I have been trying for several weeks now to have BDD deploy Office 2003 with no luck at all. I've tried ORK, I've tried searching for some uber silent install command line jabber and yet nothing seems to work and I really don't want to setup an SMS server for this if BDD can do it.

So, my question is, can anyone help me push this out? I'm sure it's possible so if anyone here has had success with deploying Office 2003 via BDD 2007, please respond! :)

Cheers!

For Office 2003 you definitly need the ORK. You use that to creat an MST file (Microsoft Transform). One you have the file you need to drop it into a command line like this:

Setuppro.exe /wait TRANSFORMS=M:\Applications\Office2003.MST /qb-

That will use the Pro version of the installer and apply a custom transform file called office2003.

Hope this helps

Daniel

Thanks for your help daniel,

I have this in the 'command line' section of BDD when adding an application:

setuppro.exe /wait TRANSFORMS="D:\Distribution\Applications\Microsoft Office 2003\Office2003.MST" /qb-

 Should this work?

To test it out just try running it from the commnd line. If it works you're good to go.

I also noticed that you have an absolute path, meanig it's a "d:\distribution..." make sure that the path reflects the letter that is mapped by Windows PE to the distrobution share. I believe that it is M:\ be default.

Ok, I'm getting a bit further now :) Thanks

I get a message "Please go to the Control Panel to install and configure system components" when running the command.

 Any suggestions?

So this should be at the command line:

M:\Distribution\Applications\Microsoft Office - SP3\setup.exe /wait TRANSFORMS="M:\Distribution\Applications\Microsoft Office - SP3\Office2003.MST" /qb-

 *EDIT*

It worked a treat from the command line, thanks so much Yakko for the help :) I will see if it works from WDS tomorrow and report back \o/

Now I get an error "WARNING - unable to set working directory (-2147024894).

I've tried even to tell ORK to install office in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\ and it gave me the above error.

Any suggestions?

 Also, is there a way to re-run the post OS installation routines? I'm waisting a lot of time going through the WHOLE bit to test a small change.

This command worked a treat for me so I thought I would share it to everyone else.

Quiet install command: msiexec /qn /I PRO11.MSI TRANSFORMS="Distribution\Applications\MSOffice03\Office2003.MST" /qb-