Office 2003 Admin Install -- help with slipstream

[Brian Roberson]

I want to incorporate the 5 or 6 patches that have been released for Office
2003.

I'm attempting to do what I have done in the past and slipstream the
patches. The problem is i'm continually getting:

"You have no entered a valid product key" or "Product key invalid"

This is a 2003 admin install where we use a transform file. All files are
present including setuppro.exe and pro11.msi in addition to all of our
transform files. I don't understand why the patch process is having trouble
with our keycode. Do we need to put our keycode into a file in that
directory? Currently if you run setuppro.exe without a transform you do
have to manually put the key code in. I figure it is running it and choking
on that fact. I never receive the opportunity to put in the key code
either.

Any ideas?

Brian

 

[Brian Roberson]

As a followup - i ran the administrative update "/A" on the CD. This
created a different structure. When trying to run the patches against it,
now i'm getting "Insert Microsoft Office 2003 CD" instead of the invalid
product key. I can't understand where the message is coming from or where
it wants me to insert the CD.

Brian