Issues with O2k3SP3 Unattend and MUI Chained installs

[William Anderson]

Hey guys,

I recently created an unattended installation for Office 2k3 and
slipstreamed Service Pack 3 with it. In the SETUP.INI file, I chained
installs for the German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese MUIs per the request
of my client support team.

Here's what happens:

1) On computers with NO Office installation, the unattended install runs
fine and installs the MUI packs. (SMS Deployed)
2) On computers with Service Pack 2 installed, it upgrades the installation
to Service Pack 3, but DOES NOT install the MUI packs. (SMS Deployed)
3) On computers that either have SP2 installed or NO Office installation,
the unattended can be run from the command line and office installs, but DOES
NOT install the MUI packs.

I could see that I'm missing something that would give different results for
1) and 2), but 3) is really throwing me for a loop. Anyone have any ideas on
what to look at?

Thanks!

 

[Michiel W.]

1) works fine
2) works as designed. Chained installs only start one time. To upgrade
existing installations of Office 2003 SP2, you'll have to apply the patches,
B.e. with a vbscript. The Office 2003 installer is 'smart' enough to upgrade
itself to SP3 when it finds that SP2 is allready installed, but this just
doesn't work for the MUI chains.
3) Don't exactly see what you mean here. Do you mean a manual install
without SMS?


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Michiel Wouters

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[William Anderson]

Thanks for the response Michael,

3) Yeah, if I run the office installation from the Run line prompting for
the transform like I have in the SMS command it fails to install the MUIs
whether Office SP2 was installed or not.

1 and 2 make sense now. Thanks for that. I suppose I can just package the
MUIs seperate in SMS and make them non-mandatory adverts that the user can
run...

1) works fine
2) works as designed. Chained installs only start one time. To upgrade
existing installations of Office 2003 SP2, you'll have to apply the patches,
B.e. with a vbscript. The Office 2003 installer is 'smart' enough to upgrade
itself to SP3 when it finds that SP2 is allready installed, but this just
doesn't work for the MUI chains.
3) Don't exactly see what you mean here. Do you mean a manual install
without SMS?


--
Michiel Wouters

[MCSE 2003]
[MCSA Messaging 2003]

Before you post, think with the brain you host

Hey guys,

I recently created an unattended installation for Office 2k3 and
slipstreamed Service Pack 3 with it. In the SETUP.INI file, I chained
installs for the German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese MUIs per the request
of my client support team.

Here's what happens:

1) On computers with NO Office installation, the unattended install runs
fine and installs the MUI packs. (SMS Deployed)
2) On computers with Service Pack 2 installed, it upgrades the installation
to Service Pack 3, but DOES NOT install the MUI packs. (SMS Deployed)
3) On computers that either have SP2 installed or NO Office installation,
the unattended can be run from the command line and office installs, but DOES
NOT install the MUI packs.

I could see that I'm missing something that would give different results for
1) and 2), but 3) is really throwing me for a loop. Anyone have any ideas on
what to look at?

Thanks!