Trying to deploy SP1 for Office 2003?!?

[Joseph Boswell]

Whats the deal? Wheres my MSI? I am guessing the MSP's that are included
in the SP1 patch are supposed to be applied to the Office 2003 Base
installation but ?

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

Hrm, well I got this far. Now I run it with all the options and it comes up
telling me that I have not entered a valid Product Key, I find that rather
hard to believe since there is no product key there in the first place!

I am deploying office 2003 via AD GPO's and I have an MST that gets applied
to it that has the Product Key, since I am only patching this damn thing why
would it even consider asking for the product key...

Jeeze. All I want to do is deploy an SP1 upgrade! Being sick today is
definitely not helping!

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

Hrm, well I got this far. Now I run it with all the options and it comes up
telling me that I have not entered a valid Product Key, I find that rather
hard to believe since there is no product key there in the first place!

I am deploying office 2003 via AD GPO's and I have an MST that gets applied
to it that has the Product Key, since I am only patching this damn thing why
would it even consider asking for the product key...

Jeeze. All I want to do is deploy an SP1 upgrade! Being sick today is
definitely not helping!

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

Hrm, well I got this far. Now I run it with all the options and it comes up
telling me that I have not entered a valid Product Key, I find that rather
hard to believe since there is no product key there in the first place!

I am deploying office 2003 via AD GPO's and I have an MST that gets applied
to it that has the Product Key, since I am only patching this damn thing why
would it even consider asking for the product key...

Jeeze. All I want to do is deploy an SP1 upgrade! Being sick today is
definitely not helping!

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

Hrm, well I got this far. Now I run it with all the options and it comes up
telling me that I have not entered a valid Product Key, I find that rather
hard to believe since there is no product key there in the first place!

I am deploying office 2003 via AD GPO's and I have an MST that gets applied
to it that has the Product Key, since I am only patching this damn thing why
would it even consider asking for the product key...

Jeeze. All I want to do is deploy an SP1 upgrade! Being sick today is
definitely not helping!

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

Hrm, well I got this far. Now I run it with all the options and it comes up
telling me that I have not entered a valid Product Key, I find that rather
hard to believe since there is no product key there in the first place!

I am deploying office 2003 via AD GPO's and I have an MST that gets applied
to it that has the Product Key, since I am only patching this damn thing why
would it even consider asking for the product key...

Jeeze. All I want to do is deploy an SP1 upgrade! Being sick today is
definitely not helping!

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

Hrm, well I got this far. Now I run it with all the options and it comes up
telling me that I have not entered a valid Product Key, I find that rather
hard to believe since there is no product key there in the first place!

I am deploying office 2003 via AD GPO's and I have an MST that gets applied
to it that has the Product Key, since I am only patching this damn thing why
would it even consider asking for the product key...

Jeeze. All I want to do is deploy an SP1 upgrade! Being sick today is
definitely not helping!

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

Hrm, well I got this far. Now I run it with all the options and it comes up
telling me that I have not entered a valid Product Key, I find that rather
hard to believe since there is no product key there in the first place!

I am deploying office 2003 via AD GPO's and I have an MST that gets applied
to it that has the Product Key, since I am only patching this damn thing why
would it even consider asking for the product key...

Jeeze. All I want to do is deploy an SP1 upgrade! Being sick today is
definitely not helping!

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

Hrm, well I got this far. Now I run it with all the options and it comes up
telling me that I have not entered a valid Product Key, I find that rather
hard to believe since there is no product key there in the first place!

I am deploying office 2003 via AD GPO's and I have an MST that gets applied
to it that has the Product Key, since I am only patching this damn thing why
would it even consider asking for the product key...

Jeeze. All I want to do is deploy an SP1 upgrade! Being sick today is
definitely not helping!

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

Hrm, well I got this far. Now I run it with all the options and it comes up
telling me that I have not entered a valid Product Key, I find that rather
hard to believe since there is no product key there in the first place!

I am deploying office 2003 via AD GPO's and I have an MST that gets applied
to it that has the Product Key, since I am only patching this damn thing why
would it even consider asking for the product key...

Jeeze. All I want to do is deploy an SP1 upgrade! Being sick today is
definitely not helping!

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

If you mean SMS Administration point, no. I already have an MST for my MSI
that has the product key in there. Now all I am trying to do is patch the
core office installation I have.

Basically I have the CD copied to a directory and an MST applied to the MSI
inside the AD GPO that deploys Office, the only way to deploy SP1 (I assume)
via this method is to now patch my Office 2003 installation.

Which, when I try to do that, it asks for a Product Key...

Someone must be able to answer this, I am not the only one deploying Office
via this method I think I can be at least assured of that.

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

If you mean SMS Administration point, no. I already have an MST for my MSI
that has the product key in there. Now all I am trying to do is patch the
core office installation I have.

Basically I have the CD copied to a directory and an MST applied to the MSI
inside the AD GPO that deploys Office, the only way to deploy SP1 (I assume)
via this method is to now patch my Office 2003 installation.

Which, when I try to do that, it asks for a Product Key...

Someone must be able to answer this, I am not the only one deploying Office
via this method I think I can be at least assured of that.

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

If you mean SMS Administration point, no. I already have an MST for my MSI
that has the product key in there. Now all I am trying to do is patch the
core office installation I have.

Basically I have the CD copied to a directory and an MST applied to the MSI
inside the AD GPO that deploys Office, the only way to deploy SP1 (I assume)
via this method is to now patch my Office 2003 installation.

Which, when I try to do that, it asks for a Product Key...

Someone must be able to answer this, I am not the only one deploying Office
via this method I think I can be at least assured of that.

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

If you mean SMS Administration point, no. I already have an MST for my MSI
that has the product key in there. Now all I am trying to do is patch the
core office installation I have.

Basically I have the CD copied to a directory and an MST applied to the MSI
inside the AD GPO that deploys Office, the only way to deploy SP1 (I assume)
via this method is to now patch my Office 2003 installation.

Which, when I try to do that, it asks for a Product Key...

Someone must be able to answer this, I am not the only one deploying Office
via this method I think I can be at least assured of that.

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

If you mean SMS Administration point, no. I already have an MST for my MSI
that has the product key in there. Now all I am trying to do is patch the
core office installation I have.

Basically I have the CD copied to a directory and an MST applied to the MSI
inside the AD GPO that deploys Office, the only way to deploy SP1 (I assume)
via this method is to now patch my Office 2003 installation.

Which, when I try to do that, it asks for a Product Key...

Someone must be able to answer this, I am not the only one deploying Office
via this method I think I can be at least assured of that.

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

If you mean SMS Administration point, no. I already have an MST for my MSI
that has the product key in there. Now all I am trying to do is patch the
core office installation I have.

Basically I have the CD copied to a directory and an MST applied to the MSI
inside the AD GPO that deploys Office, the only way to deploy SP1 (I assume)
via this method is to now patch my Office 2003 installation.

Which, when I try to do that, it asks for a Product Key...

Someone must be able to answer this, I am not the only one deploying Office
via this method I think I can be at least assured of that.

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

If you mean SMS Administration point, no. I already have an MST for my MSI
that has the product key in there. Now all I am trying to do is patch the
core office installation I have.

Basically I have the CD copied to a directory and an MST applied to the MSI
inside the AD GPO that deploys Office, the only way to deploy SP1 (I assume)
via this method is to now patch my Office 2003 installation.

Which, when I try to do that, it asks for a Product Key...

Someone must be able to answer this, I am not the only one deploying Office
via this method I think I can be at least assured of that.

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

If you mean SMS Administration point, no. I already have an MST for my MSI
that has the product key in there. Now all I am trying to do is patch the
core office installation I have.

Basically I have the CD copied to a directory and an MST applied to the MSI
inside the AD GPO that deploys Office, the only way to deploy SP1 (I assume)
via this method is to now patch my Office 2003 installation.

Which, when I try to do that, it asks for a Product Key...

Someone must be able to answer this, I am not the only one deploying Office
via this method I think I can be at least assured of that.

Joe

 

[Joseph Boswell]

If you mean SMS Administration point, no. I already have an MST for my MSI
that has the product key in there. Now all I am trying to do is patch the
core office installation I have.

Basically I have the CD copied to a directory and an MST applied to the MSI
inside the AD GPO that deploys Office, the only way to deploy SP1 (I assume)
via this method is to now patch my Office 2003 installation.

Which, when I try to do that, it asks for a Product Key...

Someone must be able to answer this, I am not the only one deploying Office
via this method I think I can be at least assured of that.

Joe

 

[Zack]

Just thought I'd chime in and say that I'm in the same boat. I have
Office 2003 deployed to my users via a compressed CD image on the network,
assigned to computers via GP along with a custom MST file created with the
CIW. Since we only have .msp files from the SP1 patch, I can't just
upgrade the application via GP, if I understand the situation correctly.

Given that installing via compressed CD image with local source caching is
Microsoft's recommended method of deployment for Office, why is it now a
headache to update to SP1? Unless I'm misunderstanding the instructions,
it seems the only methods of updating our installed base is having
everyone run the patch on their machines. Obviously this is unacceptable,
so I hope that I'm misunderstanding something. Isn't there at the least a
way to apply the .msp file to the .msi on the network, then modify the
original GPO to redeploy the application?

Thanks for any help!

-Zack-, who is relatively new to Group Policy Software Installation