{"id":8,"date":"2007-03-14T23:47:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T22:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/?p=8"},"modified":"2007-03-14T23:48:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T22:48:45","slug":"office-2007-unattended-setup-fine-tuning-its-very-easy-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Office 2007, Unattended Setup &#038; Fine-tuning, its very easy &#038; simple!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(updated to reflect final RTM version)<\/p>\n<p>Unattending or silently installing MS Office System, has now become easier than ever.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: brown\">1. Ensure you have an actual enterprise\/corporate disc &amp; product-key.<br \/>\n2. Notably, o2k7 uses setup patches (*.MSP) rather than transforms which previous versions used (*.MST). The below instructions will give you an MSP file, which is not accepted by non-corporate versions of o2k7. If you ignored point1 above, then you will end up wasting 15 minutes of your life which I&#8217;m not responsible for.<br \/>\n3. Now at the command prompt, type: <strong>setup.exe \/admin<\/strong><br \/>\n4. Choose the product for which you want to make a customization-patch.<br \/>\n5. Then go through all steps in the customization wizard (to install the reqd apps &amp; remove junk &amp; change default settings).<br \/>\n6. Be sure to have &#8220;completion notice&#8221; turned on &amp; &#8220;suppress modals&#8221; turned off (this is to get to see errors, if any exist). Once you&#8217;re done with testing, go thru the customization again to modify the MSP to disable completion notice &amp; enable suppress modals.<br \/>\n7. Save the resulting patch file in the same folder as o2k7 setup files.<br \/>\n8. Now just execute this command (thru any method) for silent install: <strong>setup.exe \/adminfile CUSTOM.MSP <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: brown\">Or if you have the Office 2007 Enterprise VLK, you could even drop the CUSTOM.MSP file in the &#8220;Updates&#8221; folder &amp; setup will pick it up automatically (without any switches being used).?  For this, ensure you have WindowsInstaller 3.1 already installed.<!--colorc--><!--\/colorc--><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(updated to reflect final RTM version) Unattending or silently installing MS Office System, has now become easier than ever. 1. Ensure you have an actual enterprise\/corporate disc &amp; product-key. 2. Notably, o2k7 uses setup patches (*.MSP) rather than transforms which previous versions used (*.MST). The below instructions will give you an MSP file, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.servernet.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}