Office 2003, Compressed CD Image, MST files, no Local Install. Sou

Background:

My organization is going to deploy Office 2003 as a replacement for Office
97. As a prelude to this roll-out, the intention is to provide some teams
within our different departments with a copy of the customized Office
distribution on a CD so that they can check compatibility with our internal
applications.

This CD contains a copy of the compressed Office CD together with a folder
(called \MST) containing a transform file created using the Custom
Installation Wizard.

To start the process I have created a simple batch file containing the line:

call setuppro.exe TRANSFORMS=\MST\setup200904a.MST /qb-

The problem:

I have one issue, in that the Local Installation Source is not created. What
I need to know is whether this is an intrinsic feature of using MST files,
even with a compressed CD image, or if I have done something wrong!

Setuppro.ini is the default version of the file with CDCACHE set to auto.
There's also plenty of space on the hard drive I'm testing on (10GB+).

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers!

Adrian

No, the transform can be used no problem. Grab the latest setup if you
haven't already from:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/...ewSetupEXE.htm

You can rename it to setuppro.exe

In yiur INI file for this test run Use:
CDCACHE=2

or if using the new setup.exe from above:
ENFORCECACHE=1

Basically with this specified Office 2003 will not install unless it sees it
has enough disk space to cache its files.

Also turn up more logging (see /l switch below). You can then look at the
log files to see if your INI was parsed.

Then for the test, run the install with full paths specified to the files
like so:

fullpath\setuppro.exe /lpiwaeo+ "MSOffice2003(*).txt" /settings
Fullpath\MySetup.INI TRANSFORMS=fullpath\MyTransform.MST /qb-

Now after the install, look at the log files in the temp directory.


"Adrian Moss" Adrian wrote in message
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Background:

My organization is going to deploy Office 2003 as a replacement for Office
97. As a prelude to this roll-out, the intention is to provide some teams
within our different departments with a copy of the customized Office
distribution on a CD so that they can check compatibility with our
internal
applications.

This CD contains a copy of the compressed Office CD together with a folder
(called \MST) containing a transform file created using the Custom
Installation Wizard.

To start the process I have created a simple batch file containing the
line:

call setuppro.exe TRANSFORMS=\MST\setup200904a.MST /qb-

The problem:

I have one issue, in that the Local Installation Source is not created.
What
I need to know is whether this is an intrinsic feature of using MST files,
even with a compressed CD image, or if I have done something wrong!

Setuppro.ini is the default version of the file with CDCACHE set to auto.
There's also plenty of space on the hard drive I'm testing on (10GB+).

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers!

Adrian

Hi GMan

Many thanks for that info - it's given me a good place to start.

It looks like the setup doesn't like creating the Local Installation Source
unless I put in the full path for everything. I've copied a part of the log
I've got below.

I've got a few days off work now, which should give me a bit of time to
ponder :¬)

Once again, many thanks for your help.

Adrian


*************************************
Found NTFS drive.
Local Cache Drive: C:\.
Found enough space on drive "C:\" to cache all feature cabinets.
(CDCACHE=AUTO) - There is enough space to cache some or all of the image.
Drive for this download is C:\
Adding temporary sources
Added temporary source: temp-setup200904a.MST (\MST\)
Failed to download file: setup200904a.MST.
Error 0x8007000f
Failed to download file.
Retrying error for resource: setup200904a.MST
Download retry 0 failed: 0x8007000f
Download retry 1 failed: 0x8007000f
Download retry 2 failed: 0x8007000f
Error 0x8007000f
failed to wait for file
Cleaning up temporary sources
Deleted temporary source: temp-setup200904a.MST (\MST\)
Couldn't perform local caching.
***************************************
"GMan Slater" wrote:

No, the transform can be used no problem. Grab the latest setup if you
haven't already from:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/...ewSetupEXE.htm

You can rename it to setuppro.exe

In yiur INI file for this test run Use:
CDCACHE=2

or if using the new setup.exe from above:
ENFORCECACHE=1

Basically with this specified Office 2003 will not install unless it sees it
has enough disk space to cache its files.

Also turn up more logging (see /l switch below). You can then look at the
log files to see if your INI was parsed.

Then for the test, run the install with full paths specified to the files
like so:

fullpath\setuppro.exe /lpiwaeo+ "MSOffice2003(*).txt" /settings
Fullpath\MySetup.INI TRANSFORMS=fullpath\MyTransform.MST /qb-

Now after the install, look at the log files in the temp directory.