Excellent information, all of you! Thanks for your help.
I am not in the office today - off to the UK for 10 days to convert them from NT4 Domain/Ex5.5/small fileserver to our corporate Win2k3 domain/E2k3/large file server. When I get back, I'll start on this. Kurt On 2/12/08, Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I note a discussion from March of last year about MSI packagers, but > want to revisit the issue. > > We had a fellow (who no longer works here, though not because of this > issue) using the WinInstall LE package try to build an MSI for > MSOffice 2003, and it was a miserable failure on the one desktop in > production he tried it on - the Controller's PC. Ouch. And it took him > a couple of weeks, if not longer, to actually produce this package. > Double ouch. > > Now my IT Director is a bit gun-shy on my asking to get one of my > juniors involved in building an MSI package for MSOffice 2003 - he's > afraid that it will take forever and not work well. > > I'm fairly certain it can't be *that* hard, if the proper tools are used. > > Can anyone point me in a good direction for the proper software and > decent directions on how to do this? Bonus points if it includes > directions on how to deploy via GPO, but I'll take a file that the > end-user can click on and have it install. > > Kurt > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
