Office 2003

[Gigilatrottola74]

Hi Everybody... I'm a new member of this forum...

I have a little problem with office 2003.

Since I saw Office 2003 divided in 5 cds, I decided to create a dvd in which i can also put money and mappoint applications.

I did the autorun interface menu with autoplay media studio 5, and I configured well the upgrade of the single office applications with each service pack.

But now that I would like to configure the silent install, after creating the unattended.mst file, I do not reach anyway my goal.. I tried inserting the code TRANSFORMS=Unattended.mst /qb- into the properties of the button that launches the setup.

I read about a batch file, but I do not still understand in which folder I have to put this batch file, and how it should interact with the setup file.. I hope someone could help me!!

Thanks a lot..

Gigilatrottola

[tguy]

To run the installation silently the way you have your current command line set up, you will need to make sure that your Unattended.mst is in the same directory as the SETUP.EXE for Office 2003.

If you were to create a batch file you could put the .bat or .cmd file anywhere you want, call it from the setup button as long as the path in the batch file points to the directory where the Office 2003 setup.exe and Unattended.mst files are located.

For example:

Say you have a directory on your CD called Apps. Inside the Apps folder you have another folder for the Office 2003 installation files called say O2K3. This is where the setup.exe and unattended.mst files will reside.

First you need to define your %CDROM% variable. There are plenty of examples of this on this forum.

Here is a quick look:

SET CDROM=

IF EXIST D:\install\apps.cmd SET CDROM=D:

IF EXIST E:\install\apps.cmd SET CDROM=E:

IF EXIST F:\install\apps.cmd SET CDROM=F:

IF EXIST G:\install\apps.cmd SET CDROM=G:

IF EXIST H:\install\apps.cmd SET CDROM=H:

IF EXIST I:\install\apps.cmd SET CDROM=I:

IF EXIST J:\install\apps.cmd SET CDROM=J:

IF EXIST K:\install\apps.cmd SET CDROM=K:

You could put your batch file to install Office 2003 in %CDROM%\Apps and call it o2k3setup.bat.

Inside the o2k3setup.bat you would initiate the installation string something like this:

@echo off

echo Installing Microsoft Office 2003, please wait....

echo .

start /wait %CDROM%\Apps\O2K3\setup.exe transforms=unattended.mst /qb-

Your setup button on your menu would then point to %CDROM%\Apps\o2k3setup.bat

Hope this helps.

[Gigilatrottola74]

I'll try... thanks for help.... Hope this will work...