2016 with the criteria that Office 2013 must not be on the machine?Or you can do it the ugly way - not recommended. So shove all of the above into one Application Deployment type, so you have a script that you run that removes and then installs Office.

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