Microsoft Office 2007 deployment

You can deploy Microsoft Office 2007 with RemoteExec. To do this you need the Enterprise version of the Office 2007 CD.

Procedure to follow:

  1. Check that the Service pack 2 (or more) and Windows Installer 3.1 (or more) are installed on all Windows XP computers and that the Service pack 1 (or more) is installed on all Windows 2003 servers. (See Office 2007 requirements for more information).

  2.  Copy the whole content of the Office 2007 Enterprise CD on a share located on a server in order to create an installation point.
    (Example: \\ServerName\Share\Office2007)

  3. Execute from the root of the installation point the following command line to start the Office Customization Tool: setup /Admin
    Example: \\ServerName\Share\Office2007\Setup.exe /Admin

  4. Select Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 and click OK.

  5. In Licensing and user interface enter your volume license key(1), check I accept the terms in the license Agreement, select none as Display Level(1), unselect Completion notice, select Suppress modal and select No Cancel.

  6. In Modify Setup properties add the property SETUP_REBOOT and set Never as value. The reboot will be managed by RemoteExec.

  7. Customize the Office installation as you need.

  8. Save the installation customization in the Update folder (.msp file)  of the Office 2007 installation point.

  9. Open RemoteExec and in the Configuration tree go to Remote Jobs/New Remote Job/File execution.

  10. Select the file setup.exe located at the root of the Office 2007 installation point as file to execute (See the File execution Actions type).
    Example: \\ServerName\Share\Office2007\Setup.exe

  11. Select the System context.

  12. If a reboot is needed and you want to do it immediately after the installation check the Reboot option box. Alternatively you can reboot your Target computers later. You can also schedule this reboot overnight.

  13. Go to the Target Computers section and select the computers on which you want to deploy the Office 2007.

  14. Click Launch to start the deployment of the deployment of Office 2007 on all these computers.

  15. You can follow the progression of the deployment in the Progress Window.

(1) If you don't provide a valid volume license key the setup will fail. As workaround during your tests you can specify Basic as Display Level. Doing so the installation will succeed even without a license key.