Office 2k hotfix switch help please

[tarquel]

Hi all

Just a quick question or two here:

What are the switches (the ones that arent listed with /?) for the hotfixes available for Office 2000 (Pro)?

I've tried the usual:

O2k\Olk0901.EXE /q:u /r:n

and it works fine except at the end I get a prompt to click ok after it installs successfully - which is no good as i want it unattended.

I'm trying for a normal batch script here i.e.

ECHO --- Installing Outlook 2000 Update: December 18, 2002 > c:\windows\logs\o2k\Olk0901.txt

ECHO - Installing Outlook 2000 Update: December 18, 2002

ECHO.

start /wait U:\O2k\Olk0901.EXE /q:u /r:n >> c:\windows\logs\o2k\Olk0901.txt

IF ERRORLEVEL=255 GOTO ERROR

ECHO --- Outlook 2000 Update: December 18, 2002 install Completed! >> c:\windows\logs\o2k\Olk0901.txt

ECHO - Outlook 2000 Update: December 18, 2002 install Completed!

ECHO.

ECHO.

I cant for the life of me remember the other options instead of /q:u and i presume the /r:n is fine for all the hotfixes too.

Any ideas on this?

Also, the administrative point i've set up to install Office 2000 Pro has SP3 slipstreamed already so how would I add the hotfixes to that admin point?

Is -a <locationofadminpoint> enough?

Many thanks for any help given and I have tried to find out this already but with no luck.

Best regards,

N.

[tguy]

Try /qn. I believe it represents quiet mode, no display of dialogs.

[tarquel]

No good...

Tried:

/qn /r:n

/q:n /r:n

neither worked - got a command line option syntax error message

Thanks,

N.

[tguy]

Hi, first of all make sure you get the right version of the download for your install. There are usually two separate files for client and administrative installations.

Reference this MS KB article to get the syntax for the command line switches.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=197147

tguy

[tarquel]

first of all make sure you get the right version of the download for your install. There are usually two separate files for client and administrative installations.

hehe I know this obviously but I'm trying to say that I dont know my app swtches very well (yet) hehe

I am presuming that its due to ohotfix.exe which is obviously different to update.exe found in most windows hotfixes so its the old horrible IExpress packaged type using ohotfix.exe.

Just tried:

Olk0901.exe /q:a /r:n /c:" ohotfix -q -z"

which gave me the error of "An error occured while obtaining the settings. The update cannot be applied. and it was from the Office Hotfix Installer so that was nearer to it but no luck.

Have tried it like:

Olk0901.exe /q:a /r:n /c:" ohotfix"

which does the same as running the file without any switches.

In the packaged file, it unpacks and has a ini file that gives it commands. I just cant see how to get around that short of manually changing each ini file and repackaging it - which just isnt worth my time lol

Am going home now but any ideas on what switches to use would be most welcome

Many thanks and I've an idea how to update the admin point but its just this script that i want to set up now.

Thanks,

N.

[tguy]

This link might help too. http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/journ/ohotfix.htm

Basically you will need to extract Ohotfix to a temp directory and then extract each hotfix patch to that same directory.

Then create a batch file that will copy the files into your installation replacing the originals. It is a fairly manual task but with batch files you should be able to accomplish it successfully.