Office 2003 installation for remote users

I'm in a situation where I need to install Office 2003 on fifty
laptops. These laptops connect to the domain via 56k dial-up
connection so I can't use AD to deploy the software. We don't have
SMS setup so I can't use that either. Does anybody have any
suggestions for how this can be done?

The only thought I had was to send each of them a CD with an autorun
installation script. However, I don't want to allow the users to put
this CD in any computer and install the program. (We use volume
licensing so it would be possible for them to do that). Is it
possible to put on the CD an expiry date on for the installation?
This way, if the install wasn't done within two weeks of when the CD
was created the installation files would expire.

Any thoughts?

RESOLUTION:
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Remote Installation Services
Remote Installation Services (RIS), which ships with Windows 2000 or later,
installs an administrator-configured image of the Windows client remotely
on users' computers. You can include Office 2003 in the RIS image. After
using RIS to install Windows on a test computer, you customize and install
Office 2003 on the same test computer. Then you run the Remote Installation
Preparation Wizard (RIPrep.exe) to create an image of the hard disk on the
RIS server. When clients connect to the RIS server remotely, they install
both the Windows client and Office 2003 with your configuration settings.

RIS allows you to set up new computers and new users without on-site
technical support and to recover more quickly from computer failures.
Unlike SysPrep, however, RIS requires relies heavily on network resources,
including network capacity and the Active Directory® directory service.

For a detailed outline of the steps necessary to install, configure, and
use Remote Installation Services (RIS), see the Step-by-Step Guide to
Remote OS Installation on the Microsoft Windows 2000 Web site.

To find out how to create an installation image by using the Remote
Installation Preparation Wizard, search for Creating an installation image
in the Windows 2000 Server Help page on the Microsoft Windows 2000 Web site.


LINKS:
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http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/...ch5/DepC05.htm

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