[German]Can we run Microsoft Office as a click-to-run installation parallel to an MSI installation? Microsoft says no to this. But it seems that there is still a trick that works and bot packages may be installed in parallel.
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Microsoft usually offers its Office suite as a click-to-run installation. A web installer then pulls all components of Office and sets them up on a target system. Only works as long as Microsoft offers the download.
However, there is also an Office Professional version for business environments, that can be installed via .msi files. The advantage: You have the installation files for the Office package on a DVD or on your hard disk and can install in one go, without downloading.
However, Microsoft does not allow/support a parallel installation of these two product variants. This causes some administrators to run into problems in business environments. Some admins told me, that Access or Visio and Project 2016 are only available as Click'n'Run via Microsoft Imagine. If a .msi install is used to distribute MS Office, standalone Click'n'Run packages can't be installed on those machines.
German blog reader Conny R. contacted me a couple of days before and drew my attention to a Technet forum post, that addresses this issue. Within the Technet forum thread Office 2016 (MSI installer) volume license incompatible with Visio/Project 2016 from MSDN (Click to run installer) a user wrote.
Our academic institution has a Volume License agreement for Office and the installers we are provided are MSI based. Our department has a Dreamspark subscription which allows us to install Project and Visio 2016 on computers for non-commercial research and teaching purposes from MSDN. The problem is that we are unable to install both pieces of software in lab computers because MSI installer and Click to Run installer cannot coexists on the same machine.
I discovered a workaround while I was wondering how the C2R installer checks if there is Microsoft Office 2016 already installed on the PC. The assumption was that it just asks the "list of installed programms" in the registry (it's the one you can also see via control panel). I googled for a way to hide Office from this list and found this manual: -to-hide-installed-programs-from-programs-and-features/
We were able to finally install our Visio 2016 C2R (DreamSpark) on our Volume License Officer 2016 Pro. We are a Academic Institution same as above with the same setup. It is essential we have both running on the same PC for teaching. Thank you very much!
Tried this which allowed me to install Visio 2019 C2R on computer with Office Pro 2016, but now Outlook will not open. Runs in safe mode, but not normally. I can't attempt an Office repair as Windows detects the C2R Visio and says the install versions are not compatible. Outlook opens fine as soon as I uninstall Visio.
Succesfully installed Click-to-Run Visio to a machine which had msi-versions of Office 2016 Standard and Skype for Business 2015 installed. Everything went great for few days but suddenly Skype stopped working (just crashed during launch). Only way to get Skype working was uninstalling C2R Visio.
hello,
My university has a license server for Office 2016 and i downloaded visio from microsoft student program. I have the same problem.
Here on my system I cant find Office16.PROPLUS (x64) thing in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
Instead i see only one thing "whatsapp" in this folder. Plz help
Excellent! Worked great for us (schoolhouse) with Visio 2016 and Office 2016. But Visio C2R doesn't update with WSUS at ALL now! We're offline. Does Visio 2016 ONLY update from the internet?! WE DON'T ALL HAVE INTERNET!
I tried installing Access Volume License (windows installer) on a machine with Office 2019 home & business (click-to-run) and "systemcomponent=1" doesn't work. I get a message saying that I must uninstall "empty" to install Access.
Can anyone successfully confirm if they are able to still receive updates on both applications or even install other Microsoft products down the line without having issues? I.E. you installed Office 2016 MSI and Project with C2R using the guidance here and later decide to also install Visio, did it work smoothly or did it uninstall everything, and separately, when the MSI product and the C2R product ran office or windows updates, it actually worked.
Indeed this works. I have Office 2016 Pro Plus (perpetual msi version) installed, and ran into the click to run error when I tried to install Visio 2016 Pro yesterday. I had tried downloading ISO/IMG files from a couple of the discount keycode sites that publish the downloads, but kept getting the error.
I have worked on couple of office 365 proplus rollout projects. In all projects ,one of the critical task is to manage MSI based deployments for visio/project 2016 on computer that runs office 365 proplus (Click-to-Run).
Click-to-Run is the technology used to install Office 365 proplus subscription based .Windows Installer technology (MSI) was used to install the volume license editions of older versions of Office 2016 and older, such as Microsoft Office Professional Plus ,Microsoft Office Standard,visio and project.
Until now ( if you are not on office 365) ,we usually deploy volume licensed versions of Project 2016 and Visio 2016 by using the Windows Installer (MSI) installation technology. But that won't work if you're trying to install volume licensed versions of Project 2016 and Visio 2016 on the same computer that has Office 365 ProPlus. That's because Office 365 ProPlus uses Click-to-Run as its installation technology, and in this case, having MSI and Click-to-Run installations on the same computer isn't supported.
Two main things that determine whether Office, Project, and Visio can be installed together on the same computer are the version of the product and the installation technology used to install the product.
The following rules governs whether an installation scenario is supported or not. This also applies to standalone applications like Access, Visio, Project, Skype for Business, or OneDrive for Business.
Example: If a computer has office 365 proplus ,then you cannot install any MSI version of 2016 on the same computer but you can install MSI version of 2013 and lower versions of visio/project,office et because they share different versions.
With the introduction of C2R ,MSI and its versions ,how do you deploy visio/project 2016 on computer that has office 365 proplus (C2R) installed and also get it activated using KMS/MAK volume license?
The Office Deployment Tool uses Click-to-Run to do the installation, instead of using Windows Installer (MSI). But, Project and Visio are still activated by volume activation methods, such as Key Management Service (KMS) or Multiple Activation Key (MAK).
This generic key given above works only with KMS.If you do not have KMS ,you can login to volume license portal /vendor portal that you get license keys from and get the MAK key for product .So when you install visio/project ,it get auto activate for your users (device activation).
Read through the Supported scenarios for installing different versions of Office, Project, and Visio on the same computer -us/DeployOffice/install-different-office-visio-and-project-versions-on-the-same-computer
Great write up. I'm trying to explain Click to run vs MSI to some project co-workers and why I am having to uninstall Visio and Project during our c2r deployment for our new O365 subscription. (We used MAK keys and old MSI methods for prior Visio and Project) This helped me explain it. ?
Very help .. i been always looking for recent working explanation. i could able to install 32bit MS Project 2016 but i get stuck at 64bit version, could you please upload 64bit configuration file, would be grateful for you help.
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