Silent install of Office 2007 Proofing Tools Kit

[Daan]

Hi,

I'm stuck here..

I created a config.xml and ran setup using the /config parameter (setup.exe /config config.xml)

The installation looks ok - no errors - installs just fine, but, it always installs as default.

If I set every option to absent it wil still do a default installation.

Hope someone can help, can't seem to find any info on this one!

I used the following site as information source:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179042.aspx

My config.xml:

<Configuration Product="ProofKit">
	<Display Level="Basic" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" 
AcceptEula="yes" />
	<Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office 
Setup(*).txt" />
	<PIDKEY Value="(removed)" />				
	<USERNAME Value="IT Dep." />
	<COMPANYNAME Value="Blabla" />
	<INSTALLLOCATION Value="%programfiles%\Microsoft Office" />
	<Optionstate Id="IMEMain_1028" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="IMEMain_1041" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="IMEMain_1042" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="IMEMain_2052" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1025" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1026" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1027" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1028" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1029" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="ProofingTools_1030" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1031" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1032" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="ProofingTools_1033" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1035" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1036" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1037" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1038" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1040" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1041" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1042" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="ProofingTools_1043" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="ProofingTools_1044" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1045" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1046" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1048" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1049" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1050" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1051" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="ProofingTools_1053" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1054" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1055" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1056" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1058" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1060" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1061" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1062" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1063" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1069" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1081" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1094" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1095" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1097" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1098" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1099" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1102" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_1110" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_2052" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<OptionState Id="ProofingTools_2068" State="Local" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_2070" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_2074" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Optionstate Id="ProofingTools_3082" State="Absent" Children="force" />
	<Setting Id="Reboot" Value="Never" />			
</Configuration>

[Daan]

Still haven't figured this out... no one knows what's going wrong here?

[tik]

Still haven't figured this out... no one knows what's going wrong here?

Ill take a look there.. im not using the config switch at all when running the setup.

Just running it without, but im using the config.xml a different way.

To test it:

in the root go to:

<root> config.xml

looks like

<Configuration Product="ProofKit">

	<!-- <Display Level="full" CompletionNotice="yes" SuppressModal="no" AcceptEula="no" /> -->
	<!-- <Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office Profing Tools Kit Setup(*).txt" /> -->
	<!-- <PIDKEY Value="serialofsomesort" /> -->
				<USERNAME Value="Username" />
	<COMPANYNAME Value="Company name" />
	<!-- <INSTALLLOCATION Value="%programfiles%\Microsoft Office" /> -->
	<!-- <LIS CACHEACTION="CacheOnly" /> -->
	<!-- <SOURCELIST Value="\\server1\share\Office12;\\server2\share\Office12" /> -->
	<!-- <DistributionPoint Location="\\server\share\Office12" /> -->
	<!-- <OptionState Id="OptionID" State="absent" Children="force" /> -->
	<!-- <Setting Id="Reboot" Value="IfNeeded" /> -->
	<!-- <Command Path="msiexec.exe" Args="/i \\server\share\my.msi" QuietArg="/q" ChainPosition="after" Execute="install" /> -->

</Configuration>

The custom Setup should give you a different username and company.

Edited July 8, 2009 by tik