embed office Key inside the CD

[Fahad]

Dear All

How can I incorporate the product key of office 2003 in the CD itself. then
I will burn the office file to a new CD and give this CD to our technical
support staff to be used for installation. I don't want to insert the product
key any more during the installatin.

thanks

 

[Eric A.]

The easiest way for your purpose is to add it to the setup.ini file.

You will want to look in the setup folder. For example...e:\files\setup

In the setup folder you could have a few different .ini files. You want the
one that corresponds with the name of your setup.

For example if your main setup is setup.exe, then modify the setup.ini. If
you are using a VL version that has many setup.exe and you wanted to install
Office Pro that has a setuppro.exe, then you would modify the setuppro.ini.

Anyway.. after you determine which .ini in the setup folder to modify, add
the line
PIDKEY="123456789134567891345679"

Then when you run setup it will use the key in the setup.ini.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011401951033.aspx



As an alterative method you could also create a .mst file with the Custom
Installation wizard in the ORK
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011401701033.aspx