Wrong company name in Office 2003 administrative install point

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This was on a clean machine, in which it was a machine that was just imaged, and had never had Office installed before. The company I work for was bought out by another, and I wanted to start using the new companies select keys, and I also wanted the new company name in the company box. The name that is showing up is the name of the old company, although it is a little differnet than what I had enetered on the old Admin install point. The old name I had was Per-Se Technologies. In the new install it is showing up Perse Inc. I have never used that name before and I just cannot understand where it is coming from. I will try the second solution, as I would like to have all the updates wrapped up into the install. Also, on the second solution, ater reading through the steps, where is the step to enter the company name? At the install point? Then if it is at the install point, wouldn't statement NOFEATURESTATEMIGRATION keep the company name and username from showing up?

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matrixnz, I appreciate the info. So far it is working great, but I do have a minor problem. The hot fixes are not automatically running, even with the changes to the msoffice.ini and the ohotfix.ini. At the bottom command of the msoffice.ini, I have entered my \\server\share name to point to the ohotfix.exe, and I have also copied the \\server\share string and placed in my run command to make sure it is correct, and it is. The updates do run if I manually start ohotfix.exe. I am not sure what is going on with this. I also made the other change in ohotfix.ini to not show the progress bar, but it does show after I kick off ohotfix.exe. I have been trying to fix this yesterday and today, but I am stumped. Any ideas would be appreciated.

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OK, I have done that. I didn't realize the number of the chained install was that important. I changed it to 1 and now works like a champ. I do have one more question to ask you. I now have this for Office pro, and I know I can do this for Standard as well. The question I have, is can I change the name from msoffice.exe to officepro.exe, mycustom.mst to officepro.mst, msoffice.ini to officepro.ini, and msoffice.xml to officepro.xml? I would also change the entry in officepro.ini for the mst to point to officepro.mst. The reason for this is I would like for office standard to coincide in the same MSOffice_2003 directory for server space reasons. Then for standard I would name the files officestd respectively. Would that work?

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OK, I answered my own question. I can rename those files, and they work fine as long as changes are made to the ini files to reflect the changed file names. I am in the process of creating the same for office standard. Thanks for the answer, it has been a great help.