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Since updates are cumulative and already included in the latest version of Office 2019 you don’t use Microsoft Updates or WSUS to update Office 2019. Instead you can use Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager to help you deploy and manage updates to Office 2019. Let’s proceed with deploying Office 2019 using Configuration Manager.

1. Create your configuration file

Use this guide, to create your configuration file -> Microsoft Web Site

An example:

Replace <*your sccm server sources*> by your unc path to your sources for application on sccm server

Replace <*your product key*> by your product key of O2019.

2. Extract setup

Create a new folder such as Office 2019 within sources folder and select the folder. Click OK. The executable extracts setup and configuration files inside the selected folder.

There are 2 files present in the folder:

setup.exe and config.xml

3. Download Office:

Run the command line:

setup /download config.xml

4. Deploy Office 2019 using SCCM:

On the General page, select Manually specify the application information. Click Next.

Specify some information about Office 2019 application and click Next.

Add a new deployment type and on General page, select Manually specify the deployment type information. Click Next.

Specify the content location. This is the folder where Office 2019 setup files are present along with setup and config files. Next, specify the installation program as per below format.

"\\<*your sccm server office share unc path*>\setup.exe" /configure config.xml

Adding a detection method is really important here. Add the Office 2019 detection method with following settings.

• Setting Type – Registry
• Hive – HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
• Key – SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration
• Value – VersionToReport
• Enable “This registry key is associated with a 32-bit application on 64-bit systems”
• Data Type – Version
• Select “This registry setting must satisfy following rule to indicate the presence of this application”
• Operator – Greater than or equal to
• Value – 16.0.10336.20044

Click OK to close detection rule box. Click Next.

Specify the user experience settings for the application. Click Next.

Note that Office 2019 is compatible with Windows 10 OS only. Therefore you have to specify the OS requirements here. Click Next.

On the Completion page click Close. This will close create application wizard.

You have now packaged Office 2019 application. Finally deploy the Office 2019 to a device collection.

Enjoy!