Office 2003 Service Pack 2! Oh Yeah

[prathapml]

I keep Word+Excel : SP2

After 7zipping & SFX'ing, its 25 MB.

[Wesmosis]

@prathampl

I see...............25 mbs is quite reseanable size

so can anyone tell me what the smallest size can someone get by shrinkig (word+access+powerpoint+excel+sp2)?!

I tried the Astalavista method for OVER-shrinking the BuckyEYEs 7zip, but I failed! I got the same size

[prathapml]

can anyone tell me what the smallest size can someone get by shrinkig (word+access+powerpoint+excel+sp2)?!

60-80 MB.

I tried the Astalavista method for OVER-shrinking the BuckyEYEs 7zip, but I failed! I got the same size

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You need to start from scratch, to do it properly.

[cybpsych]

:: Mainsp2.msp -> Applies to Office 2003

::Owc11sp2.msp -> Applies to Office 2003 Web Components

:: Owc102003sp2.msp -> Applies to Office XP Web Components

[coucou]

Finally i got success to update SP2.

I want to share the how to update a Slipstreamed Office 2003 SP1 to SP2.

Use the excellent guide on how to Office 2003 - Slipstreaming

We don't need the "Section 1 - Creating an Administrative Installation Point"

Go directly to "Section 2 - The Slipstreaming Process"

Copy the Slipstreamed Office 2003 files in X:\Office2003\

Unpack the Service Pack 2 in X:\Office2003\SP2

Unpack the Outlook 2003 Junk E-Mail Filter update (KB904631) in X:\Office2003\Updtaes

Then run the appropriate commands

Slipstreaming Service Pack 2

msiexec /p X:\Office2003\SP2\MAINSP2ff.msp /a C:\Office2003\PRO11.MSI SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb
msiexec /p X:\Office2003\SP2\OWC11SP2ff.msp /a X:\Office2003\OWC11.MSI SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb

Slipstreaming the Junk E-Mail Filter Update (KB904631)

msiexec /p X:\Office2003\Updtaes\OUTLFLTR.msp /a X:\Office2003\PRO11.MSI SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb

That's it

coucou

[Zxian]

Hmm... when I do that... My folder jumps from 400MB (Office, no SP) to 1GB!

When I make the administrative install I get 634MB after slipstreaming.

[evilvoice]

Zxian, are you slipstreaming AFTER you make an admin install? My admin install is approx 600mb (dont remember the real size) and slipping doesnt really change the size...i can only think that youre doing something wrong.

[Zxian]

If I take a non-admin install and slipstream SP2 into it, I get 1GB.

With an adminstrative install point it goes from about 620MB to 634MB, which is to expected (patching most files, adding a few more).

[coucou]

It's normal. That what i obtained after slipstreaming.

after archiving to .exe with 7zip i got 240MB.

coucou

[Zxian]

@coucou - Had you already created an adminstrative install point to make your Office 2003 SP1? or did you buy Office with SP1 already included?

[coucou]

@Zxian: As i wrote above, a year ago, I created an adminstrative install point to slipstream my Office 2003 to Office 2003 SP1

coucou

[Zxian]

Oh... I thought you were working from scratch. Never mind then...

[bjp100679]

I recently got my O2K3 SP2 slipstreamed with all of the current updates. So far, it's working great.

On occasion, before I did this, when I double-clicked on an Excel file, it would take almost 30 seconds to load. This is on a 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 system, so for the most part, anything opens in about a second or two. But when it did this, it's almost as if my system completely froze during the wait. Double-clicking again would give me the "program is not responding" message, although waiting would eventually open the file. The version I was using before was not SP1. Should SP2 fix this? I hope so, but I'm not sure; noticed the same behavior when I was using Office XP, which was months ago.

[Shamwari]

Can anyone point me to the 7zip method of shrinking? Do you have to put anything into the commands section? My search of this section of the forum only came back with the buckeyeXP method.

Just found it, sorry, I didn't look far enough down past buckeyeXP's method.

[Wesmosis]

Hey guyz, when I unrar the Office2003SP2-KB887616-Client-ENU.exe (49.3 MBs):

I got those files

MAINsp2op.msp

OWC11SP2op.msp

OWC102003SP2op.msp

plus other inf files,

I'm wondering about the (op) suffix coz the slipstreaming process didn't work for me by

msiexec /p C:\SP2\MAINSP2ffop.msp /a C:\Office2003\PRO11.msi SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb
msiexec /p C:\SP2\OWC11SP2ffop.msp /a C:\Office2003\OWC11.MSI SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb

Did i download something wrong? although I remove the op from the above 3 files to look like SP1 files I failed.....any idea what's going on?

Edited October 12, 2005 by Wesmosis