Microsoft KB Archive/301348

= How to install public updates to administrative installations of Office XP =

Article ID: 301348

Article Last Modified on 12/4/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office XP Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage
 * Microsoft Office XP Small Business Edition
 * Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q301348





For a Microsoft Office 2003 version of this article, see 829197.

IN THIS TASK
SUMMARY Download the Public Administrative Update Install the Public Administrative Update Update Your Workstations
 * How to Apply Multiple Updates to Workstations

REFERENCES



SUMMARY
This step-by-step article describes how to download and install public updates to administrative installations of Microsoft Office XP.

For information about how to install public updates on client computers, see the REFERENCES section of this article.

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Download the Public Administrative Update
To download a public update for an administrative installation of Office XP, follow these steps:  Point your Web browser to the appropriate Web address to download the update.

For Microsoft Office XP Public Updates, visit the following Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/appndx/appc00.htm

 Click the link to download the file that you want. Click Save this program to disk, and then click OK. Click Save. In Windows Explorer, double-click the file that you downloaded. Click Yes when you are prompted to extract the contents of the update to a new folder. Type C:\adminUpdate in the Please type the location where you want to place the extracted files box, and then click OK. Click Yes when you are prompted to create the folder.</li></ol>

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Install the Public Administrative Update
To install the administrative update, follow these steps.

Note You must run this command from a computer that already has the Windows Installer installed. <ol> Click Start, and then click Run. Type the following command in the Open box, and then click OK

msiexec /a \  /p C:\adminUpdate\  SHORTFILENAMES=1

where  is the path to your administrative installation point for Office XP (for example, C:\OfficeXP), and where MSI File is the MSI database package for the Office XP product (for example, ProPlus.msi), and

where  is the name of the public administrative installation update.

Note If  or the path to the MSP file contains a space character, the path must be surrounded by quotation marks (for example, &quot;C:\OfficeXP Admin&quot;).

Note You can add /qb+ to the preceding command line to avoid receiving the Office XP Administrative Installation dialog box and the End User License Agreement dialog box.

</li> Click Next in the Microsoft Office XP Administrative Installation dialog box.

Note Do not change your CD Key, installation location, or company name in the Microsoft Office XP Administrative Installation dialog box.</li> Click I accept the terms in the License Agreement, and then click Install.</li> If the update contains multiple MSP files, or if you want to apply multiple updates to your network administrative installation, repeat steps 1 through 3 for the remaining MSP files.</li></ol>

At this point, your administrative installation point is updated. Next, you must update the workstations that were originally installed from this administrative installation. To do this, see the Update Your Workstations section later in this article. Any new installations that you run from this administrative installation point will include the update.

Warning Any workstation that was originally installed from this administrative installation before you installed the update cannot use this administrative installation for actions like repairing Office or adding new features until you complete the steps in the Update Your Workstations section for this workstation.

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Update Your Workstations
To update workstations, do one of the following: <ul> Run Setup.exe from the updated administrative installation of Office to interactively update a workstation.</li> Use the following method to update workstations on which Office XP was already installed from your administrative installation point. These steps must be performed for each workstation. <ol> Click Start, and then click Run. Type the following command in the Open box, and then click OK:

msiexec /i \  REINSTALL=  REINSTALLMODE=vomus

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

where  is the MSI database package for the Office XP product (for example, ProPlus.msi), and

where  is the list of feature names (case sensitive) that need to be reinstalled for the update.

Note For more information about feature names, see the REFERENCES section later in this article.

To install all features, you can use REINSTALL=ALL.</li> Click OK to the message that Setup completed successfully.</li> Click Yes if you are prompted to restart the computer.</li></ol> </li></ul>

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How to Apply Multiple Updates to Workstations
As stated earlier, you can apply multiple updates to the administrative installation at one time and then update the workstations once for all these updates. You can follow the same steps in the Update Your Workstations section. You can combine all the feature names for the REINSTALL property, or just include all the features by using the following command line

msiexec /i  REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus

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

where  is the MSI database package for the Office XP product (for example, ProPlus.msi).

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