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My Windows Home Server is headless (i.e. it doesn have an attached monitor, keyboard, and mouse) and/or it doesn contain a CD/DVD drive so how do I install Microsoft Outlook/Office onto it?

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My Windows Home Server is headless (i.e. it doesn have an attached monitor, keyboard, and mouse) and/or it doesn contain a CD/DVD drive so how do I install Microsoft Outlook/Office onto it?

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If your WHS machine is headless, then you’ll need to install Microsoft Outlook/Office using a Remote Desktop Connection to your WHS from one of your client computers (i.e. from one of the computers on which you’ve installed the Windows Home Server Connector software). For the steps on how to make a Remote Desktop Connection to your WHS machine, please see the following We Got Served Wiki: Remote Access to Windows Home Server If your WHS doesn’t have a CD/DVD drive, then you’ll also need to extract ALL of the installation files and folders from your Microsoft Outlook/Office installation CD/DVD into one of the shared folders on your WHS machine (such as \\[SERVERNAME]\Software) so that you can access the installation files from there.