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Jeremy
Here is my scenario:
I have about 50 workstations currently that have Office 2003 Standard
installed on them by hand. We have the Office 2007 Standard that I
wish to deploy in an automated manner without SMS or any other pay
product. I have deduced, and correct me if I am wrong, that my best
option is with Group Policy deployment.
In exploring this tangent this is what I understand and have
accomplished so far:
The Office 2007 install files must reside on a kerebos aware shared
folder (Windows 2000/2003) and will not install from a samba (unless
somebody can tell me how to configure samba to be kerebos aware) or a
Windows NT 4 share.
I have figured out how to uninstalled Office 2003 Standard with a
single command:
MsiExec.exe /q /x {90120409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9}
I have become aware that the GPO deployment settings from from the
%Office2007InstallPath%\Standard.WW\config.xml file
Here is mine thus far:
<Configuration Product="Standard">
<MinOSRequirement
VersionNT="501"
WindowsBuild="2600"
ServicePackLevel="2"
/>
<Display
Level="None"
CompletionNotice="No"
NoCancel="No"
SuppressModal="Yes"
AcceptEula="yes"
/>
<PIDKEY Value="XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX" />
<Logging
Type="verbose"
Path="%temp%"
Template="Microsoft Office Standard Setup(*).txt"
/>
<USERNAME Value="MyName" />
<COMPANYNAME Value="MyCompany" />
<Setting
Id="Reboot"
Value="IfNeeded"
/>
<Command Path="%SystemRoot%\windows32\MsiExec.exe" Args="/x
{90120409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9}" QuietArg="/q"
ChainPosition="before" Execute="Uninstall" />
<Command Path="%SystemRoot%\windows32\MsiExec.exe" Args="/i
\\dfs\root\InstallPoint\MSOffice2007\ODF-Add-in-For-Word2007-0.2.msi"
ChainPosition="After" Execute="install" />
</Configuration>
But here are my two problems and both are related to the Command tag.
Neither one of these functions run at all. What am I doing wrong? It
makes sense to have the uninstall command here because Office 2003
Standard was deployed by hand thus uninstall/upgrade via GPO doesn't
work. I should point out that when I comment out the 2 command tags
and run the MsiExec on the command line, Office 2003 is removed and
Office 2007 gets installed just fine.
Any help would be great.
Jeremy Van Veelen
I have about 50 workstations currently that have Office 2003 Standard
installed on them by hand. We have the Office 2007 Standard that I
wish to deploy in an automated manner without SMS or any other pay
product. I have deduced, and correct me if I am wrong, that my best
option is with Group Policy deployment.
In exploring this tangent this is what I understand and have
accomplished so far:
The Office 2007 install files must reside on a kerebos aware shared
folder (Windows 2000/2003) and will not install from a samba (unless
somebody can tell me how to configure samba to be kerebos aware) or a
Windows NT 4 share.
I have figured out how to uninstalled Office 2003 Standard with a
single command:
MsiExec.exe /q /x {90120409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9}
I have become aware that the GPO deployment settings from from the
%Office2007InstallPath%\Standard.WW\config.xml file
Here is mine thus far:
<Configuration Product="Standard">
<MinOSRequirement
VersionNT="501"
WindowsBuild="2600"
ServicePackLevel="2"
/>
<Display
Level="None"
CompletionNotice="No"
NoCancel="No"
SuppressModal="Yes"
AcceptEula="yes"
/>
<PIDKEY Value="XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX" />
<Logging
Type="verbose"
Path="%temp%"
Template="Microsoft Office Standard Setup(*).txt"
/>
<USERNAME Value="MyName" />
<COMPANYNAME Value="MyCompany" />
<Setting
Id="Reboot"
Value="IfNeeded"
/>
<Command Path="%SystemRoot%\windows32\MsiExec.exe" Args="/x
{90120409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9}" QuietArg="/q"
ChainPosition="before" Execute="Uninstall" />
<Command Path="%SystemRoot%\windows32\MsiExec.exe" Args="/i
\\dfs\root\InstallPoint\MSOffice2007\ODF-Add-in-For-Word2007-0.2.msi"
ChainPosition="After" Execute="install" />
</Configuration>
But here are my two problems and both are related to the Command tag.
Neither one of these functions run at all. What am I doing wrong? It
makes sense to have the uninstall command here because Office 2003
Standard was deployed by hand thus uninstall/upgrade via GPO doesn't
work. I should point out that when I comment out the 2 command tags
and run the MsiExec on the command line, Office 2003 is removed and
Office 2007 gets installed just fine.
Any help would be great.
Jeremy Van Veelen