 I have been playing around with getting the Office 2003 updates integrated into the main installation from a single CD. This is easily done and as we can burn everything to a single CD-R. So, here we go!
Download What We Need
1. Download the initial patches:
Ø Here are the list of updates since the release of Office 2003. Follow this link HERE
Ø You can find Office 2003 Service Pack 1 HERE. You will want to download the file
Office2003SP1-kb842532-fullfile-enu.exe at the bottom of that webpage.
Ø I created the following folder structure for this project:
o C:\temp
o C:\temp\AdminUpdates à Save all updates here
o C:\temp\Office2003 à Office 2003 Admin Install
2. Create Administrative Installation by opening a command prompt and running the following command: E:\setuppro.exe /a PRO11.msi (where E is the drive letter of your CD-Rom drive.
3. Enter the Organization information as well as the Product Key in the following window below.
4. Accept the EULA and click install
Slipstreaming Office 2003 Service Pack 1
1. First we need to extract SP1 to C:\temp\adminUpdates\officeSP1\ by running the following command: C:\temp\adminupdates\office2003sp1-kb842532-fullfile-enu.exe /c /t:c:\temp\AdminUpdates\OfficeSP1\
2. Now to slipstream SP1 into the Office 2003 Installation run the following command: c:\msiexec /a c:\temp\office2003\pro11.msi /p c:\temp\adminupdates\Office2003sp1\mainsp1ff.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1
Updates Updates Updates
1. Download each update below and save to the C:\temp\Adminupdates directory.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;870765
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;870774
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;873362
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;887982
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;890854
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;887980
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;885828
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;891067
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;892236
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;887979
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;894384
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;896999
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;895658
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;902953
2. Here is how I saved them in that temp directory. I numbered them so I could remember the order they are to be installed.
3. Now we will need to start slipstreaming the patches into the office install. To do this we will need to leverage the Microsoft Installer technology (MSI). I will not get into MSI technology here but show you what you need to do in order to update your Office installation.
4. Extract each update to the proper directory. Do this by using the following command: C:\temp\adminupdates\FILENAME.exe /C /T:C:\temp\AdminUpdates\FILENAME\ where the FILENAME is the name of the update you need to extract. See the example below:
5. Do this for each update
6. In order to update the Office install you will need to update it patch by patch to do this you will use the following command: msiexec /a C:\temp\Office2003\Pro11.msi /p c:\adminupdate\UpdateFolder\MSP file.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1
7. You will replace MSP File with the name of the MSP file in the update directory as seen in the example below:
8. Repeat this process until every update has been added.
Burn Baby Burn!
1. Now you will need to use whatever CD burning software you have to burn the C:\temp\office2003 directory to CD.
2. Burn the contents of the C:\temp\office2003 directory to a CD-R. Make sure you burn the contents of the Office2003 directory that way the CD will still be able to autostart. I use Nero and you can see how the CD should look in the image below:
Conclusion:
Once the CD is burned you can use that CD as a fully functioning Office 2003 Pro CD with all the updates you have added. Since I wrote this article Service Pack 2 came out. (Of course it comes out September 27th 2005 after I had finished it). However you can apply the same theories and practices written here with updating Service Pack 2 and post SP2 updates. You will want to apply SP1 then SP2 then any post SP2 updates.
Questions? Comments? Let me know!
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