The Office XP Batch Command

[Shamal]

Im a newbie so need some advise from any of you proffesional IT ppl.

I am trying to do the OFfice XP Unattended - Advanced Method

And asked to do the following;

» Section 4 - The Office XP Batch Command

As you read at the end of Section 3, we needed to change the path in the TRANSFORM syntax in order for it to function.

Below are the full batch commands you can use, so add these lines to your batch file:

ECHO.

ECHO Installing Office XP Professional with Frontpage

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-

I know it must be a real stupid question for you guys, but can you tell me where exactly I add these lines to?? I tried adding it to WINNT.SIF file under [GuiRunOnce] but it doesn't work.

Please help!!!

[ravashaak]

Try adding those lines to a batch file which you call from [GuiRunOnce].

Your winnt.sif file [GuiRunOnce] section might look something like the following:

[GuiRunOnce]
    %systemdrive%\install\start.cmd

Of course, the full path is up to you, so modify it to your liking.

Your start.cmd file (or whatever you wish to name it), would contain your code such as the following:

ECHO.
ECHO Installing Office XP Professional with Frontpage
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-

I know it must be a real stupid question for you guys, but can you tell me where exactly I add these lines to??

Not stupid at all. It's part of the learning process to ask questions. Good luck.

- Ravashaak

[Shamal]

Thanks lots Ravashaak, I've done what you said and got Unattended Office XP working.

Im sure I'll be asking a few more qustions soon as I progress through to the Advance sections of the manual.

Regards,

Shamal

[ravashaak]

Glad to help.

- Ravashaak