Office Service Packs And Web Components

[MartinaL]

HI,

I don't want to install office itself but i do need to install the webcomponents and SP1 and SP2 for office.

Can i run these from RunOnceEx? if so what switches would I need to use?

Thanks

[prathapml]

I believe the required switch is "/Q"

If not, then it has to be "/QB" or "/QN".

[MartinaL]

Thanks, i tried these and ran it again, but for the office web components i get and error message "cann't find office1.cab" (I am running the OWC10.msi to install these) and for the service packs I get the error message "Command line option syntax error. Type command/? for help".

Any idea what these problems come from? These are the sections of code from the RunOnceEx.exe file.

REG ADD %KEY%\058 /VE /D "Office XP Webcomponents" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\058 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\OXPWebComp\OWC10.msi /QB" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\059 /VE /D "Office XP ServicePack1" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\059 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\OXPWebComp\oxpsp1.exe /QB" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\060 /VE /D "Office XP ServicePack2" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\060 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\OXPWebComp\oxpsp2.exe /QB" /f

Can you see anything wrong??

[prathapml]

Type command/? for help

So did you try it? What does it say when you run that?

Also, "/Q" will work.....

[MartinaL]

When I type command/? in a command line it says

Starts a new instance of the MS-DOS command interpreter.

COMMAND [[drive:]path] [device] [/E:nnnnn] [/P] [/C string] [/MSG]

  [drive:]path    Specifies the directory containing COMMAND.COM file.

  device          Specifies the device to use for command input and output.

  /E:nnnnn        Sets the initial environment size to nnnnn bytes.

  /P              Makes the new command interpreter permanent (can't exit).

  /C string      Carries out the command specified by string, and then stops.

  /MSG            Specifies that all error messages be stored in memory. You

                  need to specify /P with this switch.

Any ideas? This dosn't mean much to me.

So how come /Q would work but not /QB??

[prathapml]

Great! Absolutely great!

How come it did not occur that the command to be run was this?

oxpsp2.exe /?

[MartinaL]

Thanks, that helped with that section anyway.

But with the web componenets, if i add the cab file to the folder it is way to large and puts the size of the cd way to high.

Is there anyway of getting around having the cab file witht he OWC10.msi file?

[MartinaL]

HOw do i stop the prompts coming up after service pack 1 and 2 are (OfficeXP) are installed which says something along the lines of them being succesfully installed? YOu have to click ok before it will move onto the next application install.

Here is the code that I using.

REG ADD %KEY%\059 /VE /D "Office XP ServicePack1" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\059 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\OXPWebComp\oxpsp1.exe /Q" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\060 /VE /D "Office XP ServicePack2" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\060 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\OXPWebComp\oxpsp2.exe /Q" /f