Automated / Unattended outlook installation

[harry dass]

Im looking for a way to install msoffice to 50 users, but want to avoid
having my users to click through the menus and seeing the cdkey etc. Im
looking for something thats similar to an answers file in a unattended
windows installation, but for ms outlook instead. heres more details:

- The user will execute the installer themselves
- Its in a workgroup enviroment, not domain enviroment
- All share the same cdkey
- Just the installation needs to be automated, the rest of the account
configuration will be done manually.

Any ideas how to do this? I'd hate to have to key the cdkey in 50 times

 

[Greg Mansius [MSFT]]

Harry,

All 50 users will not be able to use the same CD Key. When the 3rd or 4th
user attempts to activate their copy of Office/Outlook they will fail
because you can only activate a certain number of machines with Office
installed.

What you need is a volume license that allows you to create an
administrative installation point. From there, you can install Office using
a quiet mode switch.

For licensing questions, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/licensing

For deployment questions, please go to the Office Resource Kit. You can find
a link to each version of the Office Resource Kit at
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb310612.aspx If you have any
further questions about the Office Resource Kit or deployment questions like
this, please post a new question to the Office Setup newsgroup.

--
Thanks

greg mansius [MSFT]
Microsoft Office Outlook Support

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[harry dass]

ok, i got the outlook licences via small business server 03, so im gettimg
them to install it and carry on using mail before i migrate them into the
domain

i managed to create a bat file for them to run, and it seems to work for me

msiexec /i OUTLS11.MSI INSTALLLOCATION=C:\OUTLOOK PIDKEY="cdkeyhere"
USERNAME=blabla COMPANYNAME=blabla USERINITIALS=blabla /passive