Microsoft KB Archive/313138

= How to synchronize an Office XP client with the administrative installation point =

Article ID: 313138

Article Last Modified on 12/4/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office XP Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Office XP Small Business Edition
 * Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition for Students and Teachers
 * Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Access 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q313138



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SUMMARY
 * How to Update Your Workstations

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SUMMARY
This step-by-step article describes how to synchronize an Office XP client computer with the current administrative installation point. You must perform this process after you update the administrative installation point.

WARNING: After you install an update to your administrative installation point, any workstation that was originally installed from this administrative installation point will not use this administrative installation for actions such as repairing Office or adding new features, until you complete the steps in the &quot;How to Update Your Workstations&quot; section of this article.

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How to Update Your Workstations
To update each client computer, use one of the following methods.

Method 1
To synchronize the client installation, so that it acknowledges the updated administrative installation point, follow these steps on the client computer:  Click Start and then click Run. In the Open box, type the following command

msiexec /i \[*.msi] reinstall=all reinstallmode=vomus



where  is the path to your administrative installation point for Office XP (for example, C:\OfficeXP)

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where [*.msi file] is the MSI database package for the Office XP product &quot;ProPlus.msi&quot;, &quot;Pro.msi&quot;, or &quot;Std.msi&quot; (type without quotation marks).

NOTE: For additional information about the command-line switches used with the Windows Installer tool, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

227091 Command-Line Switches for the Windows Installer Tool

Method 2
To interactively update a workstation, run Setup.exe from the updated administrative installation of Office. If you want to run Setup in Quiet mode, use one of the following command-line switches: /q or /qn.

For example, the command line would be:

Setup.exe /q /L*V C:\update.txt

For additional information about the command-line switches that are used with Office XP Setup, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

283686 OFFXP: Setup Command-Line Switches for Office XP

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