Table of Contents
Before you begin
In many cases, you can install Office, Project, and Visio on the same computer. But, there are some combinations of Office, Project, and Visio that can’t be installed together on the same computer.
What governs whether an installation scenario is supported are these two rules:
- You can’t install two products together that have the same version but use different installation technologies.
- You can’t install two products of different versions together if both products use Click-to-Run as the installation technology and those products have overlapping Office applications.
Download Office Deployment Tool
1. Open downloaded file then extract it to a folder on desktop. You can click button to create a folder then extract downloaded file into it.
2. Open extracted folder then delete all xml configuration files, we’ll create a configuration file in next step.
Create a configuration file for Office Deployment Tool
3. Visit this site https://config.office.com/deploymentsettings to create a xml configuration file.
Products and release:
- Architecture: Select the architecture you want to deploy, Office 64bit or Office 32 bit.
- Products: Select Visio products from the drop-down menu, in this guide, i’ll install Visio Professional 2019.
4. Select language for Office apps, you can specify more than one language for the deployment.
6. Select the checkbox to accept the terms in the license agreement then click .
7. If you get this warning, let select button to download the xml configuration file.
8. Now, copy downloaded xml configuration file to the extracted folder in the previous step. So, in this folder, we’ve setup.exe and configuration.xml.
9. Open the configuration file using Notepad then remove channel parameter, we don’t need it.
Note: If you don’t remove the channel parameter, you would get this error This Product Cannot Be Installed On The Selected Update Channel
After remove the parameter, your configuration look like below. Don’t forget close the text editor then save the changes.
<Configuration ID="2177ad61-44ff-4e7f-abe3-9a7a60ffb93c">
<Add OfficeClientEdition="64">
<Product ID="VisioPro2019Volume" PIDKEY="B4NPR-3FKK7-T2MBV-FRQ4W-PKD2B">
<Language ID="en-us" />
</Product>
</Add>
<Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="0" />
<Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN" Value="FALSE" />
<Property Name="DeviceBasedLicensing" Value="0" />
<Property Name="SCLCacheOverride" Value="0" />
<Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" />
<Updates Enabled="TRUE" />
<RemoveMSI />
</Configuration>10. In the folder, right click on blank then create a new text document.
11. Open the New Text Document file then enter following code:
setup.exe /configure configuration.xml
12. Next, save the text file as batch file. To do it, let’s navigate to the File menu | Save as…
- Save as type: All Files
- File name: install.bat
13. Finally, open the batch file to download and install Microsoft Visio 2019. It could take several minutes to complete depending on the internet speed.
Downloading and installing Microsoft Visio 2019 Click to Run.
Once done, let’s open the app to verify it works, or you can find the app in Control Panel.
