"Daniel Kruszyna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you use "setup.exe /a" to populate the packages/office* > directories instead of just copying over files from the cd, you > don't even have to do this. The installer incorporates the key into > the install point somehow. I deleted the PIDKEY reference in > officexp.bat, and it installs fine. (we also have the volume license > version).
This will definitely only work a volume license. But even then, I am not a fan of the "administrative installation point". I like my applications installed the old-fashioned way, one complete installation done once on each machine, with updates applied later on each machine as needed. I do not see why Office should be different from every other application, and I think the entire design where Office requires unpredictable access to its installation media is just broken. And if you install Office from an administrative installation point, you cannot apply updates yourself; you must obtain them by doing a "repair" from an updated installation point. I find this extremely annoying (and with Office 2000, I found it extremely buggy). Perhaps if I worked in an environment with very tight administrative control of our workstations, it would not be so bad... But in such an environment, I might just use RIS. I realize I am not doing things the way Microsoft suggests. But it works; when I use my officexp.bat script, everything gets installed and the Office Update site agrees that everything is up-to-date. This is one of several cases where I "respectfully" disagree with Microsoft. - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
