I think Dan has the right idea here. You should be able to create a transform that can detect whether Office is already installed. MSI supports so-called LaunchConditions that allow a variety of conditional statements, such as "NOT Installed" to be executed prior to the installation. You should be able to put this into the transform via the CIW. The challenge here is that it will only be true if the MSI product code is identical between the machines where Office has been installed and the package that you are deploying via GPO. Sometimes MSI product codes differ, even between the same versions of Office, so you might have an issue with that.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan DeStefano Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Office deployments via GPO I believe you can control this behavior via the Office 2003 Custom Installation Wizard, which is part of the o2k3 resource kit toolbox: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/e/d/0eda9ae6-f5c9-44be-98c7-ccc 3016a296a/ork.exe. Dan DeStefano -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 7:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Office deployments via GPO We have many desktops that we want to deploy Office 2003 to, and some of them already have Office 2003. Seperating which ones do and don't would be difficult, so we want to apply the GPO to a whole list of computers and let it deploy. The problem is, if they already have Office 2003 on the workstations, it deploys over top of it anyway, and this could cause Outlook or some other issues. Is there any way to get the GPO to detect if O2K3 is already installed and skip deployment if so? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information of the Cooper Cameron Corporation and its operating Divisions and may be confidential or privileged. This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only by the addressee. If you have received this message in error please delete it, together with any attachments, from your system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
