Additional Office deployment notes
Here are some additional notes from my original posting for Office Deployment
Staging files
- You
can stage the office install files on a client by doing the following:
- Open
the Product.ww\Config.XML and un rem this line
- <!--
<LIS CACHEACTION="CacheOnly" /> -->
- Then
run Setup on the client and it will cache the files on the system but it
will not install office. Use this command:
- Path\Setup.exe
/config \\path\Config.xml
- To
later install office use this command
- C:\MSOCache\{Product
Guid}\Setup.exe
Uninstalling office
See this KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218
Add additional programs
to the install
This example shows how to install SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe
- First
extract the MSI from SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe
- Commandline: SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe
/extract
- Save the MSI to a location you
can access from the install
- Open the
Product.ww\Config.XML and un-REM this line
- <!-- <Command Path="msiexec.exe"
Args="/i \\server\share\my.msi" QuietArg="/q"
ChainPosition="after" Execute="install" /> -->
- Change
the line to read like this:
<Command
Path="msiexec.exe" Args="/i \\server\share\ExPdfXps.msi"
QuietArg="/quiet" ChainPosition="after"
Execute="install" />
- Save
changes
- Execute
setup with the /config switch and point to the config file.
How to edit the Config.xml
file in the 2007 Office system
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179195.aspx