How to get ALL the Office 2003 products up to a network sharepoint

[Bill Bradley]

We have the Select/Enterprise version of Microsoft Office 2003 Pro
Enterprise CD. After doing installs both from CD and from the
Administrative SharePoint we created, I have the following questions, which,
amazingly, don't seem to be covered in the Resource Kit:

1. Installation of the suite (Pro Enterprise) from the CD, or to an
Administrative Sharepoint, doesn't seem to install Front Page, One Note, and
InfoPath. The Resource Kit doesn't even mention this, and, refers to an
incorrect setup file, which is really amazing since, AFAIK, you HAVE to have
an Enterprise/Select CD, with the various types of setup files it has, to
even do an Administrative Sharepoint. so, what else would the Resource Kit
be mentioning?

2. There seem to be two CD-Keys, now, one for a "type of suite", and,
the other for "individual applications". Does this mean that I can install
the Pro Enterprise Suite, but, then need to pay for the other Key to install
Front Page, One Note, and InfoPath?

3. What's the correct, or "best practice" way of getting ALL the
applications up to a network sharepoint so that they are all installed in by
running one executable.

Thanks for any and all answers, like to even invite some from Microsoft, as,
posting these questions on the private MS Forums just confused the
out-sourced, foreign tech there, as did the English language.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

The page at http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/compare.mspx
explains what is in each suite and, therefore by inference, that FrontPage
and OneNote are separate applications that must be purchased separately and
have their own separate installation programs.

InfoPath is part of Pro when purchased with a volume license, but I don't
have a VL Enterprise Pro CD to check whether it's a separate installation. I
know, however, that Business Contact Manager (which is part of Pro but not
included in the Enterprise CD set unless you beg) does require a separate
installation, after Outlook is installed.

I would try to chain the installations of the other Office apps to occur
after the main Pro installation.

 

[Bill Bradley]

Thanks, Sue (I've read and enjoyed your books).

I guess I'll just create four folders (CD1, FPG, ON, IP), put the suite and
the three programs that don't install into separate folders, then do a chain
to install them.

Just wish MS had thought to make this simpler, and, also, that the Resource
Kit documentation matched the CD's contents.

One final question...what happened to all the wealth of media content that
was in CD2 of OffXP?

Thanks, again!