OEM Office 2002

[Andre Southgate]

Hi There!

Is there any way to automate the installation of Office 2002
OEM? as in an unattended Silent Installation?

 

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Yes. You can run:

...\setup.exe /qb NOUSERNAME=1 PIDKEY=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY

This is using setup.exe from the CD-ROM or from a copy of the CD-ROM.

PIDKEY is the product key *without* hyphens. You can omit the key, in
which case Office will ask for it when run the first time. Using the
correct product key is important because Office XP requires
activation.

You probably want to install the Office hotfixes silently, too. See
<http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/unattended/unattended/install/scripts/officexp.bat?view=auto>
for the script I use. For general principles of Office installation,
see <http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html#office2k>
(written for Office 2000, but XP is similar).

Note that this is not how Microsoft would tell you to do it. For
their perspective, see <http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/>. But
note that you cannot use the OEM version of Office to create an
administrative installation point; you would need to purchase volume
licenses.

- Pat
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/