How to Customize Microsoft Office C2R Installation

Microsoft Office 2019 and up (including 2021) does not provide MSI installation, only Click-to-Run (C2R), it requires Office Deployment Tool (ODT) in order for you to customize the installation.

Office Deployment Tool setup

Download Office Deployment Tool here.
Run the file to extract the contents.
Go to Office Customization Tool XML generator to generate your own configuration file.
Answer the following questions on the Office Customization Tool XML generator.

If you are using Retail IMG, you need to convert the generated XML file to Retail, as the Office Customization Tool XML generator does not allow you to select Retail version, only volume version.

Volume to Retail

Open your generated XML file.
Change the Product tag’s ID and PIDKEY attribute.
1. For Microsoft Office 2021, change the Product tag to <Product ID="ProPlus2021Retail" PIDKEY="FXYTK-NJJ8C-GB6DW-3DYQT-6F7TH">.
2. For Microsoft Office 2019, change the Product tag to <Product ID="ProPlus2019Retail" PIDKEY="NMMKJ-6RK4F-KMJVX-8D9MJ-6MWKP">.
Change the Channel attribute to Monthly or Current. (PerpetualVL channel does not work on Retail.)
1. For Monthly for stability, change the Channel attribute to Channel="Monthly".
2. For Current for the latest features, change the Channel attribute to Channel="Current".

In order to install Microsoft Office using your configuration file.

Microsoft Office installation

Put your configuration file on the folder where you extracted the deployment tool.
Run command prompt on the folder where you extracted the deployment tool.
Type setup /configure config.xml where config.xml is the filename of the configuration file.

My example configuration

My configuration file installs the fil-ph language of Office, excludes Access, Groove, Lync, OneDrive, OneNote, and Outlook (as I don’t need them) and uses the E:\ path for the installer, as I mounted the IMG file on Windows.

Microsoft Office 2021

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<Configuration ID="6201bc15-4b3b-44e0-8bb7-0283ecf3e589">
  <Info Description="Install Office 2021" />
  <Add OfficeClientEdition="64" Channel="Monthly" SourcePath="E:\" AllowCdnFallback="TRUE">
    <Product ID="ProPlus2021Retail" PIDKEY="FXYTK-NJJ8C-GB6DW-3DYQT-6F7TH">
      <Language ID="en-us" />
      <Language ID="fil-ph" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Access" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="OneDrive" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="OneNote" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Outlook" />
    </Product>
  </Add>
  <Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="0" />
  <Property Name="PinIconsToTaskbar" Value="FALSE" />
  <Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN" Value="FALSE" />
  <Property Name="DeviceBasedLicensing" Value="0" />
  <Property Name="SCLCacheOverride" Value="0" />
  <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="0" />
  <Updates Enabled="TRUE" />
  <RemoveMSI />
  <Display Level="Full" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
  <Logging Level="Off" />
</Configuration>

Microsoft Office 2019

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<Configuration ID="bd799f92-6cef-4fbe-955c-b7e82ede914a">
  <Info Description="Install Office 2019" />
  <Add OfficeClientEdition="64" Channel="Monthly" SourcePath="E:\" AllowCdnFallback="TRUE">
    <Product ID="ProPlus2019Retail" PIDKEY="NMMKJ-6RK4F-KMJVX-8D9MJ-6MWKP">
      <Language ID="en-us" />
      <Language ID="fil-ph" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Access" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="OneDrive" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="OneNote" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Outlook" />
    </Product>
  </Add>
  <Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="0" />
  <Property Name="PinIconsToTaskbar" Value="FALSE" />
  <Property Name="SCLCacheOverride" Value="0" />
  <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="0" />
  <Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN" Value="FALSE" />
  <Property Name="DeviceBasedLicensing" Value="0" />
  <Updates Enabled="TRUE" />
  <RemoveMSI />
  <Display Level="Full" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
  <Logging Level="Off" />
</Configuration>