Office Customization Tool Missing

My Technet Subscription only gives me access to a Retail version of Microsoft Office 15. So no, Office Customization Tool. Running setup.exe /admin confirmed that with the error message: 

Files necessary to run the Office Customization Tool were not found. Run Setup from the installation point of a qualifying product.

Files necessary to run the Office Customization Tool were not found. Run Setup from the installation point of a qualifying product.

However, you can easily fix this by downloading the Office 2013 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool. Run the executable and let it extract to a temporary location.

Copy the admin folder to the installation source of Office 2013 and setup.exe /admin will start the Office Customization Tool.

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