Hi Folks,
I’ve already posted a blog on MS Office 2007 installation. why now for 2003? The reason was we get lot of requests still on MS Office 2003, so i’m making a brief post to address this. Lets get into the details of Microsoft Office 2003 installation using Desktop Central.
How it works?
The Custom Installation Wizard enables you to record changes to the master installation in a Windows Installer transform (MST file) without altering the original package (MSI file). When setup is run with both the package and the transform, Windows Installer applies the transform to the original package, and Setup uses your altered configuration to perform the installation unattended.
How to do it?
1. You need the Office Resource Kit (ORK) to customize the Office package also the actual office installation. You can download the ORK from the below given microsoft site.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/e/d/0eda9ae6-f5c9-44be-98c7-ccc3016a296a/ork.exe
2. You can trigger the tool from the shown UI path.
Start -> Programs -> Microsoft Office -> Microsoft Office Tools -> Microsoft Office Resource Kit -> Custom Installation Wizard.
3. Customize your MS Office 2003 as need. The given URL speaks about the extensive customizations of MS Office on users’ computers. (if you run the tool, its going to be pretty easy in most of the cases, if you are not sure just move ahead with next it will not cause any issues.)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011401941033.aspx
4. When done you will be shown with the command line to run. Something like this
Setup.exe TRANSFORMS=UNATTENDED.MST /qp-
5. Copy and paste this command in the Desktop Central -> Software installation -> add package -> command line. Now try with couple of computers to ensure whether your customization goes fine before you roll out to the network.
Check here for more details.
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/50/
Cheers
romanus
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