Microsoft T5D01575, 79G-03775 manual Office Customization Tool OCT in Office 2013 Preview

Office Customization Tool (OCT) in Office 2013 Preview

Audience: IT Professionals

To customize an installation of Office 2013 Preview, you can use the Office Customization Tool (OCT) to perform tasks such as the following:

∙Specifying installation options

∙Customizing how Office applications and features are installed

∙Configuring default user settings

∙Managing additional content: add or remove files, registry entries or shortcuts

∙Configuring Outlook options: setting the default profile, adding email accounts, and specifying Exchange settings

In this article:

∙Overview of the Office Customization Tool

∙Architecture-specific versions of the Office Customization Tool

∙Importing Office Customization Tool .msp customization files

∙Configuring Setup, Features, Additional content, and Outlook settings

∙Setup

∙Features

∙Additional content

∙Outlook

∙Downloading updated OCT files

Overview of the Office Customization Tool

The OCT is part of the Setup program and is the recommended tool for most customizations. The OCT is available only with volume licensed versions of Windows Installer-based Office 2013 Preview, Office 2010, and the 2007 Office system. To determine whether an Office 2013 Preview installation is a volume licensed version, check the Office 2013 Preview installation disk to see whether it contains a folder named Admin. If the Admin folder exists, the disk is a volume license edition. If the Admin folder does not exist, the disk is a retail edition. For information about the network installation point, see Customize Setup in Customize Setup before installing Office 2013.

You run the OCT by typing setup.exe /admin at the command line from the root of the network installation point that contains the Office 2013 Preview source files. For example, use the following: \\server\share\Office15\setup.exe /admin. When you run the OCT, you choose to create a new Setup customization (.msp) file or to open an existing .msp file. If you create a new file, the OCT displays a list of the products that are available on the network installation point. You must select a single product that you want to customize.

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