Office Tool Plus

About Office Tool Plus

This is the tool people use when the vendor installer does not give enough control. It builds a deployment configuration through a proper interface: products, release channel, architecture, interface languages, proofing tools and the exact application list, all chosen before anything downloads, and then hands that configuration to the official delivery engine so the resulting installation is genuine rather than repacked.

The deployment tab is where most of the work happens. Applications can be excluded individually, several products can be installed side by side where that is supported, and an existing installation can be modified afterwards to add or remove a single application without a full reinstall. The generated configuration can also be exported as a file for reuse across a fleet of machines.

The tools tab handles everything around the installation. It removes broken or partial installations completely, repairs an installation in place, clears cached credentials, switches the release channel of an existing install and reports the current state in plain language. Most of the failures people hit with a suite installation are fixed by one of these options.

It runs either portable or installed, works through a proxy, and can install entirely offline from a package downloaded earlier. On a slow or metered line the usual approach is to download the package once on a fast connection and then deploy it repeatedly from local storage.

What is included in this build

• Full deployment configuration builder covering products, channel, architecture and languages
• Per application selection with the ability to exclude individual applications
• Modify an existing installation to add or remove applications without a reinstall
• Export the configuration as a file for reuse across many machines
• Complete removal of broken or partial installations, plus in-place repair
• Release channel switching on an existing installation
• Offline deployment from a package downloaded earlier
• Portable and installed builds, both with proxy support

Changed in version 11.6.6.0

• Channel list updated to match the current vendor release tracks
• Improved removal routine for installations left broken by a failed upgrade
• Faster configuration generation on machines with many language packs
• Better progress and error reporting during deployment
• Additional interface languages added

Installation walkthrough

These steps assume a clean machine. If a previous release of the same application is present, deal with that first, since an overlapping install is the most common cause of a setup that stops halfway.

1. Extract the archive to a local folder and add a protection exclusion for it.
2. Run the executable as administrator, since deployment needs elevated rights.
3. Use the removal option first if a previous installation is present or broken, then reboot.
4. Build the configuration on the deployment tab before pressing the install action.
5. Keep the downloaded package afterwards if the same configuration will be used on other machines.

System requirements and file details

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