Office 2000/XP/2003 deployment

Office 2000/XP/2003 is provided as a Windows Installer package and all Windows Installer packages can be easily deployed with RemoteExec. In order to do this you need to:

1. For Office XP/2003 deploy Windows Installer 2 or more on all Windows 2000/NT 4 computers (if not already deployed). For Office 2000 deploy Windows Installer on all Windows NT 4 computers.

2. Create the network image for MS Office on a share with the following command line: Install /a (to execute on the MS Office CD-ROM)

3. Select msi installation as action (with the action tab menu)

4. Enter the path to the msi file located in the network image:
   \\Server\Share\proplus.msi for Office XP with FrontPage
   \\Server\Share\install.msi for Office 2000.
   \\Server\Share\pro11.msi for Office 2003 professional

5. Choose Install as operation

6. (Optional) If you want to custom the installation you can check Use transform and enter the path to a transform file (.mst) created with the Office 2000/XP/2003 customization wizard.
   If you are interested in installing all features you can specify ADDLOCAL=ALL as arguments instead of using a transform file.

7. Go to the computers tab and select the computers on which you want to install MS Office.

8. Click Execute to launch the deployment

9. Enter your password (if asked). The deployment will then start and you will be able to follow the progression in the Progress Window.