error: product key on patching admin. install

[Mike]

Copied Office 2003 Pro CD up to network share.
Used to deploy via Active Directory using the .MSI and a transform (.MST).

Works great.

Now - I'm trying to patch the darn thing.
Frustration.

After weeding through many arcane MS pages, I finally landed on a 3rd party
site that explained it in plain english.

Here is what I'm doing, but it is giving me the error "You have not
specified a valid product key...." etc. Where do I install it?? We have
the volume license, and I originally entered it in using the CIW when
creating the .MST. MSIEXEC doesn't know to read this I guess and is
wondering where it is. How do I tell it what my key is so I can patch this
admin share?

Here's my process:

To extract:
Office2003SP1-kb842532-fullfile-enu.exe /t:c:\Office2003SP1 /c

To apply:
msiexec /p mainsp1ff.msp /a \\fileserver1\office\2003\pro11.msi /qb

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Ryan Asdourian [MSFT]]

I'm not sure this will work because it is usually used in the main install
command line but you can try adding
PIDKEY=AAAAABBBBBCCCCCDDDDDEEEEE
in your command line...

Thanks,
Ryan

 

[Mike]

Thanks - can't get it to work though..... :-(

I'm not sure this will work because it is usually used in the main install
command line but you can try adding
PIDKEY=AAAAABBBBBCCCCCDDDDDEEEEE
in your command line...

Thanks,
Ryan

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Mike,

I'm not quite sure I'm clear on all of your steps.
You mention patching an admin share, but also that
you copied the CD. To create a patchable Office Admin
Point you'd use Setup /A and enter the volume license
key at that time.

If you did follow that process then, with the .MSP file
outside of the Admin share try using this command to patch
it, using fully qualified paths for the patch and
the Admin point and see what results are in the log file.
msiexec.exe /p [path\name of update MSP file]/a [path\name of MSI file] /qb /lv* [path\name of log file]
More on http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402381033.aspx======== << "Mike" <[email protected]>
wrote in message Copied Office 2003 Pro CD up to network share.
Used to deploy via Active Directory using the .MSI and a transform (.MST).

Works great.

Now - I'm trying to patch the darn thing.
Frustration.

After weeding through many arcane MS pages, I finally landed on a 3rd party
site that explained it in plain english.

Here is what I'm doing, but it is giving me the error "You have not
specified a valid product key...." etc. Where do I install it?? We have
the volume license, and I originally entered it in using the CIW when
creating the .MST. MSIEXEC doesn't know to read this I guess and is
wondering where it is. How do I tell it what my key is so I can patch this
admin share?

Here's my process:

To extract:
Office2003SP1-kb842532-fullfile-enu.exe /t:c:\Office2003SP1 /c

To apply:
msiexec /p mainsp1ff.msp /a \\fileserver1\office\2003\pro11.msi /qb

Thanks,

Mike>>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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Office 2003 Editions explained
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