I'm confused about the difference between installing Single Apps and excluding Apps from a suite. I know about this restriction: My question is if I only want Word and Excel will it take less disk space to install them as single apps or not? I noticed that when I installed Office 2010 Home and Student it would grab updates for Outlook and Access even though I didn't have them and those for Access in particular were big. I'm a bit short on disk space so want the most efficient method. Is there any other reason to pick one method over the other?
Compared to install Office ProPlus with only Word and Excel enabled? No, there will no big difference in space occupation on disk. You are always getting security updates for Outlook and Access because Word and Excel are using parts of them. For importing Access-DB tables in Excel for further calculations or form letters in Word. Regarding disk space there are no preferences. You won't gain much more space by using Single Apps. You should consider changing harddisk if space is a problem.
Sorry if it's a dumb question (I'm new ...), but I guess updating Office via Windows Update is not possible in this case ? The only way to do it is to use O2016RTool/UPDATE OFFICE TO A NEWER VERSION, right ?
Did you enable "download updates for other microsoft products" aka Microsoft Update at the WU screen?
Got a bit rusty, but afaik, the monthly Office Updates will be installed the usual way. The 'Update to a newer version' is more an upgrade to be exact and needs the tool. The Retail versions normally aren't upgraded that often, it only applies for the regularly refreshing Preview builds.
We have to consider two different! facts: Office Volume License (VLSC): Updates through Microsoft-/Windows-Update once a month on patch tuesday Office Click2Run (C2R): Updates through Internal Office Update. Start Office App (ex. Word), then Menu -> File -> Account -> Update Options. Depending which distribution channel you are using, there are more updates/month (especially on Insider FAST). O2016RTool installs a Click2Run version. So Internal Office Update is responsible.
Great, that's what I wanted to know. Thanks. EDIT: All went fine, at least I think so. Should there be some kind of information in 'Account' tab that Office is activated ?
Hi, I've got a bit of an issue with the O2016RTool. Namely, after clearing up my previous Office 2016 installation (using the MS tool) and installing it again using the package downloaded via the O2016RTool, I've got a problem converting the installation to VL. Specifically, the last step which is called "INSTALLING GVLK". It says "ECHO OFF", so I can't tell what command is being run, but a Windows Activation error window appears with the following text: An error has occurred. You can also contact Microsoft by phone to help resolve this problem. <this is a clickable link> Details: Code: 0x800606BA Description: The RPC server is unavailable. The command is a bit nonsensical, assuming the tool isn't trying to contact a remote RPC server. I did a quick check and trying to run the following command in PowerShell yield a correct response and no errors: "Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName 127.0.0.1". Does the tool connect to an external server for this step? If not, then what could be the issue? PS. Looking at the O2016RTool CMD file I can see that my OS version might be very important to finding the cause. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate. I've also already ran the "SFC /scannow" command and it found no errors.
Unlucky exceptional case. Normally and most of the time it works. First on my suspect list: Uninstall of prior Office installation currupted the system.
Do you happen to know how frequently the MS Office C2R Service checks for updates? I was just curious. No matter how frequently it is though, there's a catch: once it's found and downloaded an update, it can stay quiet about it for roughly a week! This would be because it detects that you're using one or more of the apps, in which case it forgoes the usual silent installation. For those that have them open a lot--even Skype for Business, which can stay open 24x7 for some--this means that there won't be a notification about the availability of an update for around a week, which is less than optimal. I'm not aware of a setting to more promptly notify.
Hello ! I downloaded Office 2016 Standard VLSC, and activated it with MTK. It's working great. I have one question though, Windows updates seems to install patches for all Office products - like Access, one drive, skype, project, visio - even if I didn't install those. Since I don't have a lot of disk space, I was wondering if installing standalone products would prevent that behavior and by doing so save some disk space ? I only need powerpoint, excel and word. Thanks a lot !