1 Make a adminstrative install of office on a server, and then use that install to install office on clients. This will give you the options to setup company-name and licens key. 2 Make a transform, 3 Make a bat-file with the following text: "Path to MSI" TRANSFORM="Path to MST" +qn
This will give you a silent installation with no userinput required Peter Graversen Denmark -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Woods, Tony MHR:EX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sendt: 3. juli 2002 00:13 Til: NT 2000 Discussions Emne: RE: Office 2K auto install Oh, I think you have to add it at the end where you can specify all kinds of things. It's called PIDKEY. I'll send you the document off-line... Cheers, Tony -----Original Message----- From: Elkins.Justin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:08 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Office 2K auto install Tony, I used the CIW to build the MST file but never saw an option to put in the PID code. I will rerun and see if I can find it. Thank you, -----Original Message----- From: Woods, Tony MHR:EX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:07 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Office 2K auto install I'm no James, but... [;-) You can use the CIW (Custom Installation Wizard) to build the MST (Transform) file. In this file, you can specify all kinds of custom office settings, including the PID code. Cheers, Tony -----Original Message----- From: Elkins.Justin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:01 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Office 2K auto install James, This worked nice in the lab but after the install I am prompted for the License code. Do I need to create an .msi with this info? Can you give me the name of the tool I do this with. Thanks again, Justin -----Original Message----- From: Elkins.Justin Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:32 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Office 2K auto install Good advice thanks. -----Original Message----- From: James Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:10 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Office 2K auto install Make sure you do lots of testing in a lab environment before you attempt to implement throughout your office. Especially with something like this. All you really need are a couple of computers to be test dummies. James Winzenz, MCSE, A+ Associate Systems Administrator Peregrine Connectivity, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Elkins.Justin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:48 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Office 2K auto install James, This sounds just like just what I want to do. It will take me a couple of day's to learn all of what is involved as I have never done anything like this before. I will write in to let everyone know how it went. Thank you, Justin -----Original Message----- From: James Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 10:07 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Office 2K auto install Office 2000 comes already outfitted with an .msi. In addition, you can use the Custom Installation Wizard to customize your installation of Office. I would suggest doing an administrative install of office first so that you have it on your server. Then you should be able to call the .msi in their logon scripts, or at the very least, create a separate batch file for your users to double-click. Your entry for running office 2000 setup should look something like this: Msiexec /i "\\servername\share\data1.msi" /qb (only simple interface box shows up, progress is not shown) /t <name of transform>.mst plus a few other switches. You will probably want to map a network drive first, then go to the drive letter mapped before running the command. If you do that, you wouldn't need the path to the share in the line. If you don't, when you specify the transform (if you do that) you would need to include the path for it as well. The CIW creates the transform (.mst) to be used for the customized installation. This will need an updated version of the windows installer for the 95 boxes, though, most likely. You will find that in the msi folder of your administrative install. Run instmsiw on the 95 boxes that need it, and they should be all set. I have personally not done this via a script or anything, just from a command line, but it should be the same in theory. Here's some additional info on command-line switches for Office 2k: http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q202946 James Winzenz, MCSE, A+ Associate Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Elkins.Justin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:15 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: Office 2K auto install Hello, I have about 150 machines that I need to upgrade to Office 2k. The clients range from NT, 2K and 98. I don't have SMS or AD. Does anyone have any suggestion as to the easiest way to install Office. Would I be able to create an .MSI and call that from a logon script? Would you be able to recommend where I could get info on creating an .MSI file. Right now the only thing I know how to do is walk around to every machine and I am trying to learn every way possible to not have to do that. 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