Office Upgrade via GPO and Transforms

Is there a way that one could setup Office to run through an Upgrade during a
GPO installation and the use of Transforms instead of the software being
completely removed and reinstalled with all the new patches? I know there are
some flags that can be thrown in via CLI but I would like to have the updates
done via GPO so its fully automated.

Dunno if these will answer your question, but as I was researching
another problem I found two MS URLs that might answer your questions.

Both are available via this one URL

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...513681033.aspx

and if you want to know about rolling in patches to an admin install point:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...525741033.aspx

Jim

Skitzsofrenick wrote:
Is there a way that one could setup Office to run through an Upgrade during a
GPO installation and the use of Transforms instead of the software being
completely removed and reinstalled with all the new patches? I know there are
some flags that can be thrown in via CLI but I would like to have the updates
done via GPO so its fully automated.

Yeah, the first one I know about. I have set up an admin install point with
features that we would want, including the username for outlook, etc. The
second link led me to believe that the only way to make sure only the updates
are brought into the current installation on the client machines instead of a
full reinstall with all of the patches is to run it from cmd line, such as in
a login script with the flag reinstall to only affect the updated
applications. Kinda stinks that you cannot do this in a transform, because
it would be much easier to manage.

Aaron

"Jim" wrote:

Dunno if these will answer your question, but as I was researching
another problem I found two MS URLs that might answer your questions.

Both are available via this one URL

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...513681033.aspx

and if you want to know about rolling in patches to an admin install point:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...525741033.aspx

Jim

Skitzsofrenick wrote:
Is there a way that one could setup Office to run through an Upgrade during a
GPO installation and the use of Transforms instead of the software being
completely removed and reinstalled with all the new patches? I know there are
some flags that can be thrown in via CLI but I would like to have the updates
done via GPO so its fully automated.