Create silent installation for Office 2007

If you will install Office in computer that are in domain, this can be very easy (and completly silent).

Open Group Policy and navigate to Computer Configuration\Software Settings and add a new installation package!
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Group-Policy-Deploy-Applications.html

So when user logon to theri computer, Office 2007 will be installed automaticly. Only the logon period will takes longer :)

Adio!

take advantage of the msiexec tool. as long as the installation software itself is accessible to all the computers (i.e. on shared network) you can use it to create a script that will install office unattended.

msiexec /i "\\server\software\office\Office 2003 Professional\PRO11.MSI" \qb-!

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/msiexec.mspx?mfr=true

To do the remote install method, use in combination with psexec (which i posted for you on your other question)

For Office 2007 i dont have a Msi file

hmm ok.. take a look at this link. It may be what you need to do

http://forum.landesk.com/showthread.php?t=9341

From JanC:
"For Professional Plus, you need to follow these steps:
1. Copy the install source files to your application server.
2. Run setup.exe /admin to configure product options, enter the serial number, etc.
3. Save the resulting .msp file into the Updates folder in the Office 2007 directory on your application server.
4. Create your deployment script. You could do this via batch deployment or using Manage Scripts. All your script really needs to have is the full path to setup.exe. The .msp file created is processed automatically."

Read through the forum.. there are detailed instructions on how to do it.

ThinkPaper
How can i user a file with psexec.So that the software can be installed on all the machines in the file.

I get this now

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 msiexec.exe exited on in-bkp-srv01 with error code 1620.
What does this error code mean

just simply edit the xml under ??.WW (Office2007\Pro.WW), sample as below:
<Configuration Product="Pro">
<Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" />
<PIDKEY Value="BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789B" />
<USERNAME Value="0wner" />
<COMPANYNAME Value="0wn Inc." />      
<OptionState Id="ACCESSFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //access
<OptionState Id="OUTLOOKFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //outlook
<OptionState Id="PubPrimary" State="absent" Children="force" /> //publisher
<OptionState Id="AceRepl" State="absent" Children="force" /> //access db Engine replication
<OptionState Id="CAGFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //Clip Organizer
<OptionState Id="MSSOAP3" State="absent" Children="force" /> //SOAP toolkit
<OptionState Id="OsaNonBoot" State="Local" Children="force" /> //new,open office docu lnks
<OptionState Id="ProofingTools_1036" State="absent" Children="force" /> //french
<OptionState Id="ProofingTools_3082" State="absent" Children="force" /> //spanish
<OptionState Id="WISPFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //handwriting
<OptionState Id="DocServicesFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //docu update util
<OptionState Id="HTMLSourceEditing" State="absent" Children="force" /> //script editor
<OptionState Id="DocumentImagingUtils" State="absent" Children="force" /> //scanning,ocr,indexing
<OptionState Id="OISFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //picture manager
<OptionState Id="OSESupp" State="absent" Children="force" /> //sharepoint support
<OptionState Id="QueryFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //msQuery
<OptionState Id="VisioPreviewerFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //visio viewer
<OptionState Id="XDOCSFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //infopath<!-- These are additionals from Enterprise RTM
<OptionState Id="GrooveFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //groove
<OptionState Id="OneNoteFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //onenote
<OptionState Id="RefIEBarFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //research explorer bar
<OptionState Id="WebDriveFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //hosted webs
<OptionState Id="VBAFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //VB for applications
<OptionState Id="OfficeDigitalSFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //vba certificates-->
</Configuration>