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Creation of an Office XP SP3 CD-ROM

This tutorial allows you to easily create a CD-ROM of the Office XP suite that directly integrates the latest service pack 3 from Microsoft. This will allow your version to be up to date without having to patch the software at the completion of the install either with patches or from the Microsoft Office Update site. Once this has been installed from the CD, your office suite will be immediately operational and up to date. All commercial versions of Office are supported.

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Creation of an Office XP SP3 CD-ROM

April 07th, 2004 - 06:00 pm ET by Duke-GNT
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Creating an Office XP installation CD with Service Pack 3 integrated



1. Introduction

This tutorial looks at the integration of the Microsoft Office XP updates so as to create a version that doesn’t need to be updated at the completion of the installation either from patches or from the  OfficeUpdate  site of Microsoft.

At the end of this procedure, the created CD will contain the updated Office XP installation files. This method is not overly difficult and can also be used to configure other programs while still not changing the systems minimum requirements indicated on the original CD.

All commercial versions of Office XP are supported:

Microsoft Office XP Professional,

  • Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage®,
  • Microsoft Office XP Standard,
  • Microsoft Office XP Standard (Student License),
  • Microsoft Office XP Small Business Edition,
  • Microsoft Access 2002,
  • Microsoft Excel 2002,
  • Microsoft FrontPage® 2002,
  • Microsoft Outlook® 2002,
  • Microsoft PowerPoint® 2002,
  • Microsoft Word 2002,
  • Microsoft Publisher 2002,
  • Microsoft SharePoint™ Team Services
  • Microsoft Office XP Web Components.


Update: April 2004

This tutorial replaces the previous tutorial that showed how to integrate the SP1, SP2 and other patches. SP3 for office is cumulative and takes into account all previous updates.



Note: This example has been made with Microsoft Office XP Professional with Frontpage.

2. Preparation

You will need:

  • The Microsoft Office XP CD
  • The SP3 deployment should pose no problems, even if the CD already contains other patches.
  • The Office XP Service Pack 3 files.
  • Burning Software.

I recommend that you prepare a special folder to use for this procedure. In this example we will use d:\offxpupd\.

A: Copy the files from the CD to D:\offxpupd\office

We will copy all of the files from the Office XP CD in E: by using the Office Administrative install (used for personalization’s and office deployments):

From a command line, execute e:\install.exe /a:


 

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Or:

  • e: is the CD-ROM drive that contains the Office CD.
  • Install.exe: Office Administrative install (some versions may have a different name, so to be sure use the file that is named in your autorun.inf file that can be found in the root of your Office CD),
  • /a: Command to run the installation in administrative mode.


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