Like in previous versions of Office and their corresponding Service Packs, SP3 can be slipstreamed into an administrative installation point of Office 2003, in order to allow for a fully integrated installation. This scenario explains how to create an integrated installation of Office System (2003) and the corresponding service pack in a shared distribution folder on a network or on your local computer. To complete this procedure, you must have the original Office 2003 CD media.
Note: This explanation is based upon usage of Office System (2003) and SP3, but will also work for any future service packs. For Office XP integrated installations see “Office XP SP1/2/3 Slipstreaming“.
Before we begin anything, you’ll need to have a few things:
Do NOT just copy your CD to your HD! Doing so will cause the setup files to grow to more than 900mb, and you will not be able to burn them to CD.
Instead, use the following steps:
The next step is to decompress the Administrative Update into a folder on your hard drive.
Read my lips: You need the administrative version of SP3 to perform the slipstreaming process. The regular SP won’t do. Download it from the link at the Prerequisites section above.
Start the “Run” command from your “Start” menu again. Enter the following command:
Where D:\Office2003SP2 is the path where the SP3 files are located, and D:\Office2003 is the folder where the Office 2003 files were copied during step #1. Just copy the above line and change the folder locations to ease your typing and reduce spelling mistakes.
Lamer note: Please, please use your OWN drive letters and folder names…
This will update the core components.
Note that you will not receive any message telling you that the process was indeed successful.
Once that is done, you’ll need to update the web components. Start the “Run” command from your “Start” menu again. Enter the following command:
Where D:\Office2003SP3 is the path where the SP3 files are located, and D:\Office2003 is the folder where the Office 2003 files were copied. Just copy the above line and change the folder locations to ease your typing and reduce spelling mistakes.
Lamer note: Duh…
Again, note that you will not receive any message telling you that the process was indeed successful.
Use your favorite CD-Burning software and burn the D:\Office2003 folder to a CD. You don’t need instructions for that, do you?
Note that after slipstreaming SP3 the D:\Office2003 folder is approximately 646mb in size:
Lamer note: Do NOT e-mail me with complaints that the CD-key I gave you doesn’t work. I never gave you any CD-key, the keys listed on my site are all samples, not true keys.
Another Lamer note: Do NOT e-mail me with complaints about the size of the Office 2003 folder and that it cannot fit into one CD. It can, and if you don’t know how to follow these simple instructions then you’d better go and find yourself another job.