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Office System (2003) SP2 Slipstreaming
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 SP2, but will also work for any future service packs. For Office XP integrated installations see Office XP SP1/2/3 Slipstreaming.
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Before we begin anything, you’ll need to have a few things:
No, the regular SP won’t do.
Note: For languages other than English you’ll need the Office 2003 Multilanguage SP which will be available at a later date (as of October 2005).
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.exe /a
Lamer Note: X: is the physical drive your CD drive is assigned. Notice there is a space between the “setup.exe” and the “/”.
This is going to start the install process of Office 2003. You’ll be presented with the option of where you want the files to go (I chose “D:Office2003“), and you’ll be asked to enter your CD key.
Network Installation Note: If you plan to use this installation point to install Office 2003 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.
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 SP2 to perform the slipstreaming process. The regular SP won’t do. Download it from the link at the Prerequisites section above.
Office2003SP2-KB887616-FullFile-ENU
or, if you want, you can use this command:
folderOffice2003SP2-KB887616-FullFile-ENU /t:D:Office2003SP2 /c
(where folder is the path to where you’ve downloaded SP2 and D:Office2003SP2 is the folder to where you’ll extract the SP2 files. Use your own path if necessary)
Lamer Note: The above command is ONE line. Just copy and paste.
Note: If you double-click the downloaded EXE file, installation of the SP2 patch begins automatically.
After extracting the SP2 files you’ll end up with a few files.
Start the “Run” command from your “Start” menu again. Enter the following command:
msiexec /p D:Office2003SP2MAINSP2ff.msp /a D:Office2003PRO11.MSI shortfilenames=true /qb
Where D:Office2003SP2 is the path where the SP2 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:
msiexec /p D:Office2003SP2OWC11SP2ff.msp /a D:Office2003OWC11.MSI shortfilenames=true /qb
Where D:Office2003SP2 is the path where the SP2 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 you favorite CD-Burning software and burn the D:Office2003 folder to a CD. You don
Note that after slipstreaming SP2 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.
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