Office 2003 AIP SP1 slipstream

[nvbauer]

Hello All,

I have been banging my head against the wall for about two weeks on this.

I deployed Office 2003 via GP and an AIP back in the summer. I ran into a problem that SP1 solved so I decided to do it. I wrote a batch file of which the contents are below:

set log=/lV*+ \\mydomain\zInstalls\updatelog.txt

set admin=\\mydomain\zInstalls

set msiexec=msiexec /p

set adminupdate=\\mydomain\AdminUpdate\Office2003SP1

REM  OFFICE Pro 

    %msiexec% %adminupdate%\MAINSP1ff.msp /a %admin%\Office2003Pro\PRO11.MSI /qb+ SHORTFILENAME=1 %log%
    %msiexec% %adminupdate%\OWC11SP1ff.msp /a %admin%\Office2003Pro\OWC11.MSI /qb+ SHORTFILENAME=1 %log%

REM %msiexec% %admin%\Office2003Pro\PRO11.MSI /qb+ /p %adminupdate%\MAINSP1ff.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1 %log%
REM %msiexec% %admin%\Office2003Pro\OWC11.MSI /qb+ /p %adminupdate%\OWC11SP1ff.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1 %log%


REM OFFICE Standard
    %msiexec% %adminupdate%\MAINSP1ff.msp /a %admin%\Office2003Standard\Std11.MSI /qb+ SHORTFILENAME=1 %log%
    %msiexec% %adminupdate%\OWC11SP1ff.msp /a %admin%\Office2003Standard\OWC11.MSI /qb+ SHORTFILENAME=1 %log%

All went well, or so I thought. I put a brand new computer on the network, added it to the OfficeProComputers group in AD, rebooted, and watched as Windows starts the install and then quickly dies.

Checking the event log it gives me this error.

Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Application Management
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	102
Date:  12/6/2004
Time:  7:57:09 AM
User:  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer:	MYCPU
Description:
The install of application Microsoft Office Professional 2003 Full from policy Office 2003 Installation failed.  The error was : The installation source for this product is not available.  Verify that the source exists and that you can access it. 

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I have googled and MSKnowlege based till my eyes poped out and I can't figure out what I did wrong. I've tried it on two other computers that had office 2003 preSP1 installed and it will remove the installation (because the cache is out of synch).

I can't redeploy this untill I confirm that it is working correctly, so that's out of the question.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Norm

[prathapml]

Hi nvbauer,

Welcome to MSFN forums!

Please make yourself clearer. All those details and background is fine, but give a one-line sentence (summary) at the end, telling *WHAT EXACTLY* you want us to help you to do.

Otherwise, you just have a whole lot of uncertain things above, and you'll simply be pointed to this guide - click here.

[nvbauer]

I'd like to know:

1. How to get my Administrative Installation Point to install office via Group Policy again?

2. Why it is no longer allowing ANY computer to install office?

Oh and I forgot to mention that I was able to install Office if I went to the share and double clicked Setup.exe. Which then gets uninstalled on the next boot.

Thanks for the fast reply

[nvbauer]

Resolution:

After many a day of going roud for round on this here is what I had to do to get SP1 working via Group Policy.

1. Copy the existing AIP to a new directory.

2. Apply the slipstreamed patch to the copied AIP.

3. Create a new group in AD and a new GP for that group using the new slipstreamed .MSI.

4. Mover computers from the pre-SP1 group to the new group.

** The old MST transforme worked fine, so there was no need to create a new one.

When you think about it, this is much better way to deploy the AIP than the sugessted method by MSFT. Rather than "redeploy" via group policy, where all computers get update at once. I can now roll it out over a periode of time and my Server will thank me for it.