Color scheme Office 2013

When will a new color scheme come out? I'm going crazy with these ultra bright options!

Hi,
I'm so sorry if the design of the products brings you any inconvenience, but I haven't heard any news about adding new colors to Office 2013.
It's true the fact is we only have White, Light Gray and Dark Gray in Office 2013, which is complained about by some of our customers. But please be assured that any improvements in the product are based on users' requirements. Our developers strive
to capture Microsoft users' ideas and are working hard to create a more powerful and easy-to-use product.
Thank you for focusing on our products, let's look forward to the further versions.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

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2013 office color scheme

I just bought 2013 office. I have to say I really was surprised on the color scheme options. It seems the developers didn't even try to make a more user friendly background. People like me that where glasses have a hard enough time with glare. I have an
expensive monitor to help with reading emails. Then when I loaded office I just couldn't believe that's what they gave us. I have been using office since the beginning and true in the early versions it was generic with little to no options. Programs are supposed
to improve over time not go backwards. If I would have know the screen would have been that bad I would not have upgraded.
Somebody make a fix not just develop something else to sell us.

Hi William,
Sorry for the inconvenience caused. We have heard such report about Office 2013 Theme for several times, and we have submitted a feedback through the internal way. It would be appreciated if you can send your
suggestions and feedback to our product team via:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-US/suggestions.aspx
Thank you for your understanding and support.
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

Changing Color of MS Office 2013 - From Grey to White

How do I make MS Office - Excel, Word and Outlook on normal white color just a MS 2007.. Please help.
I tried changing it to white from account menu..but it still is the same.

So when you go to Accounts (or Office Account in Outlook) and change it from one of the two Gray options to White, nothing happens?
Screenshots of the 3 color choices are here -
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/2013/changing-office-2013s-color-scheme/ - there aren't colors like in Office 2007.
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center
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Office 2013 graveyard colors.

COLOR, Eyestrain, dead; talk about being thrown into the abyss. This is a step back to the first office created by MS; (oh pardon me it had color) what the H... were they thinking. Is it too much to ask for some color, they sure didn't seem to
mind delivering color in Win 8.
Update with COLOR! Some depth, less eyestrain, something. Are they working on an update????
Everybody in the office is complaining, we just installed and the first thing everyone said was where do I change the color. When they saw it was only 3 poorly designed neutral colors, half of them quit using it and went back to their old office.
This is really causing a problem in our office communications. We have lost productivity and continue to hear grumbles.
MS DO SOMETHING!

Hi
Thank you for your feedback about Office 2013, you can go to to send the feedback to Microsoft.
Also we will report your suggestions to the related teams and they willl evaluate on how to improve Office product further.
Regards
Tylor Wang
TechNet Community Support

Microsoft Office 2013 - Fix for Outlook's color categories??

I am an Administrative Assistant and handle several people's calendars in my office. Not everyone uses the same colors for their categories.
Since installing Office 2013, I can no longer:
1. Change a color category without completely opening an invite. I can now only do this on
MY calendar from the calendar screen, without opening an invite. I used to be able to left click a meeting from the calendar screens select category and change just one occurrence. Now I get this error message:
"The operation failed. The messaging interfaces have returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, restart Outlook"
2. Change a color category for a single invite that is part of a series invite. In other words, It's all or nothing. For instance, yellow is our code for a conference call, so if a meeting series is usually a face-to-face meeting, but one day (bad weather,
etc...), we need to make it a dial-in only, I cannot change the color of that one day only.
Any known solution to these issues?

Hi,
Have you tried recreating the mail profile? Some users have a similar issue were able to fix it by recreating a new Outlook mail profile in Control Panel. To create a new mail profile, go to Control Panel > Mail > Show Profiles and then click Add button
to create a new profile. For detailed information, please refer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918
Please let me know the result.
Regards,
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

Office 2013: 10 Best Features You Should Know About

The new Office 2013 has some key updates that, while aren’t quite as dramatic as theWindows 8 from Windows 7change, still have some pretty cool features for mobile and desktop. Office 2013, will ship sometime next year at prices that have not been announced
yet. Check out the top 10 features:
Going Mobile. Microsoft has geared the new software towards a more mobile-friendly audience, allowing users to interact more
efficiently on mobile and tablets including finger and stylus controls that may help to spur Office’s migration to mobile devices. Another decidedly mobile move is Office Home and Student 2013 RT, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, will come
with ARM-based Windows 8 devices including Microsoft Surface .
In The Cloud. Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud service is being positioned to play a key role in Office users’ daily computing
lives. Office 2013 will save your documents to SkyDrive by default, enabling you to access files from multiple devices, including a smartphone and tablet. When you sign into Office from another device, your personalized settings and recently used files
are already there for you. The new Office is available as a cloud-based subscription too. Office 365 is now also available for home-based users as well as businesses. Subscribers will get automatic upgrades, additional SkyDrive storage, multiple installs for
several users, and added perks such as international calls via Skype.
Finger and Stylus. Office 2013 embraces touch and pen input. The touch and stylus features are geared towards smartphones and
tablets, as well as multi-touch laptops. The touch features are the same as users are accustomed to on their smartphones and tablets; swipe a finger across the screen to turn a page, pinch and zoom to read documents, and write with a finger or stylus.
Metro Style. Office 2013 conforms to Microsoft’s “Metro” look that’s pervasive across the software developers latest mobile
apps. The Office Ribbon in Word 2013 has a flatter look than its predecessor in Word 2010.
PDF’s in Word. You can now edit PDF files in Word 2013 (yay!). Simply open a PDF as you would any other document. Word maintains
the formatting of the file which is fully editable. You can insert pictures and videos from online sites such as YouTube and Facebook as well. And readers can watch video clips from inside your document.
Excel. Excel offers some useful upgrades including new templates for budgets, calendars, forms, and reports. The new Quick
Analysis Lens lets you convert data to a chart or table in a couple of steps. Flash Fill recognizes patters in your data and automatically fills cells accordingly. For example: if you want to separate first and last names into separate columns simply begin
typing the first names in a new column, press Ctrl+E and Excel will copy the first names for you.
PowerPoint Has Gained Power. PowerPoint 2013 now sports an updated Start screen with a variety of new themes and color schemes.
The Presenter View now makes it easier to zoom in on a diagram, chart, or other detail that you want to emphasize to the audience. The Navigation Guide lets you switch slides, even move out of sequence, from a grid that you can see but your audience can’t.
Presentations can be worked on from different PCs by colleagues to create a single presentation. Comments are allowed and presentations are saved online by default to SkyDrive.
OneNote. OneNote automatically saves your notes to Skydrive, you don’t have to click “Save”, making your brainstorming sessions
readily available across multiple devices. OneNote 2013 allows you to grab screens and add them to your notebooks.
Skype Has Been Integrated. You can now integrate Skype contacts with Microsoft’s enterprise-oriented Lync communications platform
for calling and instant messaging. Office subscribers get 60 minutes of Skype international calls each month.
Going Social. Office now includes Yammer, a secure and private social network for businesses that Microsoft tentatively acquired.
Yammer integrates with SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics, the company’s line of CRM and enterprise resource planning apps. Office 2013′s People Card tool provides detailed information about your contacts, including their status updates from Facebook and LinkedIn.

Awesome!
Thanks for sharing the greate experience here. This is a good summary of Office 2013 cool features which is definitely useful for those who want to learn about the new Office.
Thanks,
Ethan Hua CHN
TechNet Community Support

Changing background theme on Office 2013 - too white or 2 shades of grey.

Is there a way to choose a color other than white, light grey, or dark grey as a background scheme for MS Office 2013?
If not, when will there be an update to address this issue?

They'll help you over here.
Office 2013 forums on Microsoft Answers
Regards, Dave Patrick ....
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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Ribbon Office 2013

Hello! I am using the following code for my program. I want it to look like Office 2013, you should only add the reference to the project that comes with WPF 4.5 and is System.Windows.Controls.Ribbon. I have a problem, when I select one tab, outline, not completed.
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen">
<Window.Resources>
<Style TargetType="Ribbon">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="White"/>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Black"/>


</Style>
<Style TargetType="RibbonGroup">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent"/>

</Style>
<Style TargetType="RibbonTabHeader">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="White"/>
<Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="Transparent"/>
<Setter Property="FontSize" Value="13"/>
<Setter Property="Padding" Value="15,2,15,2"/>
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="1,1,1,5"/>
<Setter Property="Margin" Value="1,0,1,0"/>
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="RibbonTabHeader">
<ControlTemplate.Resources>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="CheckedBackground" Color="#FFF5F6F7"/>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="CheckedBorderBrush" Color="#FFDBDCDD"/>

</ControlTemplate.Resources>
<Border Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}">
<ContentPresenter Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" RecognizesAccessKey="True"/>
</Border>
<ControlTemplate.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsRibbonTabSelected" Value="True">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="{DynamicResource CheckedBackground}"/>

<Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="#FFB9C9DA"/>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Blue"/>
</Trigger>
<Trigger Property="IsMouseOver" Value="True">



<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Blue"/>
</Trigger>

</ControlTemplate.Triggers>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid>
<Ribbon>
<RibbonTab Header="INICIO">
<RibbonGroup Header="Portapapeles">
<RibbonButton Label="Hola" LargeImageSource="Imágenes/Artículo.png" Height="Auto" VerticalAlignment="Top"/>
</RibbonGroup>
<RibbonGroup Header="Fuente">
<RibbonButton Content="Fuente"/>
</RibbonGroup>
</RibbonTab>
<RibbonTab Header="INSERTAR"/>
<RibbonTab Header="DISEÑO"/>
<Ribbon.ApplicationMenu>
<RibbonApplicationMenu SmallImageSource="Imágenes/Usuario.png">
<RibbonApplicationMenuItem Width="Auto" Header="Iniciar sesión..." ImageSource="Imágenes/Usuario.png"/>
<RibbonApplicationMenuItem Width="Auto" Header="Cambiar contraseña..." ImageSource="Imágenes/Usuario.png"/>
<RibbonApplicationMenuItem Width="Auto" Header="Cerrar sesión..." ImageSource="Imágenes/Usuario.png"/>
</RibbonApplicationMenu>
</Ribbon.ApplicationMenu>
</Ribbon>
</Grid>
</Window>
Attached 2 images, the first is what I get done, the other is what I would like.

Try this template: https://gist.github.com/drayde/75526b570a266f5f8f38
And I would suggest you trying this control: https://github.com/fluentribbon/Fluent.Ribbon
Best Regards,
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help

Office 2013 latest update broke new profile creation on all network computers

Hi,
Reporting a bug here!
Setup details:
We're using samba 3 as our backend and all workstation are Windows 7 Pro x64.
Office 2013 Home and Business Retail (en-us) Click 2 Run version
Context:
Deployed to the whole network of one of our client using the Office Deployement Tool.
We update their base update (no updates) to the latest update 15.0.4569.1508
Everything was working alright after initial Office 2013 installation with no updates. After updating the all the PCs to the latest version as of 31/03/2014, the user profile creation broke for newly created user.
Symptoms and causes:
Trying to log on as a new user on the machine would give the following error on Logon before automatically loging off because it cannot copy the following file to the new user profile:
D:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Bici\_00.sqm
D:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Bici\_01.sqm
D:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Bici\_02.sqm
The Bici folder has Read and Execute permissions for everyone but the _XX.sqm files inside only have permissions (Full Control) for SYSTEM and Administrators and LOCAL SERVICE with the all permissions EXCEPT:
- FULL CONTROL
- TRAVERSE FOLDERS/EXECUTE FILES
- CHANGE PERMISSIONS
- TAKE OWNERSHIP
Solution:
I gave "everyone" Read and Execute permission on those files and the new user could log in and his profile got created alright.
The files with broken permissions time stamp shows they've been modified during the Office 2013 update and Bici seems to be a OneDrive related service. This bug should get fixed ASAP.
Event log error:
Windows cannot copy file \\?\D:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Bici\_01.sqm to location \\?\D:\Users\TEMP\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Bici\_01.sqm. This error may be caused by network problems or insufficient security rights.
DETAIL - Access is denied.
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-User Profiles General" Guid="{DB00DFB6-29F9-4A9C-9B3B-1F4F9E7D9770}" />
<EventID>1509</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-04-04T07:15:51.922563800Z" />
<EventRecordID>9615</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="940" ThreadID="1764" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>F00241D1DAAAD</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-21-1582357797-4105456612-768596941-1206" />
</System>
- <EventData Name="EVENT_COPYERROR">
<Data Name="Source">\\?\D:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Bici\_01.sqm</Data>
<Data Name="Target">\\?\D:\Users\TEMP\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Bici\_01.sqm</Data>
<Data Name="Error">Access is denied.</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Hi dude,
I appreciate that your sharing your experience and solution here. And, I would report it through our internal channel. Thanks again.
Tony Chen
TechNet Community Support

Is it time yet for Microsoft to "Recall" Office 2013 and provide anyone who has a 2013 license a replacement Office 2010 license?

The interface is terrible and can't be changed. Every application in the suite locks up/crashes nearly constantly on any machine it is used on. The activation process is terrible and wastes hours of any support/IT dept's time. From a 'privacy
standpoint', the software is seemingly criminally intrusive. It is clearly a product that should never have been released and is so far from functional that it can't be repaired by any 'service pack', 'hotfix', or 'patch'. It needs to be completely
scrapped.
The only 'redeeming quality' of this software is that the guy who was in charge of creating it is gone from Microsoft. (Unfortunately, he is now President Obama's appointee for running the attempt at repairing the 'healthcare.gov' website...
out of the frying pan... )
When the software is installed using one profile (domain or machine account) and a different profile tries to use the software, it requires 're-activation' - which often fails because the software believes it has been installed multiple times. (This is particularly
frustrating because it has to be installed by an administrative user, but most of the time, the person who 'uses' the software is not the 'administrator' - so it is almost always being 'installed' using one profile and 'used' using another profile).
The necessary intrusion into privacy created by the requirement of a "Microsoft Account" to use the software is seemingly criminal.
The tracking of, and installation of licenses is absolutely ridiculous.
An example:
Many of my clients have many users and many computers (up to 75 or so).
I could create a "Microsoft User Account" for each 'user', but these machines get moved between users, and the software license is tied to the 'machine' and not to the 'user' so as soon as that happens, the licenses and the users are no longer
in line and become impossible to track.
I could create a "Microsoft User Account" for each 'computer'... and I can't even count the ways this would be a nightmare to try to track.
I actually did that up front for one client, and created Exchange email boxes for each computer so that "prove you are really you" emails from Microsoft could be received managed, and responded to, and passed out second usernames and passwords
to all of the users so they could "log-in" to their Office 2013 software, and created a database of the 'computer usernames and passwords' so I could track this... unfortunately, this confused the users (as it rightfully should) so they would change
the passwords for their computer's 'Microsoft User Account' thus locking me out and invalidating my database, ... and... CLUSTERF#%K!!!
As a 'best - worst case', I have had to create a single 'Microsoft User Account" for each of my clients' businesses so I can install and activate Office 2013 products. This is a whole new set of "Awesome Stupidity".
Now, I can put a new computer into a client's office and install their new license key for their oem Office 2013, and it shows up in the 'business's Microsoft User Account'. Then when I give the machine to the user, I get to 're-activate' the software
(hoping that it doesn't tell me to piss-off - which happens about 40% of the time. This is a process that can only be described as a "feat of engineering created by a group of monkeys whose former jobs included 'janitor at MAD magazine headquarters'
or 'beer-pong referee').
It starts with two hours of pressing phone buttons and ultimately talking to someone who tells me "yeah, nothin' I can do about that I'm just here for product activation" (which, incidentally, is done by machine until you pass through MS's ridiculous
labyrinth of repetitious keystroking until the machine is convinced you are just too stupid to punch in the right numbers and allows you to talk to a person... who then asks you for the exact same set of numbers and repeats back the exact same responding set
of numbers and acts dumbfounded when it still doesn't work - since it didn't work the first six times you punched or said it into the phone) followed by "I need to send you to the support group... but because it's 6:30 pm (in a process you started at
3:00pm) they are gone for the day and you'll have to call back on Monday morning"
At some point in the process, you get to log into the "Microsoft user account" and 'roll the roulette wheel of stupidity' by trying to activate the right software from a list of 40 different lines that all say "Microsoft Office 2013 Home and
Business oem", but none give any indicator or differentiating factor like for instance: license key, date installed, license key last 4 digits, mother's maiden name, phase of moon when software was first activated, color or type of blood of the user's
paperboy's dog's previous owner... NOTHING... RANDOM FREAKING STAB IN THE DARK - pick one, any one, hope its the license you are trying to install onto this machine, 'cause if not, you very well may kill the product on some other machine.
So through the process, the lucky support staff person gets' to waste roughly an hour and a half on average for every Microsoft Office 2013 installation. I have actually had to start telling my clients that they are going to likely have to pay an extra
$100 or so per machine in order to get their new Microsoft Office software which comes on their new computer activated - that number tends to work out roughly accurately - except that it is a terrible way of trying to 'please a client'.
Oh,... and did I mention... "THE SOFTWARE CONSISTANTLY FAILS"!?!
A client tries to open a document that they have been using for 8 years and Excel doesn't say "Hey, I don't know how to deal with some element of the file that you put in here using Excel 2003, or Office 2010 (both products, by the way, which worked
great) - no... instead,... it crashes. Doesn't really do any damage to the file it choked on, but the work you'd been doing on three other files which you also had open,... yeah,... that work is gone.
Yeah,.... over time, I have developed a pretty consistent spiel for client's needing new computers that goes over how absolutely terrible Office 2013 is, and explains that our options are further limited by Microsoft's yanking of all Office 2010 or previous
products from market availability, and explaining the merits of both LibreOffice and OpenOffice, as well as their drawbacks. I also have a strangely static response explaining how "larger companies are not burdened by these issues because they are
able to use MOPL which allows them to downgrade their productivity software to Office 2010 so they can continue to function happily, but this is really not a cost effective solution for smaller companies who primarily buy oem Office products with their replacement
computers".
Unfortunately, many clients still decide they want to go with Office 2013 because they apparently believe "it really can't be that bad". The value in my 'presale descriptions' are only really realized when they come back to me a week, two
weeks, or up to a month after the new machine is in place and say "wow,... you were right". The place I am left open for any further problems is when I don't impress upon them beforehand just HOW BAD OFFICE 2013 REALLY IS. In that case,
they still come back to me as though I have done something wrong foe selling them this piece of $#!% software and I have to remind them of our previous discussions.
Strangely, far too few heed the warnings and buy the software anyway - but the discussion has saved many clients the costs of Microsoft Project, because the discussion of LibreOffice and OpenOffice nearly always leads to at least a small philosophical conversation
about 'Open Source Software' in general, and my absolute favorite descriptive analogy in that discussion is to compare Microsoft Project at $600 v. ProjectLibre at $0 - and then further describe the costs of licensing and implementing the associated back-end
server solutions, etc.
This is a saving grace for me, because even though the client has been saddled with Office 2013, they have also saved substantially on Project and it is a rare (but granted, not absolutely absent) occasion that ProjectLibre is lacking some feature or function
that they actually need or want to use - and on those occasions, finding out has cost them absolutely nothing in software purchases.
Its not surprising, I suppose, that clients have grown to accept Office as a required 'cost', but still choke heavily on the price-tag of Project every time they have to buy it. The interesting thing to watch over the coming couple of years will be
'how many businesses stop accepting MS Office as a 'required cost' due to the failing of the software itself and the fact that most are being burned, at least once, by purchasing the software "against technical advice" and are learning, merely by
virtue of HOW BAD Office is, that there are other options out there that both cost less and work better... I mean,... LOTS BETTER.
How many businesses that are used to accepting the cost of Microsoft Office as a cost of doing business will be moved over to open source options and satisfied by them by the time Microsoft releases its next version - which will, presumably work - such that
they will no longer justify the cost of Microsoft's offering even if it is 'superior' to the open source offerings because the open source offerings are plenty sufficient and include a price tag of $0 and an installation/implementation time that is much, much
shorter than Microsoft's offering.
If Microsoft doesn't make some dramatic reparations, and do it soon, I expect their market share will be reduced in this area by a very significant margin.
I am suggesting either a 'Complete Recall' of Office 2013 including an 'uninstall 2013/install 2010' process driven by the automatic update engine, or at the very least, a free and easy downgrade rights offering for anybody who has already purchased 2013
and anyone who purchases it between now and the time the next "functional product" is released.

I understand the inconvenience you are experiencing when working with Office 2013.
If you have any feedback about Office 2013 product, click the and submit to Microsoft.
Microsoft will decide how to fix the problem for all customers.
For the activation mechanism, it intends to protect customers of their rights and interests.
For a retail version of Office, if it was purchased with a disk, Microsoft account is not necessary during the installation.
For volume license of Office, refer to the following link to deploy Office suites can be much efficient:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178982.aspx
For the problem Office 2013 keep crashing, check the following link to check:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2813143/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2758592/en-us
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Office 2013 Professional Plus - error 1653

Hi
I tried to install Office 2013 Professional Plus 64 bit on my Windows 8.1 Update 1 pro 64 bit Lenovo Thinkpad E530.
The MSI crashes after I deselected Lync and OneDrive for Business and selected Organigram for Powerpoint with the error code 1653 showing up on my Event Log.
The message in my Event Log looks like this:
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Windows Error Reporting" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1001</EventID>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-07-27T06:01:00.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>24997</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>sun</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>90226236923</Data>
<Data>5</Data>
<Data>OfficeClassicSetup</Data>
<Data>Not available</Data>
<Data>0</Data>
<Data>15.0.4454.1000</Data>
<Data>OSETUP.DLL</Data>
<Data>15.0.4569.1503</Data>
<Data>1653</Data>
<Data>Unspecified</Data>
<Data>FC73469E</Data>
<Data>1653</Data>
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data>C:\Users\Wenger\AppData\Local\Temp\SetupExe(2014072708001915DC).log C:\Users\Wenger\AppData\Local\Temp\SetupExe(201312051053101B60).log C:\Users\Wenger\AppData\Local\Temp\SetupExe(2014072707211315A8).log C:\Users\Wenger\AppData\Local\Temp\SetupExe(201407270727311814).log C:\Users\Wenger\AppData\Local\Temp\SetupExe(201407270734471130).log C:\Users\Wenger\AppData\Local\Temp\SetupExe(201407270741391118).log C:\Users\Wenger\AppData\Local\Temp\SetupExe(201407270748481BB0).log C:\Users\Wenger\AppData\Local\Temp\SetupExe(2014072708001915DC).log</Data>
<Data>C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\Report_15.0.4454.1000_df68ca3f8edd6e5681e49fd7574098be8eb1ae_00000000_15d80367</Data>
<Data />
<Data>0</Data>
<Data>5d904862-1553-11e4-beae-b888e3ddd920</Data>
<Data>0</Data>
<Data>d2963090adfe06bdd11d2f48d5050f44</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
What I've tried so far:
Used several fixitTools
Office 2007 Suite:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218#Method2
Office 2010 Suite:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301#Method2
And of course
Office 2013 Suite:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2739501
I even executed this PowerShell script to ensure that Rollback is disabled and the Microsoft Helper is deleted
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/How-to-fix-Office-af646d16
Note that my Microsoft Helper folder was not even there before I run the script.
The Rollback was enabled as I checked and I checked manually for another or the same installation to be listed in the Program Settings.
After several Reboots and run as Administrator and frustrations I came to you.
Could you help me please?
Thanks in advance
For additional information, I of course share them with you.

Hi,
The description of error 1653 is that you could not perform a multiple-package transaction because rollback has been disabled. Multiple-Package Installations cannot run if rollback is disabled. Available beginning with Windows Installer version 4.5.
According to error code 1653, I find a similar question about it. I address it here, you can follow Micrey’s suggestion to check if it works.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/f6501a3d-5c98-467b-9f48-3c6d20a454df/microsoft-office-professional-2013-encountered-an-error-during-setup?forum=officesetupdeploy
“The issue when you hit a "1653" is that Windows Installer "DisableRollback" is set. Office 2013 requires that "rollback" be enabled. If you are getting a "1653" error in your logs as Ken did then the solution is to delete the "DisableRollback" (or set to
'0') at the following registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer”
Regards,
Greta Ge
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

Office 2013 and MS Server 2008 R2

I see an increasingly number of people having trouble with office 2012 running on 2008 R2 RDS servers, but i still am yet to find any good solution from Microsoft themselves.
We now have two customers with 2008 R2 RDS servers and Office 2013, where users are reporting that Outlook is slow when opening messages, typing messages, searching in the mailbox and sometimes everything also freezes for a few seconds if they are working
with an Office application. Similar problems are also happening with Word and Excel.
We have tried all the usual tweaks so far:
Ajusting RDP-settings to 16-bit color and no animations.
Disabling hardware acceleration for Office.
Disabling animations reg-key.
The servers are all virtual, running on vmware on some of the latest hardware from dell, so resource-wise there should be no problem. Increasing memory and CPU is not helping at all anyway.
The customer we have that are running RDS on 2012 and 2012 R2 also had this problem, but adjusting the visual effects solved all problems for these. But not for those on 2008 R2.
I am stuck at the moment, and the frustration is rising at my customers. Does anyone actually have anything that solved this problem for them? Or do we actually have to roll back to Office 2010 (where we had no problems)?

Hi,
For Office 2013 there should not be any concerns since it is windows installer based and things will be handled automatically. For the other software you could simply put the session in install mode in every case. For the servers/workstations
where install mode doesn't apply the change user /install and change user /execute will simply fail without any harmful effects.
You may check whether or not the machine is a terminal server using WMI, for example:
wmic /namespace:\\root\CIMV2\TerminalServices PATH Win32_TerminalServiceSetting Get TerminalServerMode
0 = Remote Administration mode (not a RDSH/TS)
1 = Application Server mode (aka RDSH/Terminal server)
-TP
When I run the command from the command line, it works, but when I try it in a "IF" statement, nothing happens. I am I doing something wrong using the wmic code in the IF statement?

Printer driver hangs when printing with Office 2013/Windows 8 64 bit

Printer: HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi
Printer Driver: V5.1 (up to date, downloaded from HP support website) or Generic V5.6
OS: Windows 8 Professional 64bit
When I try to print a certain Excel document with Excel 2013 and printer driver V5.1, the program hangs and needs to be terminated via task manager. This happens always with the same document, but not with all documents. The program hangs also when opening the print preview for the same document.
The same document prints fine with the generic printer driver V5.6 and with the driver that comes with Windows 8.
The same document prints fine with driver V5.1 under Windows 7 and Office 2010. The combination Windows 7/Office 2013 was not tested. The combination Windows 8/Office 2010 was also not tested.
When I try to print an empty document with Word 2013 and generic printer driver V5.6, the program hangs and needs to be terminated via task manager.
My conclusion is that the HP printer drivers have a problem with either Windows 8 or Office 2013 or a combination of both.
The printer driver that comes with Windows 8 and is automatically installed is useful as a temporary workaround, but it lacks certain options, e.g. manual duplex.
On request, I am ready to send the Excel document by e-mail for verification of the problem.
Any help or suggestions will be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Uli
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From what you describe you are having issues printing from MS Office. Have you had trouble printing from other resources on your computer (e.g. from the internet or another program)? The first thing I am going to suggest is that we start by uninstalling and reinstalling the printer from the resources available online.
First if you use a USB cord, make sure to remove it (this is important). Do not plug it back in until the software directs you to. Then go through the Devices and Printers, Programs and Features and Device Manager folders and insure that all copies, files, and programs related to the printer are removed. Then as directed, restart the computer.
In the START menu type "%temp%" and press ENTER. Here I want you to press Ctrl+A and hit DELETE. Some of the files will not allow you to delete them, skip those files and delete the majority that allows it.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNameId=3562006&lang=en&cc=us...
Install that and let me know the result!
Have a great day!

Office 2013 with Visio and Project Error - Package manifest is invalid

In July I successfully created an App-V install of Office 2013 VL using the ODT. This week I decided to try just doing Visio as we don't install it or Project on all systems. I used my same customconfig.xml and just changed the ProPlusVolume to VisioProVolume
and changed the source path. Everything downloaded and packaged fine. I was able to import into SCCM just fine and create a deployment to my test collection. However when I run the install out of Software Center I get (as part of a much longer error) the message
in AppEnforce.log that the package manifest is invalid. Thinking that maybe I had to include Office as long with Visio I tried packaing all three items but still get the same error. Has anyone else seen this behavior and/or ideas how to fix it? Can I sequence
just Visio or just Project? I'm including my config.xml just in case I've got something wrong with it that I haven't caught. Thanks
<Configuration>
<Add SourcePath="<networkpath>\Microsoft\AppVOffice2013\Sept\" OfficeClientEdition="32" >
<Product ID="ProPlusVolume">
<Language ID="en-us" />
</Product>
<Product ID="VisioProVolume">
<Language ID="en-us" />
</Product>
<Product ID="ProjectProVolume">
<Language ID="en-us" />
</Product>
</Add>
<Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
<Logging Name="OfficeSetup.txt" Path="%temp%" />
<Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" />
</Configuration>

Hy. I'm having the same problema.
I'm trying to create na app-v package (v.5 SP2) of Office 2013.
I downloaded the Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-Run from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36778
I installed it into C:\Office2013pck shared that folder as
\\APPVMANAGER\Office2013 and mapped as Z:\.
I changed the configuration.xml file to:
<Configuration>
<Add OfficeClientEdition="32" >
<Product ID="ProPlusVolume">
<Language ID="en-us" />
</Product>
<Product ID="VisioProVolume">
<Language ID="en-us" />
</Product>
</Add>
</Configuration>
Then I ran in na elevated cmd:
>Z:
>\\APPV-CL-WIN7DEF\Office2013\setup.exe /download
\\APPV-CL-WIN7DEF\Office2013\configuration.xml
and
>\\APPV-CL-WIN7DEF\Office2013\setup.exe /packager
\\APPV-CL-WIN7DEF\Office2013\configuration.xml
\\APPV-CL-WIN7DEF\Office2013\Appv
Everything seemed to work fine.
The creted folder had Office\Data\15.0.4649.1001 folder (I guessed this is a version number)
When I tried to add the package to App-V Server (in the Console) I get the following error:
An unexpected error occurred while retrieving AppV package manifest. Windows error code: 1465 - Windows was unable to parse the requested XML data.
I tryied to publish it from powershell, getting the same error message agalluci image post shows.
From the Event Log I got this additional information:
There was a problem retrieving the requested package \\APPVMANAGER\AppVpck\Office\VisioProVolume_ProPlusVolume_en-us_x86.appv for import. Error message: Unspecified error
Element '{http://schemas.microsoft.com/appv/2010/manifest}UsedKnownFolders' is unexpected according to content model of parent element '{http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2010/manifest}Package'.
I haven't found any indication of which file is the manifest app-v file.
I also haven't found any .xml with the "UsedKnownFolders" tag (I changed the .appv package extension to .zip and explored some of the files).
I tryied creating a package for 32 and 64 bits, only office, office and visio, and office visio and project running Windos 7 and Windows 2012.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Office 2013 converting to app-v gives xml error in manifest file

Hello,
I'm trying to create na app-v package (v.5 SP2) of Office 2013.
I downloaded the Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-Run from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36778
I installed it into C:\Office2013pck shared that folder as
\\APPVMANAGER\Office2013 and mapped as Z:\.
I changed the configuration.xml file to:
<Configuration>
<Add OfficeClientEdition="32" >
<Product ID="ProPlusVolume">
<Language ID="en-us" />
</Product>
<Product ID="VisioProVolume">
<Language ID="en-us" />
</Product>
</Add>
</Configuration>
Then I ran in na elevated cmd:
>Z:
>\\APPV-CL-WIN7DEF\Office2013\setup.exe /download \\APPV-CL-WIN7DEF\Office2013\configuration.xml
and
>\\APPV-CL-WIN7DEF\Office2013\setup.exe /packager \\APPV-CL-WIN7DEF\Office2013\configuration.xml \\APPV-CL-WIN7DEF\Office2013\Appv
Everything seemed to work fine.
The creted folder had Office\Data\15.0.4649.1001 folder (I guessed this is a version number)
When I tried to add the package to App-V Server (in the Console) I get the following error:
An unexpected error occurred while retrieving AppV package manifest. Windows error code: 1465 - Windows was unable to parse the requested XML data.
From the Event Log I got this additional information:
There was a problem retrieving the requested package \\APPVMANAGER\AppVpck\Office\VisioProVolume_ProPlusVolume_en-us_x86.appv for import. Error message: Unspecified error
Element '{http://schemas.microsoft.com/appv/2010/manifest}UsedKnownFolders' is unexpected according to content model of parent element '{http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2010/manifest}Package'.
I tryied creating a package for 32 and 64 bits, only office, office and visio, and office visio and project.
I haven't found any indication of which file is the manifest app-v file.
I also haven't found any .xml with the "UsedKnownFolders" tag (I changed the .appv package extension to .zip and explored some of the files).
So... what's happening?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Sounds like the same issue as this thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/98e5508b-7898-4b2b-b24d-3fd0194bbbc7/office-2013-with-visio-and-project-error-package-manifest-is-invalid?forum=mdopappv
What I would suggest is try to add the package manually via powershell, and if you get the same error post in the above forum so its in the same place.

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