Silent Network Installation of Office 2010 and Lync
Configure a silent installation of Office 2010 and Office 365 Office ProfessionalNote To create the source files from the Compressed Sing...

Configure a silent installation of Office 2010 (and Office 365 Office Professional)
Note ā To create the source files from the Compressed, Single MicrosoftOffice.exe file that is downloaded in Office 365, you must extract using the procedure documentedĀ Customizing the Office Professional Plus deployment.
You can configure a silent installation of Microsoft Office 2010 by using the Config.xml file. The Config.xml file is used to configure installation tasks and is usedĀ onlyĀ when you run Setup. It is not installed or cached on usersā computers. You can edit the Config.xml file to customize an installation.
By default, the Config.xml file that is stored in the core product folder,Ā core_product_folder_name.WW, directs Setup to install that product. For example, if ProPlus.WW is the folder name, the Config.xml file in the ProPlus.WW folder installs Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010.
Modify the Config.xml file to configure a silent installation
To configure aĀ silent installationĀ (unattended installation) of an Office 2010 product that requires no user interaction, modify the Config.xml file for the product that you are installing and set theĀ DisplayĀ elementāsĀ LevelĀ attribute to**ānoneā**Ā (Display Level=ānoneā), and then save the Config.xml file, as shown in the following procedure. TheDisplayĀ element specifies the level of user interface that Setup displays to users.
To specify silent installation options in Config.xml
- Open the Config.xml file for the Office product (such as Office Professional Plus 2010) that you are installing by using a text editor tool, such as Notepad.
- Locate the line that contains theĀ DisplayĀ element, as shown in the following example:
<!-Display Level=āfullā CompletionNotice=āyesā SuppressModal=ānoā AcceptEula=ānoā /> ā>
NaN. Modify theĀ DisplayĀ element entry with the silent options that you want to use. Make sure that you remove the comment delimiters, ā<!āā and āāā. For example, use the following syntax:
Display Level=ānoneā CompletionNotice=ānoā SuppressModal=āyesā AcceptEula=āyesā
These options will direct Setup to run silently, prevent prompting users to enter information, and prevent the installation from waiting for any user interaction. For more information about the syntax and Config.xml, seeDisplayĀ element inĀ Config.xml file in Office 20101.
NaN. Save the Config.xml file.
Make sure that no Office applications are running when you install Office 2010. For example, to install Office Professional Plus 2010 after you modify the Config.xml file to specify silent installation options, use the following command:
serversharesetup.exe /config servershareProPlus.WWconfig.xml
Where:
servershareĀ is the path of the Office Professional Plus 2010 source files.
/configĀ is a Setup command-line option that specifies the location of the Config.xml file. SeeĀ Setup command-line options for Office 20102.
servershareProPlus.WWconfig.xmlĀ is the location of your modified Config.xml file for Office Professional Plus 2010.
Note:
If you use the Config.xml file to set silent installation options as in the previous example, you will also want to use the Office Customization Tool (OCT) to create a Setup customization file (.msp file) to configure additional installation customizations. For example, you can use the OCT to specify previous versions of Microsoft Office applications to keep or remove. You can also set feature installation states by using the OCT to change the default way in which Office features are installed. For a complete description of the areas that you can configure by using the OCT, seeĀ Office Customization Tool in Office 20103. The OCT is available with Volume Licensing editions of Office 2010 (and the 2007 Office system). To determine whether your Office 2010 installation is a Volume Licensing edition, check the Office 2010 installation disk to see whether it contains a folder named Admin. If the Admin folder exists, the disk is a Volume Licensing edition. If the Admin folder does not exist, the disk is a retail edition.You can also set silent installation options by using the OCT. For more information, see theĀ Licensing and user interface4Ā section inĀ Office Customization Tool in Office 20103. (TheĀ LevelĀ attribute of theĀ DisplayĀ element in the Config.xml file is equivalent to theĀ Display LevelĀ option in the OCT). In enterprise deployments, we recommend that you set theĀ Display LevelĀ toĀ NoneĀ if using the OCT to ensure that Setup runs silently, to prevent prompting users to enter information, and to prevent the installation from waiting for any user interaction, including when files are being used. Setting theĀ Display LevelĀ toĀ NoneĀ assumes that theĀ Suppress modalĀ andĀ Completion noticeoptions are silenced and that theĀ I accept the terms in the License AgreementĀ check box is selected. As noted previously, administrators must also make sure that no Office applications are running during an installation of Office 2010.
Read the whole article @Ā http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg998766.aspx#section4
PS -Ā For Lync: āLyncSetup.exe /Install /Silentā will perform a silent install.
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