Office 2016 Click To Run

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Hi All, been a while since I posted here but something I jsut cannot get my head around.

My client use Office 2016 click to run, and we have customised the installation to ensure Groove, Lync, Access and Publisher are NOT installed on the users machine as not all users require this. We deploy via SCCM and Office 2016 C2R is installed in our base WIM file.

Now as you can imagine, there are always a handful of users who for example require Access or Lync (Skype For Business) perhaps, and we need the ability to be give them these via SCCM. The problem starts is how can we deliver Access to a user (who already has our base Office installation) without having to make them download the full 2GB+ package again. With previous MSI versions of Office, you could simply reconfigure the existing installation on the machine and voila, the user would have Access. It seems Click To Run does not have the ability to reconfigure an existing installation.

A simple example of this, yesterday a user of ours who has Office C2R installed (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint), requested Skype For Business. Now unless i am doing something wrong, the source files for Skype For Business are basically the same files used to install the whole Office suite, thus making the file size of the package about 2GB. This meant I had to push out a 2GB+ package to the user, just so I could give them Skype For Business. I can see this presenting many issues in a low bandwidth environment. Sometimes I am left in disbelief as to how Microsoft can overcomplicate things