Slipstreaming Outlook RTM with SP1

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Brian Henry

How do you create a Outlook 2003 admin installation point with the Outlook
2003 RTM CD (outlook only, not office) and SP1 for office 2003? thanks!
 
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neo [mvp outlook]

As far as I know, you can only use Volume License CDs from Microsoft Select
plans to create administrative install points. (See note section of
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011401931033.aspx.) However
you could still create a cached CD copy on the LAN and still use the CIW to
deploy. (cached CD means that you are copying the entire contents of the CD
to the LAN. You won't be able to update the administrative install point,
but at least you can deploy from this point.)

So assuming that you have a copy of Outlook 2003 that is a non-retail CD,
the steps are pretty much the same as Office 2003.

1) Create an administrative install share
2) Install Outlook into it by running seutp.exe with the /a switch
3) Patch it using the full update via via msiexec
(http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/five/ch18/mnta01.htm covers
everything from patching the administrative install to getting the files out
to the users. However I always take a peek at the KB article of the update
I'm using to see if there is any additional information in regards to
administrative updates. eg.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;835235&sd=RMVP has a
good section that isn't covered in the previous link.)
 
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