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How to Install Only Outlook from Microsoft 365 Suite

Problem:

  • You already have Office 2007 with license key. However Office 365 email service does not work with Outlook 2007.
  • You have to use Outlook 365 to connect to Office 365 email service.
  • However you still want to use Word, Excel and Power Point 2007 so that you do not have to log in Office 365 account for activation and to avoid accidential uploading files to Office 365 account.
  • You also still want to use Word, Excel and Power Point 2007 because of their speed and the ability to paste an image to center of a slide.
  • So you want to install only Outlook 365.

Solution:

  1. Download Office Deployment Tool.
  2. Extract the exe file to C:\Users\admin\Downloads\O365. (Replace admin with your Windows username.)
  3. Copy configuration-Office365-x64.xml to outlook.xml.
  4. odify the content of the outlook.xml file as below.
    <Configuration>
    
      <Add SourcePath="C:\Users\admin\Downloads\O365" OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel="Current">
        <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
          <Language ID="en-us" />
          <ExcludeApp ID="Access" />
          <ExcludeApp ID="Bing" />
          <ExcludeApp ID="Excel" />
          <ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
          <ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />
          <ExcludeApp ID="OneDrive" />
          <ExcludeApp ID="OneNote" />
          <!--  <ExcludeApp ID="Outlook" /> -->
          <ExcludeApp ID="PowerPoint" />
          <ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" />
          <ExcludeApp ID="Teams" />
          <ExcludeApp ID="Word" />
        </Product>
      </Add>
    
      <!--  <Updates Enabled="TRUE" Channel="Current" /> -->
    
      <!--  <Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />  -->
    
      <!--  <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" />  -->
    
    </Configuration>
  5. Open Command Prompt (Admin).
  6. Execute the commands below.
    cd C:\Users\admin\Downloads\O365
    setup.exe /download outlook.xml
    setup.exe /configure outlook.xml
  7. If you have any issues with the steps then recheck Microsoft guide.
  8. You may also use online Office Customization Tool to to create a configuration file and download it for using with the Office Deployment Tool.