Microsoft Office

[Lost Soul]

hi i was working on silently installing microsoft office xp,

my method was the same method used in the unattended guide

like this

setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-

and i came into a strange problem that im not really sure why its happening,, well when the instal gets to this program, everything starts to instal just fine, no errors, no prompts but as i watched it instal further, it almost completes,,, then the progress blocks start to go backwards and uninstals it..

does any one have any ideals on what made this happen the way that it did,,

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

hi i was working on silently installing microsoft office xp,

my method was the same method used in the unattended guide

like this

setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-

and i came into a strange problem that im not really sure why its happening,, well when the instal gets  to this program, everything starts to instal just fine, no errors, no prompts but as i watched it instal further, it almost completes,,, then the progress blocks start to go backwards and uninstals it..

does any one have any ideals on what made this happen the way that it did,,

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah man same deal with me after using the Shrink prog?? Normal install no worries tho?

Asta reckons its a NetFramework prog problem but don't really know?

[Lost Soul]

yea i used nlite to shrink my source alittle but do you really think thats the prob ?

i didnt take anything major out just outlook, windows messenger,msn explorer netmeeting, tours and stuff like that

[Lost Soul]

btw i misunderstood your question let me verify,,, i didnt use the office shrink, nor any methods to shrink my office source,,, thats why this situation is strange to me,,

any other ideals any one

heres the kicker tho,, i can instal it straight to my pc with the command prompt

useing the line

setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-

and it installs perfectly,, but seems to instal most of the way and uninstal inside of my unattended and im using the wpi method

[Lost Soul]

heres a curious question does anybody know if by removing outlook from your unattended,,, will that hinder the ability to instal microsoft office ?

[Dahi]

Did you try it without the /qb- option to see if an error is displayed? It might help track down the problem.

setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST

I've done OfficeXp installs without Outlook, but I havent tried Office2003. However I dont think Outlook is related to your problem.

[Lost Soul]

well looks like your right about it not being outlook related, i just ran a test in vmware with all components still intact and yet the problem still occured,, so ill run another test with the /qb- removed inhopes of seeing an error,, i didnt think to try that thank you

and btw im using microsoft office xp pro with the hotfixes slipstreamed and nothing shrunk

ill let ya know what happens after this next test

thanks

[Lost Soul]

ok ive retested with this cmd line in my runonceex

%systemdrive%\Install\Applications\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST

note i removed the /qb- to see if i could find any errors.. and this is what i got

and the first image is the files i have in my officexp folder

second is the error

does anybody know what im doing wrong or what i should do to hopefully fix this

[bonedaddy]

well this will blow your mind, I had the same problem with Office 2k and to fix it

not only did I have to remove the - I had to add + go figure?

BD

[Lost Soul]

now that is a shocker ill give it a try,,,, lol what have i got to lose

[Dahi]

Wonder why youre getting an error about writing to a logfile?

I thought the default was no logfile, or at least to create one in the Windows folder.

I dont remember the exact option to specify where to make a logfile, but try this.

start "OfficeXP" /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb /Le%SystemDrive%\Office.log

Have you tried this?

SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx
REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "Office XP" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Applications\OfficeXP\SETUP.EXE TRANSFORMS=SetupFile.MST /qb" /f