I’m currently struggling with the Office Deployment Tool for Office 365.
I downloaded the tool and essentially used the default config.xml for the /download command. The target folder is within our daily use fileshare that all domain users have full read/write permissions to with no issues.
Using the same config.xml file, i’m using the /configure command. All I get is a “Couldn’t Install” error message from the O365 installer, the configure script is not writing to a log (its failing before that apparently) and of course there’s nothing in the error logs. I trim the config.xml all the way down to literally just the install commands and get the same thing.
Tried run as admin (all users are local admins anyway), tried logging in as a DOMAIN admin, tried moving the directory, redownloading the install files twice, nada. Windows firewall is disabled and I’m even disabling our Kaspersky AV during the process with no success. Of course, the web installer works perfectly fine.
I’m at a loss here. Has anyone else run into anything similar? It feels like something is actively blocking the connection to the install files, but I can’t imagine what.
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Can you post the xml file you are using? You have modified it to include the full network path to the files, right?
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Thankfully it doesn’t seem to have been my fault 
Apparently running the tool in /download mode was failing to complete the download and missing a few files. I re-ran it the next morning and everything started working.
Still, Microsoft seriously needs to make those error messages more descriptive. “Couldn’t Install”? Really guys?
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Yeah, error messages have been a problem for them for a very long time.
