Microsoft KB Archive/270920

= Description of the public properties of the Office 2000 Setup command line =

Article ID: 270920

Article Last Modified on 7/16/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q270920



SUMMARY
The Office Setup program accepts a number of optional command-line properties that you can use to control how the Setup program operates. This article lists the properties and describes the functionality of each property.

For more information about these properties and their possible settings, see the &quot;References&quot; section of this article.

For a list of command-line switches, please see the following Knowledge Base article:

202946 OFF2000: Setup Command-Line Switches for Office 2000

WARNING: The properties in this article have not all been tested with Office 2000 and may not work with Office 2000. Also, some properties may be specific to a particular operating system. For example, a property may work for Microsoft Windows 2000 but not for Microsoft Windows 98.



MORE INFORMATION
Important Notes:
 * Some of the following properties are Windows Installer properties for all Windows Installer products and may not work with Office 2000.
 * Usually, if you specify the same Setup options but use different values in the Setup command line, settings file, or transform, Setup uses the following rules to determine which settings to use:


 * If you set an option in the Office Custom Installation Wizard that corresponds to a Setup property, the wizard sets the corresponding property automatically in the MST file.
 * If you modify a Setup property in the Modify Setup Properties pane of the Custom Installation Wizard, this setting overrides any corresponding options that you set in previous panes of the wizard. Your modified Setup property is written to the MST file.
 * If you set options, including Setup properties, in the settings file that conflict with options in the transform, the values in the settings file take precedence.
 * If you set options on the command line, those settings take precedence over any conflicting values in either the settings file or the transform.

Property Name            Description

TARGETDIR                Used as the location to copy the Installer installation package during an administrative installation.

ALLUSERS                 Determines where configuration information will be stored.

ARPCOMMENTS              Provides Comments for the Add/Remove Control Panel.

ARPCONTACT               Provides Contact for the Add/Remove Control Panel.

ARPNOREPAIR              Disables the Repair button in the Programs Wizard.

ARPPRODUCTICON           Specifies the primary icon for the installation package. ARPREADME                Provides ReadMe for the Add/Remove Control Panel.

ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT       Prevents display of application in Add/Remove programs list.

ARPURLINFOABOUT          URL for application's home page.

ARPURLUPDATEINFO         URL for application update information.

ARPNOMODIFY              Disables functionality that would modify the product from the Add/Remove Control Panel. ARPNOREMOVE              Disables functionality that would remove the product from the Add/Remove Control Panel.

DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS     Set to disable the generation of certain shortcuts supporting installation-on-demand.

DISABLEMEDIA             Prevents the installer from registering media sources, such as a CD-ROMs, as valid sources for the product.

DISABLEROLLBACK          Disables rollback for the current configuration. INSTALLLEVEL             Initial &quot;level&quot; at which features will be                          installed. PROMPTROLLBACKCOST       Action if there is insufficient disk space for the installation.

REBOOTPROMPT             Suppresses the display of prompts for reboots to the user. Any reboots that are needed happen automatically.

SHORTFILENAMES           Causes short file names to be used. TRANSFORMS               List of transforms to be applied to the database. TRANSFORMSSECURE         Setting the TRANSFORMSECURE property to 1 informs the installer that transforms are to                          be cached locally on the user's computer in a                          location where the user does not have write access.

LIMITUI                  UI level capped as Basic. If LIMITUI is set, the ARPNOMODIFY property should be set as                         well.

ADDLOCAL                 List of features to be installed locally. The list of features comes from FileList.xls of the ORK. ADVERTISE                List of features to be advertised. The list of                         features comes from FileList.xls of the ORK. ADDDEFAULT               List of features to be installed in their default configuration. The list of features comes from FileList.xls of the ORK.

ADDSOURCE                List of features to be run from source. The list of features comes from FileList.xls of the ORK.

REMOVE                   List of features to be removed. The list of                         features comes from FileList.xls of the ORK.

REINSTALL                List of features to be reinstalled. REINSTALLMODE            A string containing letters that specify the type of reinstall to perform.

COMPADDLOCAL             List of component IDs to be installed locally. COMPADDSOURCE            List of component IDs to run from source media.

FILEADDDEFAULT           Property List of file keys of files that are to                          be installed in their default configuration.

FILEADDLOCAL             List of file keys of the files to be run locally. FILEADDSOURCE            List of file keys to be run from the source media. NOUSERNAME               Suppresses the automatic setting of the USERNAME property.

NOCOMPANYNAME            Suppresses the automatic setting of the USERNAME property.

ARPHELPLINK              Internet address, or URL, for technical support.

ARPHELPTELEPHONE         Technical support phone numbers.

COMPANYNAME              Organization of user performing the installation.

PIDKEY                   Part of the Product ID entered by user.

USERNAME                 User performing the installation.

DONOTMIGRATEUSERSETTING  Directs Setup to not copy the user's                           application settings when upgrading from an                           earlier version.

INSTALLIME               Installs the Input Method Editor (IME). If this property is set to False, the IME is not installed during Office installation. If the property is not set, the IME is installed. This property only applies to versions of Office that include the IME.

INSTALLLANGUAGE          Language used by Setup to configure language-dependent user settings.

INSTALLLOCATION          Installation location. Default for Office 2000 is /Microsoft Office in the user's Program Files folder.

NOPROFILESETTINGS        Setup does not copy the settings from the OPS file in the transform to the user's computer.

OPCREMOVAL               Disables the action by Setup of removing earlier versions of Office. If the setting is                          OFF, earlier versions of Office will not be                          removed.

SKIPREMOVEPROGRAMSDIALOG Hides the Remove Previous Versions panel of                          Office Setup.

SOURCELIST               Specifies a list of network server shares for the Windows Installer to search if the primary server is unavailable. This list is equivalent to the list in the Identify Additional Servers panel of the Custom Installation Wizard. Separate multiple server shares with semi-colons.

CUSTOMINSTALLDESCRIPTION Descriptive text displayed by Setup for the Custom installation option.

CUSTOMINSTALLHEADER      Text displayed above the Custom installation option button in Setup.

CUSTOMINSTALLTEXT        Text used for the Custom installation option button in Setup.

TYPICALINSTALLDESCRIPTION Descriptive text displayed by Setup for the Typical installation option.

TYPICALINSTALLHEADER     Text displayed above the Typical installation option button in Setup when you are installing Office.

TYPICALINSTALLTEXT       Text used for the Typical installation option button in Setup when you are installing Office. TYPICALUPGRADEHEADER     Text displayed above the Typical installation option button in Setup.

TYPICALUPGRADETEXT       Text used for the Typical installation option button in Setup when running in maintenance mode.

OUTLOOKASDEFAULTAPP      Registers Outlook as the default manager of                          various types of information.

NOIE                     Directs Internet Explorer 5 Setup to not upgrade to Internet Explorer 5 during Office Setup. This is the same action that Setup performs if the user chooses not to install Internet Explorer 5 during Office Setup.

IEMODE                   Directs the Internet Explorer 5 Setup to use the specified upgrade mode. Use the Internet Explorer 5 Administrator Kit to customize which Internet Explorer 5 components are installed in                          each mode.

IEXVALUE                 By default, when Setup installs Internet Explorer 5 on the user's computer, it registers Internet Explorer 5 as the default browser and installs icons for Internet Explorer 5 on the user's computer.

IESETUPLOCATION          Contains the file path of Internet Explorer 5 Setup.

SKIPDIALOG               Hides the Internet Explorer 5 installation panel of Office Setup.

ALTERNATEMSOFFICEDIR     Specifies an alternate installation location to                           be used if the folder specified by the INSTALLLOCATION property contains an Access 97 runtime application. The default value is                          Office2K.

REBOOT                   Specifies whether the computer is to be rebooted during or at the end of intallation. Three options are available:

Force: Always prompt for a reboot at the end of                          the installation.

Suppress: Suppress prompts for a reboot at the end of the installation.

ReallySuppress: Suppress all prompts for reboots during the installation initiated by ForceReboot and all prompts at end of the installation.



Setupref.xls and Filelist.xls
You can also download the Offinfo.exe file from the ORK tools site at the following Web address:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2000/appndx/toolbox.htm

When you run Offinfo.exe on your computer, Setupref.xls and Filelist.xls are extracted. This is a Microsoft Excel workbook with a complete list of Setup command-line switches and properties.

Windows Installer 1.1 SDK Help
Windows Installer 1.1 SDK help can be downloaded from the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e96f8abc-62c3-4cc3-93ad-bfc98e3ae4a3

When you install the Windows Installer 1.1 SDK, the Windows Installer 1.1 Help file, Msi.chm, is also installed on your computer.

Readme.doc for the ORK
The Readme.doc file for the Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit can be downloaded from the following ORK Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2000/appndx/toolbox.htm#readme

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