Recently trying to install Exchange 2016 CU 15 , the setup stopped for 1 hour at 

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The last line in C:\ExchangeSetupLogs\ExchangeSetup.log

Was

 [1] Finished updating performance counter strings

If you see this in your environment, just wait! This process took 4 hours in my environment in the end

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Extract the ISO to a folder and run from the root folder

setup.exe /admin

to open this

Go through all the options especially above for the CD Key information and accepting License and Display Level None

Once this is done , Save this as an MSP file with any name in the UPDATES folder of the CD ( The installer runs all the MSP’s in here ) 

Next create a config.xml file in the same directory as setup.exe with the below config

<Configuration Product="PrjPror">
<!-- <Display Level="full" CompletionNotice="yes" SuppressModal="no" AcceptEula="no" /> -->
<!-- <Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office Project Professional Setup(*).txt" /> -->
<!-- <USERNAME Value="Customer" /> -->
<!-- <COMPANYNAME Value="MyCompany" /> -->
<!-- <INSTALLLOCATION Value="%programfiles%\Microsoft Office" /> -->
<!-- <LIS CACHEACTION="CacheOnly" /> -->
<!-- <LIS SOURCELIST="\\server1\share\Office;\\server2\share\Office" /> -->
<!-- <DistributionPoint Location="\\server\share\Office" /> -->
<!-- <OptionState Id="OptionID" State="absent" Children="force" /> -->
<!-- <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="IfNeeded" /> -->
<!-- <Command Path="%windir%\system32\msiexec.exe" Args="/i \\server\share\my.msi" QuietArg="/q" ChainPosition="after" Execute="install" /> -->
<Display Level="None" CompletionNotice="No" SuppressModal="No" AcceptEula="Yes" />
<Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" />
< /Configuration>

Next use IntuneWinAppUtil.exe to package the App Up

c:\TempPath\Intune-Win32-App-Packaging-Tool-master>IntuneWinAppUtil.exe
Please specify the source folder: “F:\Project2010\”
Please specify the setup file: setup.exe
Please specify the output folder: C:\TempPath\Project2010

Intune Settings

Install Command : setup.exe /config config.xml

Unintall Command : Setup.exe /uninstall 90140000-00B4-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE

Detection Rule  ( Check File ) : C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINPROJ.EXE

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Download files from here : https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=35554 for your right 64bit or 32bit

Extract the files to a new temp directory, this will create 3 directories and a spreadsheet file (ADM, Admin, ADMX, Office2013GroupPolicyAndOCTSettings.xls)

Now create the directory PolicyDefinitions under: \\your_domain_controller\SYSVOL\your_domain_name\Policies\

It’s easy to do this from your domain controller or just UNC to your sysvol share off your domain controller

Copy all the files that were unzipped in the temp ADMX directory to the new PolicyDefinitions directory you created.

Restart GPMC and either edit or create a new group policy

When the Group Policy Management Editor window comes up, you should see new templates under Administrative Templates.

The folder should state: Administrative Templates: Policy Definitions (ADMX) Retrieved from the Central Store

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Recently on trying to install the ScreenPresso Commerical MSI the following error message showed up when trying to install

The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation

Removing restrictions we had setup for installations we still had the issue. We then tried on a new machine not joined to the domain and it still had the issue. Turns out the file had been compiled or downloaded incorrectly which produced this!

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How to uninstall vsto

“%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\VSTO\10.0\VSTOInstaller.exe” /uninstall \\path\to\vsto\AddIn.vsto

How to silently install vsto

“%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\VSTO\10.0\VSTOInstaller.exe” /install /silent \\path\to\vsto\AddIn.vsto

How to install via group policy

Bat Login Script

Source code

@echo off
REM Check for presence of vsto key first if not found run installer
reg query HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins\DCCWord2010 /e >nul 2>nul || ("C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VSTO\10.0\VSTOInstaller.exe" /I "\\path\to\vsto\AddIn.vsto" /S)

Turns out using this

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Runonce

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

vbs file via run registry  ( The advantage of using this is it runs once for each user however they will need to log in twice if they are logged off!)

 Turns out using this registy value HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Runonce The user needs to be a local administrator…

So we had to put the value inside here : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run , and let the file remove it after running

Group Policy Registry key to add to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Link as my hosting doesn’t allow these file types! http://pastebin.com/SNzSP2Xw

vbs script

Source code

Dim commandDim WshShellcommand=chr(34) & "%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\VSTO\10.0\VSTOInstaller.exe" & chr(34) & " /Silent /Install " & chr(34) & "\\path\to\vsto\AddIn.vsto" & chr(34)
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")WshShell.Run command
'Delete the Run Key to make sure it runs once - we cannot put this in the run one registry due to users not being administrators
Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
strComputer = "." Set objRegistry=GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & _  strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv") strKeyPath = "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"strValueName = "ExternalPDatabases"
objRegistry.DeleteValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, strValueName

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