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Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 6:38:36 AM   
ridvan

 

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Actually i looked almost in every forum, also surfed around "TechNet" for few days !!! but still havent found nothing, "How To Deploy Office 2007 with System Center Configuration Manager"

If Anyone, knows any manual... or a self experience ?! how to do that, i would be very thankfull,

Regards,

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 9:00:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Have you been able to manually deploy Office 2k7 in an automatted/unattended fashion yet?  If not start there and the SCCM deploy should be a breeze.  That is a guess as I do not have that version yet.

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 9:00:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi,
here is a manual how to deploy Office 2007 under SMS2003:

There is nearly the same workflow like in SCCM2007.

Have you deployed other Software with SCCM?

vity

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 9:13:51 AM   
ridvan

 

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Status: offline 		Answer to Rtuss:
Yes i am able to deploy manually office 2007, also i am able to deploy it with a signle line command, which calls XML (for configuration) and *.MSP files for setup, (MSP file i createt from admin console of office 2007 setup.exe /admin)

Answer to vity:
Actually i already have that manual, but it aint worth nothing, i dont know did you read it or not, but i strongly sugest you do not read it IT IS WASTE OF TIME, this manuall has nothing to do with technical side, all what is saying is benefit from deploying with SMS 2003,

Vity, i do mass deployment with SCCM, i already made a 50 or more,  packages and all of them are fully functional, (all of them are importetd from *.MSI packages)

But with OFFICE 2007, i'am STUCK !!! Dont have a clue what to do or try next...

If you run admin console, of OFFICE 2007, it will export  *.MSP file which is not supported by SCCM. 

Thanks for share guys,  "But i still havent found what im looking for" (U2)

Regards,
Ridvan 

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 9:31:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		Okay,
in Office 2007 it is new to create *.MSP file with the "SETUP.EXE  /admin" switch for customizing the Office installation.

This *.MSP file you put in the UPDATES folder of your Office 2007 installation files and call only the SETUP.EXE.
It will automatically look in the UPDATES folder if there are custom installation files and installs the Office like you have defined in tha1 *.MSP.

Also when you make a program im SCCM you only call SETUP.EXE without any attributes.

Hope this helps you.

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 9:41:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		ok  Vity, thnx...

Lets get this straight, i made a MSP config file, costumized for our corporate need, now can you tell me please, what should it be the RUN Command in SCCM.

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 9:48:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just skimmed through teh doc vity mentioned and I would agree, not much help in this scenario.  For a beginer with SMS 2003 yes.
What are you trying to do with the msp file?  Is it not in the Updates folder?  Office 2007 will automatically apply teh msp file(s) as long as they are in the updates folder.  Do you already have a package for Office 2k7 created in SCCM?  Is it the creation of the program that is giving you trouble?  In our environment we RARELY use an exe or msi as the program.  We almost always use a vbscript.  You could use a batch file if you are not familiar with vbscript.  We find it allows us to have better control over the application install and local logging.  We rarely use the sms client logs for anything.  We use the log files created by our install scripts.  We even have a web page that will query a given system and report back the last 20 SMS actions on the system, this one uses the sms client info though.  We also have one for our in house script logs.  I have rambled on long enough, sorry about that.

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 9:58:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		The command to run Office 2007 is only "SETUP.EXE"

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 10:05:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		Rtruss,

Dont know about your enviroment, but in our enviroment no one is administrator in their computers, ( i mean for clients) so if you try to run VBS scripts, and BAT Scripts, they all run with same credential as current user is loged in... so if you want to install office 2007, with BAT or VBS, it will not work, because users do not have privileged credential for installing application... i am quiet sure about this, because i already test it, so SCCM, dose not uses admin rights for executing BAT&VBS Scripts, but it runes under same loged on user credential.

Vity,
Thanks i will try it right now, and i also puted the customized MSP file in UPDATES folder, so i will inform you what is going on.

Thanks very much guys,

Regards,
Ridvan

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 10:28:41 AM   
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If what you say is true then nothing you deploy should install.  There is an option when creating the program to run with admin rights, just like in SMS 2003.  It is under the environment tab.




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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 10:35:49 AM   
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Yes its true :) i dont know how or why is that ?! but try something that requires administrative privileges and put it on BAT file, than make that BAT file run with SCCM in a client when the user loged on has no priviliges, and you will see it wont work, (with BAT&VBS dose not applies that option, "run with administrative rights")

Ok maybe i did something wrong :) but as long as i remember it wont work, neither in SMS, nor SCCM.

Regards,
P.S Trying to deploy Office 2k7... as per Viy instruction. 

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 10:40:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		vbscripts is how we deploy apps, including offcie 2007.  We always use teh "run with admin priv" option and have never had any issues.  If it is not working for you you may have some other issues.

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/13/2008 10:46:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		After talking with a colleauge I was reminded that in order for things to work properly we had to modify our DP share security to allow the client computers SYSTEM account access to the files, which is how SMS runs with admin rights.  It uses the local SYSTEM account on the clients.  It was soo long ago when we did that I completely forgot about it.  That would explain why that option was not working for you.

Here is a snapshot of our SMS distribution share from one of our servers, note the highlighted account.




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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/14/2008 8:28:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		Dears,

Today i saw that office 2007, is not installed on my test enviroment, and when examine event logs, i saw that the problem is in "cache size": 

The program for the advertisement "01020067" ("0100003B" - "Office 2007") requires package content to be downloaded, but the total cache size is smaller than the size of the package content.
The current cache size is 250 MB, and 71 MB of cache space is available. This program requires 2674 MB to be available in the cache.
Solution: Increase the size of the cache.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

...and guess what !!! as i surfed around forums, i found that to change cache size, you have to do that manually, to all clients... so as far as i understood there is no way to change caching size from SCCM Console, (which is really painfull to change all one by one)

Now i changed manually to 1 client the cache size and let's see what is going on ?!

In meantime, if any one of you knows any smarter way to change cache size to all clients, please tell me... i would kindly appriciate your help until now

Deppest Regards,
Ridvan

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/14/2008 9:00:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		here is a bit of vbscript code to change the local SMS cache:

On Error Resume Next
Dim oUIResManager
Dim oCache
Dim CacheSize
CacheSize=750
Set oUIResManager = createobject("UIResource.UIResourceMgr")
If oUIResManager Is Nothing Then
    'wscript.echo "Could not create Resource Manager - quitting"
    wscript.quit
End If
Set oCache=oUIResManager.GetCacheInfo()
If oCache Is Nothing Then
    Set oUIResManager=Nothing
    'wscript.echo "Could not get cache info - quitting"
    wscript.quit
End If
oCache.TotalSize=CacheSize

We use this with other packages and on its own when needed.

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/14/2008 10:33:03 AM   
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you can also use the SCCM right click tools to change the cache size of Clients in an Collection. It is very useful :)

http://www.blogcastrepository.com/blogs/sccm_2007_blog_by_rick_houchins/archive/2008/03/05/sccm-console-right-click-tools.aspx

Regards,
Vity

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/14/2008 2:16:51 PM   
ridvan

 

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Status: offline 		Rtrus  & Vity... Both of them works, VBS also CofigMgrTools, Thanks bros :)

But the bad thing is :( that Office 2007 seems to HATE my clients :), i still could not deploy it.
Let me describe the steps that i have taken:
1. Office 2007 setup files are in share drive that everyone has FULL acces, also added domain/computers FULL Access
2. Costumized *.MSP file is in Updates folder.
3. Advertisment is set to never expire.
4. In Package of Office 2007 the program is set to run only "Setup.exe" directly from the share.

But it wont work :(.... the advertisement is initiated and the setup.exe is appearing on "task manager" first 5-10 minutes it using aproximately 30-40 MB RAM.  Than it stucks in 17.992 RAM. and never ends, i left all day long today, and nothing happend, the "setup.exe" is still on "Task Manager"...

Dont have a clue what is going on :(... In Event logs, everything is normall, no errors or warning loged.

Regards,
Ridvan

P.S
when i deploy other application and when i import "Package from definition" (from MSI files) i never had these kind of problems, everything worked perfect !!!


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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/17/2008 3:16:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		Do you choose an unattendet Installation of Office 2007?
It could be, that there comes a dialogue while the Office2007 installs. But wehen you install it in silent mode, you can not see the dialogue and teh computer hang at this point all the time.

When you create the *.MSP, do you enter the ProductKey, accept the Licence and choose show-level to no?

Regards,
Vity

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/18/2008 9:58:50 AM   
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Deploying is simple as "setup.exe /adminfile office2007.msp"

We have the MSP sitting in the root of the office folder.  We push it down to the client cache and install it silently.  It then restarts the machine and all is well. 


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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/25/2008 7:56:47 AM   
ridvan

 

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Status: offline 		...hi again to all,

Deploying office 2007 through SCCM, is KILLING me :(

I did all the possibility, that was given to this post, and nonen of them works, it really gets me mad....

Regardin, to the answer of vity:

I dont think, that it requires any input from a user, because when i run this command manually :\\server name\share\Office2007\setup.exe /config \\server name\share\Office2007\Customizations\Office2007EntCustom.xml /adminfile \\server name\share\Office2007\Customizations\Office2007EntCustom.msp
Everything works perfect, and it installs within 20-25 mins, and restarts computer automatically, and everything works fine,

But when advertising the package from the SCCM, it WONT work, dont really have a clue what more should i try...

In meantime, thank you guys for all of your reply,

Regards,
Ridvan

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/25/2008 9:27:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		can you post a copy of your xml file?  Is the msp file the same for every install and OS?  If so just leave it in the updates folder and eliminate that portion of the command.

Here is a copy of a log file that my install script creates: It works the same when pushed via sms.

Log Start. WEB-Microsoft-Office Professional with Access-2007-Setup.vbs
RTRUSS initiated the WEB Microsoft Office Professional with Access 2007 Setup on FDLL0268 at 3/14/2008 3:28:33 PM.
C: FreeSpace in Mbytes: 60047.53515625 FreeSpace Test Ok.
The WEB Microsoft Office Professional with Access Setup began at 3/14/2008 3:28:33 PM.
sinstall: "\\fdlsms4\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\office2007\enterprise\setup.exe" /config "\\fdlsms4\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\office2007\enterprise\ProPlus.WW\config.xml" /adminfile "\\fdlsms4\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\office2007\enterprise\ProPlus.WW\ProPlus.msp" was initiated on 3/14/2008 3:28:33 PM.
sinstall: \\fdlsms4\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\office2007\enterprise\vista.MSP was initiated On 3/14/2008 3:38:06 PM.
sinstall: msiexec /i "\\fdlsms4\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\saveaspdf\ExPdfXps.msi" /qb!- REBOOT=REALLYSUPPRESS /lomew+ "C:\Program Files\InstallWrapper\Microsoft\Office Professional with Access 2007 Setup\O2k7pdfSetup.log" was initiated On 3/14/2008 3:38:14 PM.
The WEB Microsoft Office Professional with Access Setup finished at 3/14/2008 3:38:15 PM.
C: FreeSpace in Mbytes: 58324.4453125
The Office Professional with Access Setup completed at 3/14/2008 3:38:15 PM.

Here is a copy of the config.xml file as noted in the log file above:

<Configuration Product="ProPlus">
<!--<Display Level="basic" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" />-->
<MinOSRequirement VersionNT="501" WindowsBuild="2600" ServicePackLevel="2" />
<Logging Type="standard" Path="%programfiles%\Installwrapper\Microsoft\Office Enterprise 2007 Setup MSI Logs\" Template="Microsoft Office Professional Plus Setup(*).txt" />
<!--<PIDKEY Value="abcd1234efgh5678" />-->
<COMPANYNAME Value="Brunswick Corporation" />
<ProductName Value="Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 for Brunswick Corporation" />
<SOURCELIST Value="\\capsar\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\Office2007\enterprise;\\fdlsms4\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\Office2007\enterprise;\\jrzsar\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\Office2007\enterprise;\\miasar\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\Office2007\enterprise;\\pansar\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\Office2007\enterprise;\\sipsar\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\Office2007\enterprise;\\stcsar\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\Office2007\enterprise;\\stwsar\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\Office2007\enterprise;\\torsar\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\Office2007\enterprise;\\tulsar\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\Office2007\enterprise;\\whqsms1\SMSPkgShare\SMSPKG\BIC00110\Installs\Office2007\enterprise" />

<!-- the following section controls features and if they get installed or not -->
//this one is for Access
<!-- <OptionState Id="CalendarControl" State="absent" Children="force" /> -->
//scanning,ocr,indexing
<OptionState Id="DocumentImagingUtils" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="ExcelAddinFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="InternationalSupportFiles_JPN" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="MSOfficeDocumentImaging" State="local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="ProofingTools" State="local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="ONENOTEFiles" State="absent" Children="force" />
//Organization Chart Add-in for Microsoft Office programs
<OptionState Id="OrgChartFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
//this one is for open and new in start menu
<OptionState Id="OsaNonBoot" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="OUTLOOKFiles" State="absent" Children="force" />
//this one is for publisher
<OptionState Id="PubPrimary" State="absent" Children="force" />
// disables the research explorer bar
<OptionState Id="RefIEBarFiles" State="absent" Children="force" />
<!-- <OptionState Id="VisualStudio_PreviewServer_SPD" State="absent" Children="force" /> -->
//disAllows the use of Web Folders on Office-compatible Internet service providers
<OptionState Id="WebDriveFiles" State="absent" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="XDOCSFiles" State="absent" Children="force" />
<!--  <AddLanguage Id="de-de" /> -->
<!--  <AddLanguage Id="en-us" ShellTransform="yes"/> -->
<!--  <AddLanguage Id="es-es" /> -->
<!--  <AddLanguage Id="fr-fr" /> -->
<!--  <AddLanguage Id="ja-jp" /> -->
<!--  <AddLanguage Id="zh-cn" /> -->
<!--  <AddLanguage Id="zh-tw" /> -->
<!--  <AddLanguage Id="match" /> -->
<Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="NEVER" />
</Configuration>


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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/25/2008 10:55:53 AM   
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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/25/2008 11:23:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		If i run, this switch from "RUN" Command, \\server name\share\Office2007\setup.exe /config \\server name\share\Office2007\Customizations\Office2007EntCustom.xml /adminfile \\server name\share\Office2007\Customizations\Office2007EntCustom.msp
Everything works perfect, and it installs within 20-25 mins, and restarts computer automatically, and everything works fine,
Everything works fine and office 2007 is installed, also MSP config file is applied,

Also i have network setup account, and the problem is not in network account, because all other application can be deployed without any single problem...

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/25/2008 11:44:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		What does your "run" command look like in SCCM? This? \\server name\share\Office2007\setup.exe /config \\server name\share\Office2007\Customizations\Office2007EntCustom.xml /adminfile \\server name\share\Office2007\Customizations\Office2007EntCustom.msp

If so SCCM may be truncating the command.  Which in turn mean you would need to run some type of script (bat, cmd, vbs) to perform the install.

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/25/2008 11:51:50 AM   
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In sccm "RUN" command i tried almost everything :) , once i tried only "setup.exe" (in folder Updates is corresponding config *.msp files) 
also tried "setup.exe /adminfile Office2007EntCustom.MSP"
also tried"\server name\share\Office2007\setup.exe /config \\server name\share\Office2007\Customizations\Office2007EntCustom.xml /adminfile \\server name\share\Office2007\Customizations\Office2007EntCustom.msp "
 
None of these commands, did'nt work :(

Regards,
Ridvan

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/25/2008 9:32:12 PM   
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Put your setup info into a batch file and then put the batch file in the same location as the setup.exe.  Then in sccm use the batch file instead of the long setup strings you have been using.

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/26/2008 4:40:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		All strings, puted in a single batch file installo2k7.bat and that file putet in root of office 2007, and than that batch puted in SCCM "Run" command.
but nothing happened,

Regards,
Ridvan

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/26/2008 11:05:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		These are the logs on event log:
====================================================================
Event Type: Information
Event Source: SmsClient
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10024
Date:  3/26/2008
Time:  3:49:48 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: SCCM-VIRTUAL
Description:
Content download for the package "0100003D" - "1" has completed successfully.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
======================================================================
Event Type: Information
Event Source: SmsClient
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10005
Date:  3/26/2008
Time:  3:49:50 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: SCCM-VIRTUAL
Description:
Program started for advertisement "0102006C" ("0100003D" - "Office2007").
Command line: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\CCM\Cache\0100003D.1.System\setup.exe" /adminfile Office2007ENT.MSP
Working directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32\CCM\Cache\0100003D.1.System\
User context: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
====================================================================================

Which means, that Office 2007 content is successfully, downloaded and program started successfully, but it never ends, "Setup.exe" remains in task manager, and it never ends, i checked very very carefully the MSP configuration file, to make sure that it wont ask any question during the installation... so MSP config file, is OK !

Regards,
Ridvan

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/26/2008 4:43:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sound familiar.  I ended up having to modify the config.xml file in the proplus folder(or whatever version you are trying to install) to get past that spot also.

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/27/2008 4:42:41 AM   
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Thy syntax of ProPlusWW.xml is very long one, and dont know what to change on it,

Regards,
Ridvan

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/27/2008 5:02:57 AM   
ridvan

 

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Status: offline 		In meantime, its really weird that, Office is Microsoft product, and it has 100 things to be done, to be deployed with SCCM, and other application (third part), has only single MSI packages, and deployment its very easy!!!, and also i don’t know why Microsoft does not release any official manual, that provides step by step instruction to deploy office 2007, with SCCM (with sms it exists)... this is also one prove that MICROSOFT sells the products without even wonder what peoples dose with it.

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Ridvan

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RE: Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM - 3/27/2008 12:40:22 PM   
rtruss


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Status: offline 		Microsoft is reinventing the msi .applicaion install which is why Office 2007 is the way it is.  As far as the xml file you want to mod, ProPlusWW.xml is not the one to use.  You want to mod config.xml.  What you can try is this.

<Configuration Product="ProPlus">
<Display Level="basic" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" />

If your install works after that you need to double check your msp file for those same types of settings.

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