Sunday, February 17, 2008

Microsoft Office Resource Kits & Service Packs

Couldn't find much on the 2007 version, but then again i'd advice everyone to stick with 2003 SP3 for now.. Typical Microsoft, 3-4 years on and a couple of service packs later, their software starts to actually feel solid and bugfree..

The released BOOKS on 2007 are here:

Downloadable books for the 2007 Office Resource Kit

And the rest here:

OFFICE 2003

Resource Kit
Local Installation Source Tool
Service Pack 3
Service Pack 3 MULTILANGUAGE

OFFICE XP

Resource Kit
Service Pack 3
Service Pack 3 MULTILANGUAGE

OFFICE 2000

Resource Kit
Service Pack 3
Service Pack 3 for SR1 MULTILANGUAGE

Tested unattended installation of 2003 created using the /a switch (administrative setup) to create a local source - burning/making image of said source later on is optional. Language selection, S/N bypass, etc all worked flawlessly.

Used to automate Proofing Tools (2003) too without problems, though I couldn't figure out which CABs are not needed in order to erase them, after I select a couple of languages. The PTK2003 is 650MB+, and its stupid to include all these to an unattended install which only uses Greek, English and possibly Cyrilic language support. Should be able to bring it down to below 100MB, will post back when I figure it all out.

Handy tool, in all..

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