Hotfixes for Office 2003 SP2 are NOT slipstreaming.

[fragbert]

Hello, after following the instructions on the unattended guide to integrate SP2 into Office 2003 (which works and installs fine) the last steps to integrate any hotfixes (in this case, three patches released after SP2) fail to slipstream. I even extracted each hotfix and slipstreamed them one by one rather than using the .cmd's offered on the Office 2003 section of the guide and it still would not integrate (MS update still marks these three fixes as critical updates to download).

The three post-SP2 hotfixes are:

KB892843

KB905648

KB907417

Any ideas? Is there a new method to install O2K3 hotfixes post-SP2?

Thanks.

[cyberloner]

i use batch file for that...

[RogueSpear]

I believe that they ARE slipstreaming. I think the problem is either a bug in MS Update or the slipstreaming process isn't importing the registry entries to indicate that they're installed. Testing all of this out has been on my to do list for a while now, but it's just always being shoved aside.

[fragbert]

I believe that they ARE slipstreaming. I think the problem is either a bug in MS Update or the slipstreaming process isn't importing the registry entries to indicate that they're installed. Testing all of this out has been on my to do list for a while now, but it's just always being shoved aside.

PROBLEM SOLVED - editing the .ini for each hotfix so that IsNormalUpdate=0 fixed the issue. It seems with these new post SP2 hotfixes that you must specify that these are being integrated into administrative install points, else the hotfix will install in "normal" mode.

Problem NOT solved. Crap still happens.

Edited March 10, 2006 by fragbert

[ZileXa]

How come I read averywhere you MUST use the FULL SP2? I succesfully slipstreamed my Dutch Office2003 pro with SP2 CLIENT. shrinked/installed/worked perfectly.

[RogueSpear]

PROBLEM SOLVED - editing the .ini for each hotfix so that IsNormalUpdate=0 fixed the issue. It seems with these new post SP2 hotfixes that you must specify that these are being integrated into administrative install points, else the hotfix will install in "normal" mode.

Well I don't about the .ini file, but I use the standard Microsoft prescribed msiexec command line sequence to apply patches to my AIP and all goes well. I can even verify the files were patched and updated, but still Microsoft Update claims that the hotfixes still need to be downloaded and installed. My guess is that it's a Microsoft Update issue as opposed to the .msp files not slipstreaming.

[fragbert]

I tried MS's official newsgroups and surprisingly nobody there had an answer. Anybody still have these problems like me?

[ajua]

just use a cmd file and install the updates with this swtches:

START /WAIT UPDATE1.EXE Q:A R:N

START /WAIT UPDATE2.EXE Q:A R:N

START /WAIT UPDATE3.EXE Q:A R:N

this is the way i install the after-sp2 updates without any problem so far.

[thuun derboy]

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=60948

I posted info there

Windows Update doesn't think there installed?

Register Office Update Engine DLL, then go to Office Update Site to REALLY see!