Need help with Snapin

[Omar.rodriguez]

I’m having the hardest time trying to create a snapin for office 2013… I tried following the video linked in the wiki this one and it was so outdated I couldn’t follow it at all as the programs (for example SFX maker) have changed so much over time. Do we have any updated tutorials on how to create snapins for FOG?

Any help would be truly appreciated.

[Wayne Workman]

This might help you some - I’ve been working on it. Right now it’s quite simple and could be expanded greatly but it might get you started.

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Snapin_Examples

[Omar.rodriguez]

@Wayne-Workman said in Need help with Snapin:

This might help you some - I’ve been working on it. Right now it’s quite simple and could be expanded greatly but it might get you started.

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Snapin_Examples

Thanks those are great! Could you possibly help with the office 2013? Those applications are pretty easy but i’m kind of stranded here…

I also went to this link which is a website mentioned on the wiki that helps with silent installs. They lost me on the second half of the tutorial as i have no idea what program they are using

[ITSolutions]

@Omar.rodriguez You can try this link for modify a Office 2013 install.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd630736.aspx#BKMK_UseOCTSilentInstallOpt

as for the link you provided that is specific to using Dell KACE deployment/management.

[Wayne Workman]

@Omar.rodriguez You might also work on getting MS Office to install silently using nothing but a batch script… Briefly looking through the available options, I think it can be done.

Seems you would probably decide to run the installer over the network (don’t recommend that) or to copy all install files to the local machine via batch script and then run the installer locally (and deleting when done).

Either way you go, I believe you need to create your very own config.xml file to specify all the options you want the installer to use. If there’s a silent option, use it. Then, just run the executable with the config.xml argument and then there you go.

Source: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179195.aspx

[george1421]

I can say that I have Office 2013 ProPlus install in an unattended manner via MDT as well as PDQ Deploy.

I used the source media to create an admin install directory and then I ran the setup in admin mode to create a custom MSP file with all of my settings. Then in MDT we run the following command to create the silent install.

setup.exe /adminfile “Office2013-Oct2015.MSP”

Now you can either bundle all of this into a snapin or provide a network share and then deploy a very small snapin that launches a network based install. This keeps having to download the entire office package via a snapin.

This article provides some good screen shots of creating an unattended install for office. http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/deploying-office-2013-managed-install

[Omar.rodriguez]

@Wayne-Workman said in Need help with Snapin:

@Omar.rodriguez You might also work on getting MS Office to install silently using nothing but a batch script… Briefly looking through the available options, I think it can be done.

Seems you would probably decide to run the installer over the network (don’t recommend that) or to copy all install files to the local machine via batch script and then run the installer locally (and deleting when done).

Either way you go, I believe you need to create your very own config.xml file to specify all the options you want the installer to use. If there’s a silent option, use it. Then, just run the executable with the config.xml argument and then there you go.

Source: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179195.aspx

After doing some research this isn’t a bad idea, by simply doing a silent install using a batch script.

I found a script that’s premade only has to be slightly modified which can be found here . I’ll update the thread with my results

[Wayne Workman]

@Omar.rodriguez Super nice find!

I am just going to copy what’s there, because all too often internet resources just vanish… needless to say, whatever you end up with, please do share in great detail.

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Thanks FN-GM, but I’d already seen that.
I tweaked the Office 2010 .bat file below.
The process for deploying Office 2013 is largely the same as 2010.
Unpack the .iso to an administrative share (the path and name must not contain spaces)
Run setup.exe /admin to run the OCT and create a .MSP file for silent install. Copy this file to the \updates\ folder.
Run the script, either manually or as a GPO startup script.

setlocal

REM *********************************************************************
REM Environment customization begins here. Modify variables below.
REM *********************************************************************

REM Get ProductName from the Office product's core Setup.xml file, and then add "office15." as a prefix. 
set ProductName=Office15.PROPLUS

REM Set DeployServer to a network-accessible location containing the Office source files.
set DeployServer=\\server\share\MS_Office_Professional_Plus_2013_32Bit

REM Set ConfigFile to the configuration file to be used for deployment (required)
set ConfigFile=\\server\share\MS_Office_Professional_Plus_2013_32Bit\ProPlus.WW\config.xml

REM Set LogLocation to a central directory to collect log files.
set LogLocation=\\server\share\MS_Office_Professional_Plus_2013_32Bit\Office2013LogFiles

REM *********************************************************************
REM Deployment code begins here. Do not modify anything below this line.
REM *********************************************************************

IF NOT "%ProgramFiles(x86)%"=="" (goto ARP64) else (goto ARP86)

REM Operating system is X64. Check for 32 bit Office in emulated Wow6432 uninstall key
:ARP64
reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432NODE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%ProductName%
if NOT %errorlevel%==1 (goto End)

REM Check for 32 and 64 bit versions of Office 2013 in regular uninstall key.(Office 64bit would also appear here on a 64bit OS) 
:ARP86
reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%ProductName%
if %errorlevel%==1 (goto DeployOffice) else (goto End)

REM If 1 returned, the product was not found. Run setup here.
:DeployOffice
start /wait %DeployServer%\setup.exe /config %ConfigFile%
echo %date% %time% Setup ended with error code %errorlevel%. >> %LogLocation%\%computername%.txt

REM If 0 or other was returned, the product was found or another error occurred. Do nothing.
:End

Endlocal

Source: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/office-software/104457-office-2013-install-startup-script-wanted.html

[Omar.rodriguez]

@Wayne-Workman I didn’t get a chance to test this snapin as I needed to have it done the following Monday. What I ended up doing was installing office 2013 and just not open it at all as the timer for office will not start until you open any of the applications.