Office 2003 Unattended Question

[RichTJ99]

Hi,

I am trying to add an office 2003 unattended install. I went through the steps on the unattended website.

I copied the cab files & other files to:

C:\xpcd\$OEM$\$1\Install\office2003

I also had the Unattended.MST file made & is sitting in the same folder.

My runonceex.cmd file reads (I dumped most of the other stuff out):

cmdow @ /HID
@echo off

SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Slipstreamed Applications" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Preparing Installation..." /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\prepare.cmd" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\050 /VE /D "Dreamweaver MX 2004" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Dreamweaver\setup.exe -s" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 2 /D "taskkill.exe /F /IM IEXPLORE.EXE" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\055 /VE /D "Office 2003 Professional" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\055 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-"

REG ADD %KEY%\060 /VE /D "Cleaning Up and Rebooting..." /f
REG ADD %KEY%\060 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\cleanup.cmd" /f

EXIT

Office doesnt actually install. Any ideas why?

I had originally tried it with the /f command added:

REG ADD %KEY%\055 /VE /D "Office 2003 Professional" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\055 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" /f

But it doesnt work either way.

Am I doing something wrong? Should I set the runonceex.cmd to run a office.cmd file that has this command:

ECHO.
ECHO Installing Office 2003 Professional with Frontpage
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-

Taken from the http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/office2003_advanced.htm page

Thanks,

Rich

[r4v3n]

My slipstreamed Office 2003 (eng) and Swedish proof install works nice. Here is the code I use:

REG ADD %KEY%\065 /VE /D "MS Office 2003 English" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\065 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Office\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\067 /VE /D "MS Office 2003 Swedish Proof." /f
REG ADD %KEY%\067 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Office\Proof\PTKSetup.exe TRANSFORMS=SweProof.MST /qb-" /f

I install from CDRom because I don't want the setup files copied to the hard drive. My Office installation is in the Office folder on the CD and the Proof is in a subfolder of that. Here is the code I have on the top to find the CDRom:

cmdow @ /HID
@echo off

IF EXIST D:\win51 set CDROM=D:
IF EXIST E:\win51 set CDROM=E:
IF EXIST F:\win51 set CDROM=F:
IF EXIST G:\win51 set CDROM=G:
IF EXIST H:\win51 set CDROM=H:
IF EXIST I:\win51 set CDROM=I:
IF EXIST J:\win51 set CDROM=J:
IF EXIST K:\win51 set CDROM=K:

Hope it helps you. Else you have to reinstall Office 2003 on your machine and go through the MST generation again.

Best regards

Niklas

[r4v3n]

I have another question. Does anyone knows how to set the default language to some other than English(US). In my case I want the default to be set to Swedish and also English(UK) as non-default and remove English(US).

[cookyboy]

run the setup.exe from the run cmd with the /a switch i.e E:\office\setup.exe /a

this will install in administrative mode. type in your serial and complete install.

ensure you install in a folder other than program files i.e desktop\office.

once installed you can install silently by running the PRO11.MSI file with the /qb switch, ie PRO11.MSI /qb BINGO this should do it!!

[gfincher]

Your command string looks correct. To troubleshoot, remove the "-" from "/qb-" to see what the error is. Also, when you ran the Custom Installation Wizard to create your MST, did you include a Product ID & check the EULA checkbox? If you don't do that it will silently fail.

Hope this helps!

gfincher

[XKnoppix]

I am having a very similar problem. When is gets to Office 2003 on my runonceex, it says initializing office 2003... yeah yeah yeah... then just skips to the next item, and doesn't install i have this code

REG ADD %KEY%\077 /VE /D "MS Office 2003" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\077 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Applications\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" /f

And all of the files off the CD are copied into the /Office2003/ folder. Please help. Thanks alot

[quotee]

Try this...

"%CDROM%\Applications\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=%CDROM%\Applications\Office2003\Unattended.MST /qn"

you have to give an information, where your unattended.MST is located

greetz

quotee

Edited August 9, 2005 by quotee