creating 2 silnt admin installs for Office 2007

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ac2006

I need to create 2 silent admin installs for Office 2007. One install needs
to contain the Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook).
The other needs to install only Outlook.

My issue is:

I had the full Office silent install setup and running (I used setup.exe
/admin to create my Office.msp file)

I then ran setup.exe /admin again and created second MSP file called
Outlook.msp. I tested it on a new machine and it removed just Outlook 2003
and installed just Outlook 2007 (leaving Word 2003, Excel 2003, PowerPoint
2003 and Access 2003 in place) This is what I wanted it to do.

I then tried the full Office silent install again on another machine and it
removed all Office 2003 applications and only installed Outlook 2003, it did
not install Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.

It seems that by creating a second msp, it has somehow screwed up my first
msp.

I then opened my Office.msp in the Office Customization Tool and verified
that all the applications are set to install (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
and Outlook) and tried the install again, again it removed all Office 2003
and only installed Outlook 2007.

Here is what I have setup

For the full Office install:
\\servername\sharename\setup.exe /config
\\servername\sharename\OfficeConfig.xml /adminfile
\\servername\sharename\Updates\Office.MSP

For the Outlook only install:
\\servername\sharename\setup.exe /config
\\servername\sharename\OutlookConfig.xml /adminfile
\\servername\sharename\Updates\Outlook.MSP

Here are the contents of OfficeConfig.xml: (I removed the commented out
entries for this post)

<Configuration Product="Enterprise">

<Display Level="None" CompletionNotice="No" SuppressModal="Yes"
AcceptEula="Yes" />

<Logging Type="Verbose" Path="c:\" Template="Office2K7Install.txt" />

<Setting Id="Reboot" Value="Never" />

</Configuration>

Here are the contents of OutlookConfig.xml: (I removed the commented out
entries for this post)

<Configuration Product="Enterprise">

<Display Level="None" CompletionNotice="No" SuppressModal="Yes"
AcceptEula="Yes" />

<Logging Type="Verbose" Path="c:\" Template="Outlook2K7Install.txt" />

<Setting Id="Reboot" Value="Never" />

</Configuration>

Is it not possible to create more than one custom install for Office 2007?
 
A

ac2006

I figured out how to get this to work. If you have multiple MSP files, none
of them can reside in the Updates folder.

Apparently, if any MSP files are in the Updates folder, setup looks for the
most recently updated one and uses it, regardless of what you have specified
with the /adminfile switch.

I moved my MSP files to the root of the install directory and both of them
work fine now.
 

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