Office System (2003) Hotfix Slipstreaming
Office System 2003 Service Pack 2 was released in the end of September 2005. You can download SP2 for Office System 2003 right here:
Download Office System 2003 SP2 – Client only (50.5mb)
Download Office System 2003 SP2 – Full administrative installation (101mb)
For detailed instructions on how to integrate SP1 into your Office 2003 products see the following articles: Front Page 2003 SP2 Slipstreaming, Office System (2003) SP2 Slipstreaming and One Note 2003 SP2 Slipstreaming.
For Office XP integrated installations see the Office XP SP1/2 Slipstreaming page.
Even after installing SP2, whenever a new Hotfix is released by Microsoft, you will be able to easily slipstream the new Hotfix into the installation files, so whenever you ll want to install Office again, it will already have the updates integrated into the installation.
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This scenario explains how to create an integrated installation of Office System and the corresponding Hotfix in a shared distribution folder on a network or on your local computer. To complete this procedure, you must have the original Office System CD media.
Note: This explanation is currently based upon usage of 2 older Office System 2003 patches, but will also work for future updates.
Before we begin anything, you’ll need to have a few things (again, this is just an example based upon 2 older Hotfixes, not required after SP2):
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Note: 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:
x:setup /a
Lamer Note: X: is the physical drive your CD drive is assigned. Notice that there is a space between the “setup” and the “/”.
This is going to start the install process of Office System. You ll be presented with the option of where you want the files to go (I chose “c:office”), and you ll be asked to enter your CD key.
Network Installation Note: If you plan to use this installation point to install Office System from the network of via Group Policy (GPO) you must first create a folder on your server, share it, and then browse to that share via the network path, NOT the local path.
For the slipstreaming of the February 2005 critical update do the following:
Double-click the file (or use WinZip or similar) to extract the file to a folder of your choice (I called it 885828).
You ll be asked where to extract the update. Enter it here or use the browse button if you ve made the folder already. If you specify a directory that doesn t exist, it will be made automatically.
Note that after the extraction is complete you ll end up with an .MSP file and a few other files. In this case the file s name is MSOop.MSP.
Again, extract the file to a folder of your choice (I called it 892236). In this case you
ll end up with a few files, one of them is OUTLFLTR.MSP.Enter the following command from the “Run” command:
msiexec /p x:885828MSOop.msp /a x:officepro11.msi shortfilenames=true /qb
Where “x” is the drive letter where the files are located, OFFICE is the folder where the Office System files were copied, and 885828 is the folder where the Hotfix file was extracted.
Just copy the above line and change the folder locations to ease your typing and reduce spelling mistakes.
Note: There will be not visual prompts when the process is finished.
Similar to the first example.
Enter the following command from the “Run” command:
msiexec /p x:892236OUTLFLTR.msp /a x:officepro11.msi shortfilenames=true /qb
Where “x” is the drive letter where the files are located, OFFICE is the folder where the Office System files were copied, and 892236 is the folder where the Hotfix file was extracted.
Just copy the above line and change the folder locations to ease your typing and reduce spelling mistakes.
Note: Like in the previous example, there will be not visual prompts when the process is finished.
Do the same for all future patches, Hotfixes and updates. Just replace the .MSP filename with the relevant filename of the patch.
Use you favorite CD-Burning software and burn the OFFICE folder to a CD.
You don t need instructions for that, do you?
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