KB892843 Update w/ Admin Install Point...

[Chris]

Greetings,

Backround:
I've recently deployed Outlook 2003 - SP2 to our organization via SMS and a
Admin Installation Point. Everything works great. We're currently using
Outlook 2003 and Office 2000 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access).

Update:
I'm trying to update & deploy this KB892843 Patch to my Administrative
Install Point as well as all my existing clients.

Based off the MS06-003 Security Bulletin document, MS Office Assistant
Strategies for Updating Office 2003 Installation, and several other
documents...I have seemed to have successfully updated the Admin Install
Point. I used the following parameters to update this:

msiexec /p [path to MSP file from KB892843 patch] /a [admin install path]
SHORTFILESNAMES=TRUE /qb /L* [path to log file]

According to the log file, the very end states that it finishes successfully.

Now, the problem...updating all existing clients.

I've tried several options and none seem to be working. I've tried the
following:

(1) - setup.exe REINSTALL=ALL /qb (from MS Office Assistance: Strategies for
Updating Office 2003 Installations doc)
(2) - setup.exe /fvm (from Maintaining and Updating Office 2003 installation
doc)
(3) - msiexec /i [adminpath\MSI] /qb REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomu

All of which are from Microsoft resources...and all of which do not work.

Can someone please advise as to the correct parameters? I'll want to script
this via SMS 2003 if possible.

Thanks in advance,
-C

 

[Lillian]

Here is what is working for me. You really have to look at their (MS)
instructions because I had issues at first.

(path)\MSOFFICE_2003\SETUPPRO.EXE /REINSTALL=ALL /qb

Do not start with msiexec, and be sure to use setuppro.exe not pro11.msi.

Hope this helps.