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Fix error code 17006 when adding product to existing Office 365 ProPlus install

Source: https://lazyadmin.nl/it/error-code-17006-when-adding-feature-to-office-365-proplus-install/

When you want to add an Office program to an existing Office 365 ProPlus installation with PDQ Deploy or SCCM it’s necessary to add the FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN property to the XML file. If you don’t do that, you will probably get error code 17006 (or 0x426e(17006) in SCCM) 

Fixing error 17006

If you already have a deployment setup you might have a config.xml file similar to this:

<Configuration>
  <Add OfficeClientEdition="64" Channel="Monthly">
    <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
      <Language ID="nl-nl" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Access" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="InfoPath" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" />
    </Product>
  </Add>
  <Updates Enabled="TRUE" Channel="Current" />
  <Logging Level="Standard" Path="C:\temp"/>
        <RemoveMSI All="TRUE"/>
        <AppSettings>
             <Setup Value="LazyAdmin" Name="Company"/>
        </AppSetting>
        <Display AcceptEULA="TRUE" Level="None"/>
</Configuration>

As you can see we excluded Access, InfoPath and Publisher in the default installation. When you want to add one of these apps later to the installation you will need to create a separate config file where you include the app in question.

For example, when you want to install Publisher, you only remove the ExcludeApp id line for Publisher. This way Office 365 ProPlus will be installed/updated with Publisher. Everything else that you exclude here will be removed. So keep that in mind.

For adding Publisher you create the following config file:

<Configuration>
  <Add OfficeClientEdition="64" Channel="Monthly">
    <Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
      <Language ID="nl-nl" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Access" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="InfoPath" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" />
    </Product>
  </Add>
  <Updates Enabled="TRUE" Channel="Current" />
  <Logging Level="Standard" Path="C:\temp"/>
        <RemoveMSI All="TRUE"/>
        <AppSettings>
             <Setup Value="LazyAdmin" Name="Company"/>
        </AppSetting>
        <Display AcceptEULA="TRUE" Level="None"/>
        <Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN" Value="TRUE"/>
</Configuration>

Notice line 18, here we added the ForceAppShutdown property. This will close any open Office 365 apps that will otherwise prevent the installation of the additional product.

Update Jan 2019

I noticed that this article was a little outdated. First off, the error code is still related to the fact the Office is running. So you will have to make sure every Office program is closed before you can update the installation.

But in the supplied examples there were a few outdated or incorrect lines:

Update channels

The channel names are changed. You can find the new channel names here in the Microsoft Documentation. Use Monthly to keep the clients up-to-date.

If you don’t want the clients to update them self, but keep control over the released versions. Then you can disable the update by setting the Updates to false.

<Updates UpdatePath="\\test\" Enabled="FALSE"/>

In large Enterprises, you might want to test the new releases before you roll it out. I use the targeted release for this and have assigned a couple of key users to be updated first. You can read more about targeted release for Office 365 here at Microsoft.

Activating

Setting the autoactivate to 1 isn’t necessary for Office 365. The user needs to sign in to active Office 365 or you can use the Azure Single Sign-On. Read more about setting SSO up here.

Use the Office Customization Tool

To create the config file for your environment you can use the new Office Configuration tool. This allows you to easily create the xml file to you specifications.

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