[How To] Disable Office 2013 First Run registry tweak, plus config.xml

[Rico.JohnnY]

Not sure if this tweak has been posted before since it's a bit different from the one of Office 2010, I saw this tweak from Office 2013 Administrative Templates(admx) days ago.

For Office 2013

; Disable Office First Run
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\FirstRun]
"BootedRTM"=dword:00000001
; Disable First Run movie
"disablemovie"=dword:00000001

; Disable First Run Opt-in Wizard
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General]
"shownfirstrunoptin"=dword:00000001

;Trust Center - Privacy Options - "Sign up for the Customer Experience Improvemet Program" - Disabled
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\PTWatson]
"PTWOptIn"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common]
"qmenable"=dword:00000000

For Office 2010

; Disable First Run Opt-in Wizard
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\General]
"shownfirstrunoptin"=dword:00000001
"FirstRun"=dword:00000000

;Trust Center - Privacy Options - "Sign up for the Customer Experience Improvemet Program" - Disabled
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\PTWatson]
"PTWOptIn"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common]
"qmenable"=dword:00000000

Personally I prefer using config.xml for Office 2013 deployment to the method of using OCT, due to its scriptable and fast-editing capability, here's the sample of config.xml for those who are intereted.

To invoke, navigate to Office install source and run

setup.exe /config config.xml

As for me, a batch is used to implement multi-architecture deployment based on computer name.

CD /D "%~dp032bit"
IF /I %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% == amd64 CD /D "%~dp064bit"
setup.exe /config "%~dp0%COMPUTERNAME%.xml"

config.xml

<Configuration Product="ProPlusr">

<Display Level="basic" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" />

 <AddLanguage Id="en-us" ShellTransform="yes"/>

 <AddLanguage Id="zh-cn" />

 <!-- <Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office Professional Plus Setup(*).txt" /> -->

 <USERNAME Value="blah" />

 <COMPANYNAME Value="blah" />

 <PIDKEY Value="Office product key with no hyphen" />

 <!-- <INSTALLLOCATION Value="%programfiles%\Microsoft Office" /> -->

 <!-- <LIS CACHEACTION="CacheOnly" /> -->

 <!-- <LIS SOURCELIST="[/size][url="file://\\server1\share\Office;\\server2\share\Office"][size="2"]\\server1\share\Office;\\server2\share\Office[/size][/url][size="2"]" /> -->

 <!-- <DistributionPoint Location="[/size][url="file://\\server\share\Office"][size="2"]\\server\share\Office[/size][/url][size="2"]" /> -->

 <!--Access-->
 <OptionState Id="ACCESSFiles" State="absent" Children="force" />
 <!--Excel-->
 <OptionState Id="EXCELFiles" State="local" Children="force" />
 <!--InfoPath-->
 <OptionState Id="XDOCSFiles" State="local" Children="force" />
 <!--Lync-->
 <OptionState Id="LyncCoreFiles" State="absent" Children="force" />
 <!--OneNote-->
 <OptionState Id="OneNoteFiles" State="local" Children="force" />
 <!--Outlook-->
 <OptionState Id="OUTLOOKFiles" State="local" Children="force" />
 <!--PowerPoint-->
 <OptionState Id="PPTFiles" State="local" Children="force" />
 <!--Publisher-->
 <OptionState Id="PubPrimary" State="absent" Children="force" />
 <!--SkyDrive Pro-->
 <OptionState Id="GrooveFiles2" State="local" Children="force" />
 <!--Visio Viewer-->
 <OptionState Id="VisioPreviewerFiles" State="absent" Children="force" />
 <!--Word-->
 <OptionState Id="WORDFiles" State="local" Children="force" />
 <!--Shared Files-->
 <OptionState Id="SHAREDFiles" State="local" Children="force" />
 <!--Tools-->
 <OptionState Id="TOOLSFiles" State="local" Children="force" />

 <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="never" />

 <!-- <Command Path="%windir%\system32\msiexec.exe" Args="/i [/size][url="file://\\server\share\my.msi"][size="2"]\\server\share\my.msi[/size][/url][size="2"]" QuietArg="/q" ChainPosition="after" Execute="install" /> -->

</Configuration>

Edited March 16, 2013 by Rico.JohnnY

[Rico.JohnnY]

Feature IDs corrected.