Pc Windows Tips

You can update the source files for Office with the Microsoft Office Service Packs and Updates you need. These updates can later be burned to a CD or copied to a network share for distribution. It saves a lot of time not needing to manually apply all the service packs after installation.

Overview
There are basically three steps to slipstreaming a Service Pack into an Office Installation:

1. Do an Office Administrative Install to a Hard Drive
2. Download and Extract the Service Pack
3. Finally Applying the Service Pack to the Office Install Directory

Administrative Install

1. Create a directory on your hard drive where you want to do the install (e.g. C:\OFFICE)
2. Do an administrative install of Office to a directory on your hard drive (x::setup.exe /a)
3. You don’t need to enter in the license at this point
4. When prompted, place it in a C:\OFFICE directory
5. Click on the Install Now button
6. It will look like it is doing a regular install but the files will be copied to the C:\OFFICE
7. Download and Apply Service Packs
8. Download the Office Administrator Service Pack updates from Microsoft Update website.
9. Extract it to a C:\UPDATE directory (again, this is only as an example)

Office 2000

1. “Service Pack 1″ SR1 Download, “Service Pack 2″ SP2 Download
2. Extract the DATA1.EXE file to C:\UPDATE (data1.msp)
3. Start / Run
4. msiexec /a c:\office\data1.msi/p c:\update\data1.msp  SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb
5. msiexec /a c:\office\data1.msi /p c:\update\Sp2admin.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1
6. Be sure to repeat for any additional extracted msp files

Outlook 2000 Security Update

1. Outlook 2000 Security Download
2. Extract the three MSP file to the Update directory
3. Start / Run
4. msiexec /a c:\office\Data1.msi /p C:\Update\OQFE7082_Client.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1
5. msiexec /a c:\office\Data1.msi /p C:\Update\OQFE7140_Client.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1
6. msiexec /a c:\office\Data1.msi /p C:\Update\OQFE7160_Client.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1

Office XP

1. “Service Pack 1″, SP1 Download, “Service Pack 2″, SP2 Download.
2.  Extract the files to the Update directory
3. Start / Run
4. msiexec /p c:\update\MAINSP1_Admin.msp /a c:\office\your.msi SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE
   (where your.msi file is the actual one depending on the version of Office XP (PROPLUS.MSI, SBERET.MSI)
5. Be sure to repeat for any additional extracted msp files

All you need to do is create a new CD with the updated source files and use this for future installations.

Shawn DesRochers