Problem changing my deployment of office 2007

[patrickforde]

Hi,

I have pushed out office 2007 pro to my company and am looking to
change my office package on all machines.

As the company used lotus notes and did not want to push out access
2007. I did not push these out to all machines. The company now wants to
move over to outlook 2007 and I am having difficulties upgrading my
package with outlook 2007 installed.

I pushed the software out using group policy and pointed the policy to
the ProPlusWW.msi and changed the config file to look like below.

<Configuration Product="ProPlus">
<Display Level="basic" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes"
NoCancel="yes" AcceptEula="yes" />
<PIDKEY Value="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" />
<USERNAME Value="username" />
<COMPANYNAME Value="Company Name" />
<OptionState Id="ACCESSFiles" State="absent" Children="force" />
//access
<OptionState Id="OUTLOOKFiles" State="absent" Children="force" />
//outlook
</Configuration>

I have tried editing the config file and redeploying the application
with both removing the line for access, and also changing the line to
say local insteas of absent. Outlook has installed on the computers but
I keep getting the error messages"outlook 2007 the operation failed due
to an installation problem"

I was wondering if anyone could stear me in the right way. I have tried
to point to another folder also. I would like to do this centrally
rather than manually. All works fine with manually removing and then
pushing out the msi with changed config file.

 

[db614]

Are you using the Office Customization Tool to build your package? Or, how
did you push out Office before minus Access?

If using the OCT, go into Features/Set feature installation states ... and
make sure the apps you want are enabled (not just the changes, but all apps
that you want to be enabled). Then you can save a new MSP, drop it in the
Updates folder of your package and push out the updated MSP which will modify
existing installs as needed.

 

[patrickforde]

Hi. I have not been using the OCT. I had changed my config.xml file an
used this to deploy office without outlook and access by editing as pe
my origional post.

I have changed the config.xml file so that any new computers that ar
joined to the domain and put into this OU will recieve office wit
outlook installed.

I have used the OCT to create an MSP and put it into the update
folder. When this MSP is run. It updates the package to include outlook


The problem is what to do with the machines that are currently on m
network. I could do around and log on to all machines and run the MSP
but would prefer to do this centrally...i.e. from AD. But as far as I a
aware you cannot push out MSP files using AD/GP.

I cannot push out with ProPlus.msi either as mentioned in the post
this creates errors. The config.xml and MSP file do not seem to wor
together unfortunately. Any help or suggestions would be greatl
appreciated