Command-Line Switches For Office Patches

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Does anyone know the Command-Line switches that can be used with Office
patches that utilize ohotfix.exe? I'm trying to deploy them silently via
SMS but the /q switch no longer forces a silent install.

Example command: Office2000-kb830347-client-enu.exe /q

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi J.T.,

See if the information in this article helps:
http://microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/journ/Ohotfix.htm
along with this portion of the SMS guide
http://microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2/maintain/operate/smssusgd.asp
on using the .ini file. The individual hotfix update
documentation with the update should contain the syntax
and switches supported for the specific update.


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Does anyone know the Command-Line switches that can be used with Office
patches that utilize ohotfix.exe? I'm trying to deploy them silently via
SMS but the /q switch no longer forces a silent install.

Example command: Office2000-kb830347-client-enu.exe /q >>
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[Tom H]

Yes I saw this. However I was hoping MS still provided a way just to do a
silent install with their native downloaded exe. To do it like this
requires someone to disassemble every patch exe and update the OHOTFIX.INI
or extract the MSP. Why should "we" be required to do this, I don't have to
do this for any OS or IE patch? The documented "/q" quiet switch should
work and install quiet but does it - no.

 

[PS]

Does anyone know the Command-Line switches that can be used with Office
patches that utilize ohotfix.exe? I'm trying to deploy them silently via
SMS but the /q switch no longer forces a silent install.

Example command: Office2000-kb830347-client-enu.exe /q

Kevin-

Have you tried the following yet?

/q:a

Its a bit different than /q:

/q Use Quiet mode (no user intervention).
/q:a Use Administrator-Quiet mode. This mode does not present any dialog
boxes to the user.

Good Luck
PS

 

[Tom H]

Yes...says it is an invalid switch

Kevin-

Have you tried the following yet?

/q:a

Its a bit different than /q:

/q Use Quiet mode (no user intervention).
/q:a Use Administrator-Quiet mode. This mode does not present any dialog
boxes to the user.

Good Luck
PS

 

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Does anyone know the Command-Line switches that can be used with
Office patches that utilize ohotfix.exe?
Yes.

I'm trying to deploy them silently via SMS but the /q switch no
longer forces a silent install.

Example command: Office2000-kb830347-client-enu.exe /q

These are "IExpress" installers with a bundled .msp (MSI patch) file.
Unpack each hotfix by hand to find the name of the .msp file it
contains, then use the /c:... switch to invoke msiexec on that file.

For general principles of IExpress installers, see
<http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html#hotfixes>.

Using 830347 as an example, you can install it in unattended mode like
this:

Office2000-kb830347-client-enu.exe /q /c:"msiexec /qb /p WINWORDop.msp REBOOT=ReallySuppress"

For completely silent installation, replace /qb with /qn in the
switches to msiexec.

For more on Office 2000 unattended installation, including a link to
the script I use to install Office and all of its hotfixes, see
<http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html#office2k>.

- Pat