Installation of Office 2003 over previous versions

[Bill Bradley]

For various reasons, and, the fact that MS changed the name of the setup
executable, our computers with Office 2000, SR1a, and SP3 have three
different Administrative Installation Points. We're trying to push out
Office 2003 with SMS, but, it seems to sometimes want the original Office
2000 AIP, and, we need to either stop that from happening, or, find a way to
automatically look in all three places.

Any way to do this?

Thanks!

 

[Arie Heinrich]

Hi Bill,

When installing Office from the AIPs' have you used a mapped drive letter ?
If so, is that still available to users ?

When installing Office, and for that matter any MSI based install, it
records
the location of the install source, you can view this in the registry at the
floowing location:
HKLM\Software\Classes\Installer\Products
Look for a Product code (on the left isde) that has a Product Name (on the
right side) of your Office version.
When you find it, under that will be a SourceList folder and in it youll
have the
LastUsed Source option with the location from where the install occured.

Again, if you used a mapped drive for the install, make sure that mapped
drive is still available to the users, if you used a UNC path -
\\server\share, make sure thats still available to the users.

Only if no source install location is reached by the setup programs will it
popup a message requesting a new location.

Hope this helps,

Arie H.
MS MVP

 

[Bill Bradley]

Thanks.

I understand this, and, our path is Q:\off2k\cd1\, but, that's where the
problem starts. In the original release of Off2K, the executable was
setup.exe, with later releases (and, I'm talking the 4-CD Enterprise/Select
version) the executable changed to setupprm.exe or setuppro.exe, and, of
course, with the advent of slipstreaming SR1a or SP3, installs from older
versions won't use the AIP for the newer versions.

It's just a big mess!