Deploy an Office Online Server Environment using PowerShell DSC

In this article we will cover the process of automating the configuration of an Office Online Server 2016 (OOS) using PowerShell Desired State Configuration. The end result will be a fully working OOS environment that has the French Language Pack installed on. Language pack support is something new I recently added to the OfficeOnlineServerDSC module and which will be available starting with version 1.1.0.0 scheduled to be released on December 20th of 2017.

Prerequisites

In my case, I will be starting with a brand new Windows Server 2016 virtual machine on which I downloaded the installation binaries for OOS, as well as the French language pack. The installation media will be stored in a folder right at the root of my c:\ drive at C:\OOSInstall\:

The Language Packs executables need to be extracted in order for the new OfficeOnlineServerInstallLanguagePack resource to be able to do its job. In my case, I downloaded the French Language Pack from MSDN and stored it into C:\OOSLP\:

In order to extract the content of the Language Packs, we need to call the .exe file with /extract:. In my case I will be calling the following:

C:\OOSLP\fr_office_online_server_language_pack_march_2017_x64_10267265.exe /extract:C:\OOSLP

this will result in the following set of files to be extracted in our folder:

IMPORTANT!!!At the time of publishing this article, OfficeOnlineServerDSC 1.1.0.0 is not yet available on the PowerShell Gallery, therefore you will need to manually acquire it from https://www.GitHub.com/PowerShell/OfficeOnlineServerDSC.

DSC Script

One we have this in place, we are ready to go ahead and execute our DSC configuration script and let the magic happen:

Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force -Confirm:$false
Install-Module OfficeOnlineServerDSC -RequiredVersion 1.1.0.0 -Force -Confirm:$false -EA SilentlyContinue

Configuration OOS
{
    Import-DscResource -ModuleName OfficeOnlineServerDSC -ModuleVersion 1.1.0.0

    Node localhost
    {
        WindowsFeature WebServer
        {
            Name = "Web-Server"
            Ensure = "Present"
            IncludeAllSubFeature = $true
        }

        OfficeOnlineServerInstall OOSInstall
        {
            Ensure = "Present"
            Path = "C:\OOSInstall\setup.exe"
            DependsOn = "[WindowsFeature]WebServer"
        }

        OfficeOnlineServerInstallLanguagePack FrenchLP
        {
            Ensure = "Present"
            BinaryDir = "C:\OOSLP\"
            Language = "fr-fr"
            DependsOn = "[OfficeOnlineServerInstall]OOSInstall"
        }

        OfficeOnlineServerFarm FarmConfig
        {
            InternalUrl = "http://localhost"
            AllowHttp = $true
        }
    }
}

OOS

Start-DSCConfiguration OOS -Wait -Force -Verbose