Installing Office 2016 through Ansible?

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Hi

I created a playbook to install Office 2016 which I think should work. I had it run setup.exe /adminfile <unattended.msp file> – the unattended.msp file I created by running setup.exe /setup and setting it to install with Display level: None, which has Suppress Modal selected only.

Each time I try running it, it keeps errorring out with a return code of 30066. Has anyone seen this issue before and how do we get around this error?

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Can you post your playbook here?

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Hi

The task part of the playbook is:

  • name: Install Office 2016 64-bit
    win_package:
    path: ‘c:\temp\Office2016\office2016-64\setup.exe’
    product_id: ‘{90160000-0012-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE}’
    arguments: ‘/adminfile unattended.MSP’

Before this task, I have another task that copied the distribution files for Office 2016 64 bit install to that c:\temp\Office2016\office2016-64\ directory already. The unattended.MSP is basically created with the Display level set to none with Suppress Modal selected only.

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Actually, I figured it out.

I was trying to install Office 2016 on a base Windows 7 64-bit machine.

There is a log of the install found in …\AppData\Local\Temp\SetupExe().txt and in that log I was able to find that it was failing due to a prerequisite check for KB2999226 hotfix. I will have my Office 2016 playbook install this hotfix first before attempting to install now.