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Deploying Microsoft Office 2007 with Altiris Deployment Solution 6.X 

Aug 24, 2010 01:53 PM

In order to deploy Microsoft Office 2007, we must create a custom msp file and store it in the Updates folder of the Microsoft Office 2007 Install Folder. Microsoft changed their Office deployment strategy drastically from Microsoft Office 2003.

Prerequisites

  • Office 2007 Volume License DVD
  • Office 2007 Volume License Key

Creating the Microsoft Specific Deployment Files

Custom MSP File Creation

In order to create the custom msp file, you must run the Microsoft Office 2007 setup program with the /admin option

  • Click on Start–>Run and run cmd
  • Navigate to the directory of Microsoft Office 2007 and run setup.exe/admin
  • Set your settings according to your companies install
  • Save the msp file, then copy this to the Updates folder
  • Below are a sample of settings that are a minimum to be filled out to create a silent installation

Using Altiris Deployment Solution 6.X

  • Create a folder in the express share of the Altiris DS server; in this case it isSoftware\MSOffice2k7
  • Copy all of the Microsoft Office 2007 DVD to this folder
  • Create a new job called Deploy Microsoft Office 2007

  • Click Add and choose Run Script
  • Type the following code into the Script box:
net use z: \\hqsav01\eXpress z:\Software\MSOffice2k7\setup.exe
/config z:\Software\MSOffice2k7\ProPlus.WW\config.xml /adminfile
z:\Software\MSOffice2k7\Updates\custPro.msp net use z: /delete

 

  • Click the Next button
  • Under the client run environment, change it to use a specific user that has read access to the network share; in this case \\hqsav01\eXpress

  • Click Finish

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Sep 04, 2010 03:34 PM

Hello Everyone,

This method looks pretty slick. In our IT department we are handling this a different way . This is cleaner and I cant wait to give it a try . We do not have Office 2010 yet, but I will try it on 2007.  Great article!

thanks , mike

Aug 25, 2010 03:34 PM

Great article! I've found that the first half for creating the MSP works for Visio, Project etc also. It's also a good idea if you have other MSP update files that are in the update folder (such as patches) run after the msp file you created above. They run in alphabetical order.

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