ender51282 Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 I am working on trying to setup a completely unattended install of windows, office, etc. the problem i am having is that i have the Retail office 2003 STE, which will not allow administrative installation points, not quiet installs. Does anyone know of a way around this? I saw a reference that there was one, but i have spent 5 hours reading the forums, and could not find hide nor hair of it. Thanks in advance!Ender Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender51282 Posted February 22, 2005 Author Share Posted February 22, 2005 with a little bit of help from elsewhere, i was able to solve my own problem, and also to fix a few others for those who would like the info, here it is. In advance though, this is most likely violating the EULAi did this in orca, if you need it look hereThe First step is to install Orca, then to open up the MSI for your version of Office. Mine was STE.follow these instructions to allow Administrative Install PointsOnce inside, do a search for 'SLASH_A' everytime except in the Properties section, where there is a 'SLASH_A = ' binary value, swap it for it's opposite (1 for 0, 0 for 1)for allowing Quiet Mode installs, the instructions are the same, except for 2 things:1) IT's SLASH_Q instead of SLASH_A2) It checks twice for quite mode permissions. for the UI LEVEL option, either reverse the greater for Lesser than (or vice versa), or just delete that whole section out of the keyEx. 'UILevel < 5 AND SLASH_Q=0' would become either'UILevel > 5 AND SLASH_Q=1'or'SLASH_Q=1'To allow Transforms, you need to do the same thing to the CIWSUPP Option. There is also a CMWSUPP that I do not know what it does, but did the same to also.Hope this will be helpful to someone else, any questions or comments, please let me knowEnder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 office2k3 install - remove restrictions from STEHoping this helps....Oops, posted too late - saw you already found a solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoJ Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Althought this post has been inactive for a while its been of invaluable assistanceI thought i would just maybe try to add a bit more info if for any future use;the CIWSUPP is probablyCustom Installation Wizard SUPPorthense the reason why this table entry in the msi would need to be set in order to support mst transformsand the CMWSUPP is probablyCustom Maintenance Wizard SUPPortwhich are modifications done after the installationA big thanks to ender51282 for this information! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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