Office/Publisher XP deployment - where to put CD-Key?

[BrandonM7]

We're trying to push out Office XP and Publisher 2002 through typical AD deployment methods (group policy pointing toward the msi and mst) - works fine, but we can't figure out where to put the CD Key so that it doesn't have to be entered when the app is run the first time - we thought it should go in the setup.ini that the package wizard looked at, but have yet to find where to put it.

Any help would be great, thanks.

Brandon M.

 

[rgzimmer]

You should do an administrative installation. setup /a

All subsequent installations from this point will come from there and need no key. The drawback is that that is the point that needs to have support packs installed, which is easy, but not well documented.

 

[BrandonM7]

Cool - thanks.

 

[wibbe]

Use Custom Installation Wizard (found in ResourceKit for Office).
This program will help you make a .MST file with all youre installation options.
On the page named "Modefy Setup Properties" in the wizard.
Add a key named "pidkey" and set the value to the produktID.
Exclude the dash (not XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXX only XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX).
Save the .MST in the same directoty as the .MSI file.

Create the GPO and chose "advanced published or assigned".
On the Template tab, add the .MST file.

I recommend to apply this policy to computers and not users.
This will work for allmost any MS software, not only office.

// Wibbe