Office2000 on W2K

[Yvonne]

We have Office 2000 installed as an administrative
installation point on a W2K server with all of the sp2
files installed. I have not been able to install from this
point to the terminal server using the mst from the
resource kit. I am able to install from the local cd drive
using data1.msi with the transform. How can I upgrade to
sp2? You cannot do the sp2 msp files using the transform.
You can also not use setup. We can only get it to work
with data1.msi and data2.msi. I am really on a deadline
and need help!

 

[Guest]

Since I don't know what error messages you're having it's kind of hard to tell you what went wrong with your AIP install. I've done a bunch of these and have an Office 2000 Pro SP3 integrated install on my network. If you'd like immediate, personal assistance you can contact me via my website

Since you did the CD install, did you try running the updates from office.microsoft.com "check for updates"? Make sure you're in install mode when doing this

Patrick Rous
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Serve
http://www.workthin.co

----- Yvonne wrote: ----

We have Office 2000 installed as an administrative
installation point on a W2K server with all of the sp2
files installed. I have not been able to install from this
point to the terminal server using the mst from the
resource kit. I am able to install from the local cd drive
using data1.msi with the transform. How can I upgrade to
sp2? You cannot do the sp2 msp files using the transform.
You can also not use setup. We can only get it to work
with data1.msi and data2.msi. I am really on a deadline
and need help

 

[Yvonne]

I have read some discussions here saying that doing the
updates from the Office Update causes errors because some
of the functions do not run properly in Termainal
Services, but since my server is not in production yet I
will try this. This Office install is taking way too long.

-----Original Message-----
Since I don't know what error messages you're having it's

kind of hard to tell you what went wrong with your AIP
install. I've done a bunch of these and have an Office
2000 Pro SP3 integrated install on my network. If you'd
like immediate, personal assistance you can contact me via
my website.

Since you did the CD install, did you try running the

updates from office.microsoft.com "check for updates"?
Make sure you're in install mode when doing this.

 

[Yvonne]

Voila!
I discovered that the install finally runs from another
server with an AIP with the transform file by adding the
DISABLEROLLBACK=1 to the command.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Yvonne,

Great job on figuring this out! What was the entire command that you
entered to get this to work? What documentation did you use to figure it
out? It would be of great benefit to a lot of people. A lot of people ask
similar questions.

Thank you,

Cary

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Yvonne,

I have just completed two installations of Office 2000 / SP3 from an AIP to
two Terminal Servers ( running on WIN2000 as Member Servers ) without
issue. Simply changed to install mode ( change user /install ) and then
entered the path "\\servername\off2k$\data1.msi TRANSFORMS=c:\termsrvr.mst".
Also installed Adobe Acrobat 6.0.1 and File Maker Pro 5.5 in this manner (
although they were not really AIPs ).. Then changed back via change user
/execute. I also locked things down via NTFS permissions and MSKB 278295
and followed Tip 0851 from www.jsiinc.com to have a TS-specific logon script
run.

Cary

 

[Yvonne]

O:\data1.msi TRANSFORMS=c:\xxxx.mst DISABLEROLLBACK=1

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Yvonne, this may or may not be part of the issue, but I have always
intentionally installed software from an administrative installation point
using the UNC method and not a mapped network drive....maybe that is just
from my 'software deployment via GPO mindset'......

Cary