
The hard troubleshooting is captured here. I'm also afraid that the valuable information will disappear along with the question. I'd like to add the answer to my question here because I believe that most people will find it easy to follow.

My question was closed with a reference to this question as the original. Run setup /configure custom-configfile.xml Put your custom-configuration.xml in Office2016 as well.įrom an Administrative command prompt cd to Office2016 With the deployment tool provided setup.exe (4.1MB) In Office2016 replace default setup.exe (400KB)

Please up vote the comments from and on that answer because those people found this info first and deserve recognition of that.

I was originally going to add this as a comment to the excellent answer from however I couldn't get the comment to format in a readable state.
