Access 2003 Service Pack 2 Attempts to reinstall

[Nathan]

We have a network installation of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. After
successfully installing service pack 2, any attempts to run Access causes it
to begin an installation process that reports a successful installation.
Access 2003 Service Pack 2 will not run at all.

The network contains a mix of Windows 2000 Pro and Server, Windows 2003
Server and Windows XP Pro. There have been no issues with Serivce Pack 1 and
the problems seem to be independant of Operating systems. I recieve the same
results with all of the windows installations.

Any suggestions on how I can get Access 2003 Service Pack 2 up and running?

 

[Wayne Morgan]

I've always slipstreamed the SP into the network installation point then
pushed the SP by doing a reinstall of Office on the computers running
Office.

To slipstream the SP into the installation point, you have to extract the
files from the SP exe to get the msp files out of it. You will need the
FullFile (i.e. administrative) version of the patch to do this. The msp
files in the archive are MAINSP2ff.msp, OWC11SP2ff.msp, and
OWC102003SP2ff.msp. They can be extracted by opening the archive in WinZip
or by running the archive with the appropriate switches. From the command
line, use ArchiveName /? to get the list of options.

Once you have the msp files, use the following command lines to incorporate
them into the install point.

msiexec /a <path>\Pro11.msi /p <path>\MAINSP2ff.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1 /qb-

msiexec /a <path>\OWC11.msi /p <path>\OWC11SP2ff.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1 /qb-

The third msp file is to update the Office XP (2002) OWC msi. You won't need
it if all you have is Office 2003.

Once this has been done, use the following command line on each computer to
do the reinstall. This can be done by logon script or other method that you
may have to do a one time execution.

msiexec /i <path>\pro11.msi REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus /qb-

The <path> in all of the above statements can be any legal path, such as a
local drive and folder or a UNC path.