How to distirbute O2K7 sp1 to clients from an installation image

[Kevin]

I've had a devil of a time finding concrete information on this topic. After
some hours of reading various articles and white papers, I finally found it
*clearly* stated that you cannot actually distribute SP1 from an installation
image to clients who previously used that installation image to get office
2007 (non-sp1). In previous version you could refresh an existing
installation.

So, is the proper way to upgrade a client from office 2007 to office 2007
SP1 to download the full file and run it on each client machine if you don't
wish to use a method like Windows Update, WSUS, or SMS/GP?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Kevin,

Yes, for new clients you can use the \Updates folder to run updates such as SP1 as part of the initial deployment sequence, and you
could probably pull from that folder with a script for adding it that can get a bit messy

Have a look at the 'Self Extractor' section of
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178995.aspx#MaintainOfficeInstall

Basically what is updated is the MSOCache local store (same as with an image install) and the local store is what runs a setup.

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I've had a devil of a time finding concrete information on this topic. After
some hours of reading various articles and white papers, I finally found it
*clearly* stated that you cannot actually distribute SP1 from an installation
image to clients who previously used that installation image to get office
2007 (non-sp1). In previous version you could refresh an existing
installation.

So, is the proper way to upgrade a client from office 2007 to office 2007
SP1 to download the full file and run it on each client machine if you don't
wish to use a method like Windows Update, WSUS, or SMS/GP? >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*