How to download offline Office 2013 Pro Plus installer from Office 365

I looked around quite a bit to find how to download an offline installer for Office 365 based Office 2013 Pro Plus, but, unfortunately, I didn’t find to-the-point instructions on this. So, here is my very quick guide to downloading Office 2013 Pro Plus offline installer from Office 365.

First of all, note that you cannot download the Office 365 Pro Plus installer from the Office 365 admin portal. Instead you have to use the Office Deployment Tool to accomplish this. Once you have this tool downloaded then you have to create a configuration file for it. Finally you use the included setup.exe with /download parameter to download the installer to the desired location.

Step-by-Step

1. Download Office Deployment Tool.

2. Setup the configuration.xml file replacing the SourcePath and UpdatePath as appropriate in your case.

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<Configuration>
	<Add SourcePath="PATH_TO_YOUR_DOWNLOAD_FOLDER, e.g. E:\Downloads" OfficeClientEdition="32" >
		<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
			<Language ID="en-us" />
		</Product>
		<Product ID="VisioProRetail">
			<Language ID="en-us" />
		</Product>
	</Add>

	<Updates Enabled="TRUE" UpdatePath="PATH_TO_YOUR_DOWNLOAD_FOLDER, e.g. E:\Downloads" />
	<Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
  <!--  <Logging Name="OfficeSetup.txt" Path="%temp%" />  -->
  <!--  <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" />  -->
</Configuration>

3. Finally run the following command to download the source.

setup.exe /download configuration.xml

4. Wait for the download to finish. This can take some time depending on your internet speed.

Once you have the installer downloaded you can easily install it using setup.exe /configure configuration.xml

There you have it!