Office install cached mst file

[Pierre]

which reg key must I read to get the name of the locally cached MST file for
a specific office product?


Pierre

 

[greg mansius [MSFT]]

Piere,

Can you provide details on why you need to find the name of the locally
cached mst file? Even if you know the name of the file you cannot "replace"
this file with another copy to "change" the Office installation. If you can
provide more details on your scenario I might be able to find a different
approach to the problem.

Thanks,

 

[Pierre]

the mst file that was used to deploy to approx 1000 desktop. had some
setting (file location and Registry settings) pointing to network drive that
no longer exist.

we are preparing to deploy Office XP to all the workstations. In our test
we are experiencing problem because outlook 2000 fails the uninstall with
the following error:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11327
Date: 2003/08/14
Time: 11:59:18 AM
User: N/A
Computer: ACOA032268
Description:
Product: Microsoft Outlook 2000 SR-1 -- Error 1327. Invalid Drive: f

All of Office installs except Outlook XP.

Our office suite is deployed to via GPO.

Pierre

Piere,

Can you provide details on why you need to find the name of the locally
cached mst file? Even if you know the name of the file you cannot "replace"
this file with another copy to "change" the Office installation. If you can
provide more details on your scenario I might be able to find a different
approach to the problem.

Thanks,

--
Greg Mansius [MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

which reg key must I read to get the name of the locally cached MST file for
a specific office product?


Pierre

 

[Pierre]

I forgot some info.

I our lab we were able to remove these settings from the locally cached mst
and after that the uninstall runs perfectly.


Pierre

Piere,

Can you provide details on why you need to find the name of the locally
cached mst file? Even if you know the name of the file you cannot "replace"
this file with another copy to "change" the Office installation. If you can
provide more details on your scenario I might be able to find a different
approach to the problem.

Thanks,

--
Greg Mansius [MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

which reg key must I read to get the name of the locally cached MST file for
a specific office product?


Pierre

 

[greg mansius [MSFT]]

Pierre,

Can you clarify your current environment?

Do you have Office 2000 installed? Outlook 2000 installed? Both products
installed?

It sounds like you are deploying Office XP and the installation succeeds,
however, Outlook 2002 is not getting installed. Please confirm and/or
provide additional details.

The following articles relate to 1327 errors. Please see if they are
relevant.

327763 OFF2000: "Error 1327" Occurs When You Try to Install Office 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327763

290356 OFFXP: "Error 1327. Invalid Drive: C:\..." When You Run Office XP
Setup
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=290356

Thanks,

--
Greg Mansius [MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

the mst file that was used to deploy to approx 1000 desktop. had some
setting (file location and Registry settings) pointing to network drive that
no longer exist.

we are preparing to deploy Office XP to all the workstations. In our test
we are experiencing problem because outlook 2000 fails the uninstall with
the following error:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11327
Date: 2003/08/14
Time: 11:59:18 AM
User: N/A
Computer: ACOA032268
Description:
Product: Microsoft Outlook 2000 SR-1 -- Error 1327. Invalid Drive: f

All of Office installs except Outlook XP.

Our office suite is deployed to via GPO.

Pierre

Piere,

Can you provide details on why you need to find the name of the locally
cached mst file? Even if you know the name of the file you cannot "replace"
this file with another copy to "change" the Office installation. If you can
provide more details on your scenario I might be able to find a different
approach to the problem.

Thanks,

--
Greg Mansius [MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

which reg key must I read to get the name of the locally cached MST

file
for

a specific office product?


Pierre

 

[Pierre]

We are running Windows 2000 on all deskops (RIS standard cd images used for
the deployment) SP3 inegrated.

Office 2000 without Outlook was deployed via GPO to all workstation
(assigned to computers)
Outlook 2000 was assigned to the user. (dont ask me why, i did not work here
then....)

Now for the Office XP deployment

We want to deploy the Office XP suite including Outlook to all workstation.
(assigned to the computers).

When tested in lab this method gave us the error mentioned in the previous
message. Word , Excel, Powerpoint and Access install properly but Outlook
2000 remains behind because the installer could not uninstall it.

the F:\ reference in the MST have been removed on the MST on the DFS so new
machines will not get the problem. However machine that have already been
deployed have a cached copy of the MST that has the bad reference to drive
F:\.

in Lab we replaced the cached copy with the copy from the network (while
keeping the name of the mst on the c:\winnt\installer directory) when we
deployed Office XP on those machine the installation was successful.

the problem is that the name of the cached MST changes from pc to pc.... so
we need to be able to read the reg key as to the name of the locally cached
mst so we can replace it with a VB script.. Unless you have other
suggestion.

Time is running short over here.... we are scheduled to start the
deployment early next week..... we need to address this issue.

Pierre

Pierre,

Can you clarify your current environment?

Do you have Office 2000 installed? Outlook 2000 installed? Both products
installed?

It sounds like you are deploying Office XP and the installation succeeds,
however, Outlook 2002 is not getting installed. Please confirm and/or
provide additional details.

The following articles relate to 1327 errors. Please see if they are
relevant.

327763 OFF2000: "Error 1327" Occurs When You Try to Install Office 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=327763

290356 OFFXP: "Error 1327. Invalid Drive: C:\..." When You Run Office XP
Setup
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=290356

Thanks,

--
Greg Mansius [MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

the mst file that was used to deploy to approx 1000 desktop. had some
setting (file location and Registry settings) pointing to network drive that
no longer exist.

we are preparing to deploy Office XP to all the workstations. In our test
we are experiencing problem because outlook 2000 fails the uninstall with
the following error:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11327
Date: 2003/08/14
Time: 11:59:18 AM
User: N/A
Computer: ACOA032268
Description:
Product: Microsoft Outlook 2000 SR-1 -- Error 1327. Invalid Drive: f

All of Office installs except Outlook XP.

Our office suite is deployed to via GPO.

Pierre

Piere,

Can you provide details on why you need to find the name of the locally
cached mst file? Even if you know the name of the file you cannot "replace"
this file with another copy to "change" the Office installation. If

you
can

provide more details on your scenario I might be able to find a different
approach to the problem.

Thanks,

--
Greg Mansius [MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

which reg key must I read to get the name of the locally cached MST file
for
a specific office product?


Pierre

 

[greg mansius [MSFT]]

Pierre,

Thanks for the updated information.

Please have a look at the following key to see if you can locate the
transform details you need.

HKCR\Installer\Products\<guid for Outlook 2000 or Office 2000>

The following article outlines the different guids for Office 2000 products.

230848 OFF2000: Numbering Scheme for Product Code GUIDs
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=230848

Hope this helps.

--
Greg Mansius [MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

I forgot some info.

I our lab we were able to remove these settings from the locally cached mst
and after that the uninstall runs perfectly.


Pierre

Piere,

Can you provide details on why you need to find the name of the locally
cached mst file? Even if you know the name of the file you cannot "replace"
this file with another copy to "change" the Office installation. If you can
provide more details on your scenario I might be able to find a different
approach to the problem.

Thanks,

--
Greg Mansius [MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

which reg key must I read to get the name of the locally cached MST

file
for

a specific office product?


Pierre