This Office tutorial, we will discuss how to solve We’re sorry Microsoft Office installer encountered a problem because you have there click to run installer based office programs installed on your computer error.
While installing SharePoint 2016 in a windows server r2 machine. I have recently installed Windows server 2012 R2 then I installed Visual Studio 2015 and then installed Office Professional 2016 in the same machine successfully. Then when I try to install SharePoint Server 2016, I got the error like below:
We’re sorry Microsoft Office installer encountered a problem because you have there click to run installer based office programs installed on your computer
We’re sorry Microsoft Office installer encountered a problem because you have there click to run installer based office programs installed on your computer.
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 – en-us
Windows Installer and Click-to-Run editions of Office programs don’t get along for this version, so you can only have one type installed at a time. Please try installing the Click-to-run edition of Office instead, or uninstall your other Click-to-Run based Office programs and try this installation again. It appears like below:
I am not saying this as a solution but for me installing SharePoint 2016 was on priority, So I uninstalled my Office Professional plus and then trying installing SharePoint server 2016 and then it installed successfully.
After installing SharePoint 2016, I again try to install Office Professional Plus 2016, but as expected the same error came. The error came as:
We found a problem!
We’re sorry Microsoft Office installer encountered a problem because you have there click to run installer based office programs installed on your computer.
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016
Click-to-Run and Windows Installer editions of Office programs don’t get along for this version, so you can only have one type installed at a time. Please try installing the Click-to-run edition of Office instead, or uninstall your other Click-to-Run based Office programs and try this installation again.
According to this Office Post, Office installed using Click-to-Run and Window Installer on the same computer isn’t supported.
So here I have installed Office 2013 on the same SharePoint server.
I am Bijay from Odisha, India. Currently working in my own venture TSInfo Technologies in Bangalore, India. I am Microsoft Office Servers and Services (SharePoint) MVP (5 times). I works in SharePoint 2016/2013/2010, SharePoint Online Office 365 etc. Check out My MVP Profile.. I also run popular SharePoint web site SPGuides.com
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