Problem with silent office 2003, RunonceEX & cmdli

[suisse]

hi

Trying to run office 2003 in a cmdlines.txt batch

start /wait c:\Apps\MSOffice2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=c:\Apps\MSOffice2003\silent.mst /qb-

and also tried with a runonceex key

MST working fine but as soon as I use the /qb- switch in the batch, MSI is stopping and scripts are going on.

It seems as the MSI send an "finished" (code 0) status but it is not finished.

As mentioned: running the MSI without /qb- works perfectly.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

Olivier

[ALiAS_2004]

Hello Suisse,

According to msfn Guide :

If in your CD you havee $OEM$\$1\Apps\MSOffice2003 as directory then

rename your silent.mst to Unattended.MST

then don't use c: but %systemdrive% more portable install !

ECHO.

ECHO Installing Office 2003 Professional

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\Apps\MSOffice2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-

That's it!

[suisse]

hi

I don't think that is the problem but I will try that.

As I said: the mst is working but no in a script

[Astalavista]

reg add %Key%\085 /VE /D "Microsoft Office 2003" /f
reg add %Key%\085 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" /f
reg add %Key%\085 /V 2 /D "%CDROM%\Software\FrontPage\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" /f
reg add %key%\85  /v 3 /d "%CDROM%\Software\Office2003\shortcuts.exe" /f

just notice your still using the stone age method (batch files)

shift to runonceex

[CoffeeFiend]

reg add %Key%\085 /VE /D "Microsoft Office 2003" /f
reg add %Key%\085 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" /f
reg add %Key%\085 /V 2 /D "%CDROM%\Software\FrontPage\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" /f
reg add %key%\85  /v 3 /d "%CDROM%\Software\Office2003\shortcuts.exe" /f

just notice your still using the stone age method (batch files)

shift to runonceex

It's not stone aged by any means. I personally MUCH prefer GUIRunOnce to RunOnceEx. I'm never switching to that, no thanks.

[suisse]

hi

I found the problem. My Office 2003 License for home use is not able to be runned in silent mode with /qb-

So I can forget that....

That had nothing to do with runex, the script or the rest.

anyway, thx for your help all.

cheers

Olivier