Office XP/2003 EULA - How do I accept it for 150 users/computers?

[Alex]

I have an AD network of about 150 computers. All workstations have Windows
XP Pro and either Office XP or Office 2003. All users are "Domain Users" and
as such do not have Administrator rights. I use the new WSUS to push updates
to workstations, including all of the Office updates. Recent Office XP and
2003 updates pushed out through WSUS have forced the end users to have to
accept the End User License Agreement every time they open an Office app.

I know about the logging in as Administrator to accept the agreement and
yes, it does work. However, it is not reasonable to have to do this for all
150+ computers at my organization. Even worse, what's to stop Microsoft from
forcing this again through another Office update and then having to do it all
over again?

So, the real question is: How can I accept the EULA for all machines
through a centrally managed solution? It matters not to me whether its a
group policy or something managed within WSUS, but personally touching every
single computer at my organization to fix this is simply not a reasonable
answer. Giving the end users temporary Administrator rights is not
reasonable, either.

 

[Alton [MS]]

Are you using a WSUS server solution? The deployment is suposed to be silent
if you are using WSUS Server. Are the clients actually installing from
Microsoft directly?

 

[Alex]

Are you using a WSUS server solution? The deployment is suposed to be
silent

if you are using WSUS Server. Are the clients actually installing from
Microsoft directly?

Yes, we are using WSUS and the client machines get their updates from it.
We use the feature where the WSUS server both approves the updates and stores
the files.

 

[Filip Zahradnik]

Hi Alex,

I might have a solution for you. See here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...1fa50d-6c0a-495b-a760-05bc9c08458e&sloc=en-us

Regards,

Filip