Copy downloaded Office updates from desktop to laptop?

[James0007]

I just installed Office Standard on my XP desktop machine and it did its
thing and downloaded all the necessary updates and service packs. I haven't
let it install the updates yet; they're still in the
"C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download" directory.

Since I'm also going to install this edition of Office on my Vista laptop,
can I just copy these Office updates from the desktop machine onto the laptop
rather than having to download them all over again? Or will this mess up
something in the registry or cause some licensing confusion for the Office
installation routines?

 

[LVTravel]

I just installed Office Standard on my XP desktop machine and it did its
thing and downloaded all the necessary updates and service packs. I
haven't
let it install the updates yet; they're still in the
"C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download" directory.

Since I'm also going to install this edition of Office on my Vista laptop,
can I just copy these Office updates from the desktop machine onto the
laptop
rather than having to download them all over again? Or will this mess up
something in the registry or cause some licensing confusion for the Office
installation routines?

If you used the Microsoft Update utility then the objects can not readily be
copied to the other machine. If you downloaded the updates from the MS
Download center then yes, that is what they are designed to have done with
them, download once and then use to update many computers.