office 2003 SP3 silent install

[Tacobell2000]

Hello,

I am not using SMS to deploy office 2003 SP3. I would like to deploy a
silent install of office 2003 sp3 only. I would like all computers to have a
silent install upon boot up in the morning. Absolutely no user interaction. I
plan to either use a group policy or psexec to accomplish this. We have
running 4 windows 2003 servers and AD is installed. Everyone is in a domain.
There are currently no users with Admin rights. Also all office 2003 is OEM
software. The SP3 is an executable file.
I am not a programmer so i was wondering if someone out there has some code
to paste in the answer box.
This is what i have and it does not work.
\\file server\path to the executable /q


Many thanks,
Tacobell2000

 

[Keith V. Klenke]

I *had* to answer someone with your username, viva chihuahua!

Do you have WSUS in your environment? That would be the best way for all
your machines to update to office2003sp3 if you want a silent unattended
install without SMS, and wsus is free. No admin rights needed on the
workstations. If you do not currently have wsus, I would highly recommend
it.


btw, best tacobell story - during the whole godzilla/tacobell chihuahua
promo they had a giant blowup godzilla sitting on top of a tacobell
building. When I drove by a few days later the building had been flattened
(it was a really old tacobell building so i guess instead of cleaning it
they just tore it down & built a new one). So it appeared godzilla had
trashed the tacobell.

 

[Eric A.]

Hello TacoBell,

Since you are wanting to use GPO, I am assuming you would use a startup
script.

If you need further help with that in particular, let me know. However it
sounds like you just need the command to use to make the install silent. Here
is how.

1. Download Sp3 locally.

2. Create a folder in the c:\ named Patch. Place
Office2003SP3-KB923618-FullFile-ENU.exe in that folder.

3. goto start, then run. In the run box type "cmd" (without the quotes). hit
enter

4. in the black window that comes up type "cd\" (without the quotes). hit
enter then type "cd patch" (without the quotes). hit enter

5. type "Office2003SP3-KB923618-FullFile-ENU.exe /c /t:c:\patch /q" (without
the quotes). hit enter

6. Now using windows explorer locate the folder c:\patch. You will see some
new files. "MAINSP3.msp" is Office 2003 Sp3.

7. Place MAINSP3.msp into a shared folder that everyone has read access to.
You can then use the following command in a startup script to install Sp3
automatically on system boot.

msiexec /p "\\ENTER_FULL_PATH_HERE\MAINSP3.msp" /qn

It should be noted that in the c:\patch folder you will also have 4 ohotfix
files. You can disregard them. Also you will have "OWC102003SP3.msp" and
"OWC11SP3.msp". Those files are Sp3 for Office xp and 2003 (respectively)
webcomponents. You can also run them from the startup script using the same
syntax if need be.