Deploying Office 2007
I just spent 3 days in office 2003 Deployment training and here is what I took out of the 3 days of training. This training isn't offered to everyone so I asked if it was ok to share this info and I was told that everything we received was public knowledge so I hope this helps others out.
Office 2007 installation and deployment notes
First thing to know is that Office 2007 no longer has to use an admin share. Instead you just create a source folder and copy all of the office products and language packs to that folder. Office 2007 is self repairing because it puts a copy of the install on the C drive under the MSOCache folder. So if it needs to do a repair is doesn't need to go out to the network to get the source.
Here are the highlights of what I got from the class
Creating the source folder
- Office 2007 is language neutral
- All office Language files and folders get placed in the same directory as the source folders
- Source folders are
- Admin
- Catalog
- Update
- Product.WW
- Language packs are Product.EN-US or Product.FR-FR (ETC)
- All office source files can be places in the same directory
- Office
- Visio
- OneNote
- Publisher
- ETC
- Note: When you copy other products be sure to choose NOT to over right just add files and folders.
- Before trying to deploy get the latest Admin tool here
Deployment
- If you want to just deploy the product without tweaking it just edit the Config.xml file located in the Product.WW folder.
- To edit the XML file simply remove the < !-- and --> from the line that you want to use.
- Note: DO NOT EDIT the following as they are protected by Hash MD5 and will not work if altered
- Setup.XML
- Product.XML
- (XXX)MUI.XML
- If you want to install Office 2007 with a custom install use the following command
- Setup.exe /Admin
- After running the installation wizard save the msp file in the update folder.
- After creating your MSP just run Setup.exe to install Office
- Note: if you choose to run the install silently make sure you put an installation PID in or the install will fail
- Install logs can be found in the %temp% folder
- Go to Run and type %temp% and it will open the correct folder
Repair and other commands
- To repair an install run C:\MSOCache\Setup.exe /repair (Porduct ID)
- To get help run C:\MSOCache\Setup.exe /?
- To extract any updates run native self extractor by running this command
- Product.exe /extract
- Save the extracted MSP file to the updates folder. Make sure that you overright any existing files so that you get the latest updates when you do the install.
I got a lot more out of the class but these are the highlights. If you get a chance to take this class, go for it.
Additional notes can be found here
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/cstauffer/archive/2008/04/11/additional-office-deployment-notes.aspx