Microsoft Project
Note that this (along with Visio) is not covered under the GU Office 365 subscription. Licences have to be bought separately. These can be bought from IT services (although in some circumstances it may be better to buy standalone retail versions using credit card orders). The IT service versions are volume licenced and activated against the kms server in the same way as Win Enterprise and Office 2010 onwards (as opposed to 365).
Installing Project 2016 alongside Office 365 §
If you have Office 365 (2016 ver) installed you cannot then install the normal volume licensed version of Project (or Visio) 2016:
Office installed with Click-to-Run and Windows Installer on same computer isn't supported
There is a way around this - you can generate click-to-run installers for Project or Visio and then have them install in this case (note that they will still need to be activated with the kms server). The article here gives the details:
Use the Office Deployment Tool to install volume licensed editions of Visio and Project
Installation files and instructions
Download the Project2016ClicktoRun.zip
file from http://wiki.physics.gla.ac.uk/Downloads/MSOffice/ and extract the contents in a temporary directory.
Right-click on install.bat
and Run as administrator (or run from an elevated command prompt).
Once the install has finished run activate.bat
to activate using the kms server (you will need to be on the campus network or using VPN).
Note: if the system runs Windows Enterprise and has been activated using the kms server, or there was a previous Office install activated using kms then Project may be activated already, if you had an active connection to the campus network. You can check this by running Project and checking the Account screen. Activating it again doesn't do any harm.
If you're interested in how this install package was generated, read on...
Generating the install package
You may want to do this to get an install that is more up-to-date or has additional language packs etc.
Download the most current version of the Office Deployment Tool from the Microsoft Download Center and install (needs admin rights, asks you where to put the files). This gives you a setup.exe
and some example configuration files in XML format.
Create a new XML file in the same directory, say configuration-ProjectStd2016-x86.xml
with contents
<Configuration>
<Add OfficeClientEdition="32">
<Product ID="ProjectStdXVolume" PIDKEY="D8NRQ-JTYM3-7J2DX-646CT-6836M">
<Language ID="en-us" />
</Product>
</Add>
</Configuration>
Start an elevated command prompt and change to the directory. Run the setup program with:
setup.exe /download configuration-ProjectStd2016-x86.xml
This should download the installation files in an Office
subdirectory. There is no feedback during this process. The Downloaded files come to about a couple of Gb.
Once the download is finished you can then install Project with:
setup.exe /configure configuration-ProjectStd2016-x86.xml
Note: make sure you specify the configuration filename correctly, including the extension. The error if you don't is quite misleading.
Installation logs should be written by default to %temp%
Once the installation is complete you can activate (if required) against the kms server (via VPN if necessary). Run
cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs" /sethst:mskms.gla.ac.uk
cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs" /act
Useful batch files
Run these by right-clicking and choosing Run as administrator, or run from an elevated command prompt.
install.bat
cd /d "%~dp0"
setup.exe /configure configuration-ProjectStd2016-x86.xml
REM pause
Uncomment the pause for debugging purposes.
According to this post better practice is to issue setlocal enableextensions
before cd /d "%~dp0"
but it seems to work ok without it in this case.
activate.bat
cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs" /sethst:mskms.gla.ac.uk
cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs" /act
pause