With the release of latest LibreOffice I had to move most of my windows users from old openoffice to new libreoffice.
This turns out very simple with the use of few windows commands.
Here 192.168.3.2\soft_deploy is public share, which is to dump libreoffice installer.
Uninstall OpenOffice
wmic product where name="OpenOffice.org 3.2" call uninstall /nointeractive |
Install Libreoffice
msiexec /qn /i \\192.168.3.2\soft_deploy\libre\libre_setup.msi REGISTER_ALL_MSO_TYPES=1 |
Configuration
If you wish to save all office files with default MS office extensions,
Install libreoffice
Change saving options from –> Tools –> Options –> Load/Save –> General
Change always save as for Text / Spreadsheet / Presentation
This will generate file in below location, which you can use to copy in other machines, to change default save options.
%appdata%\libreoffice\3\user\registrymodifications.xcu |
You can save followings as batch to run on other users.
cd %appdata% cd libreoffice\3\user xcopy /e /c /y \\192.168.3.2\soft_deploy\libre\config |
here registrymodifications.xcu is stored in \\192.168.3.2\soft_deploy\libre\config
You can use following commands to uninstall apps using command prompt
WMIC product get name product where name="" call uninstall |