OK - I am trying to create an Administrative Installation of Office 2000 Pro on our Windows 2000 Server for Windows 2000 Pro Clients.
I have read the "Deploying Microsoft Office With Group Policy " FAQ on this but still have a few questions...
1. The FAQ says to use "Start>Run> D:\Setup.exe /a" but the instructions from Microsoft say that you need to specify an MSI file at this point (e.g. D:\Setup.exe /a filename.msi" Do I need to do this? There is an MSI file called "Data1.msi" on the Office CD - do I use this file?
2. What are the Administrative patches mentioned in point 3? - these links no longer work. Are these just patches released since the last Service Pack (i.e. SP3)?
3. The details given in the FAQ for installing a Service Pack on to the Administrative Installtion point also differ from the Microsoft ones, which seem to be "msiexec /p \\server\filename.msp /a \\server\officeinstallation\filename.msi". Which are correct please?
4. Should Microsoft be immediately closed down until they provide decent instructions on how to actually get stuff done?;-)
Many Thanks for any help you can give on this.
I have read the "Deploying Microsoft Office With Group Policy " FAQ on this but still have a few questions...
1. The FAQ says to use "Start>Run> D:\Setup.exe /a" but the instructions from Microsoft say that you need to specify an MSI file at this point (e.g. D:\Setup.exe /a filename.msi" Do I need to do this? There is an MSI file called "Data1.msi" on the Office CD - do I use this file?
2. What are the Administrative patches mentioned in point 3? - these links no longer work. Are these just patches released since the last Service Pack (i.e. SP3)?
3. The details given in the FAQ for installing a Service Pack on to the Administrative Installtion point also differ from the Microsoft ones, which seem to be "msiexec /p \\server\filename.msp /a \\server\officeinstallation\filename.msi". Which are correct please?
4. Should Microsoft be immediately closed down until they provide decent instructions on how to actually get stuff done?;-)
Many Thanks for any help you can give on this.