Instruction for deploying Office 2007 via Group Policy

[Miltongomes]

I just wanted to share some information regarding deploying Office 2007 via Group Policy. I Installed Office 2007 to circa 50 system successfully using Group Policy I think I must share it as it will help other people as well.

• First of all you must setup a MST file to uninstall all other previous installed versions from the server.
• Once done, use Custom Installation Wizard to deploy Office 2007 via GPO.
• Now you must edit/create Config.xml file for installing Office 2007. The code I use in my config is given below.
• Now make a GPO for administering Office 2007
• You must also note to, create a software deployment package for Office 2007 pointing to the EnterpriseWW.msi file in the same Office 2003 GPO deployment. This is to make the GPO uninstall previous version instead of upgrading them to the newer version.

The code I used in my Config.xml is as follows:

<Configuration Product="Enterprise">

<Display Level="basic" CompletionNotice="yes" SuppressModal="no"
AcceptEula="yes" />

<Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office Enterprise
Setup(*).txt" />

<PIDKEY Value="myproductkeywithoutdashes" />

<USERNAME Value="User" />

<COMPANYNAME Value="MyCompany Ltd" />

<INSTALLLOCATION Value="%programfiles%\Microsoft Office" />

<!-- <LIS CACHEACTION="CacheOnly" /> -->

<SOURCELIST Value="\\servername\packages\Office2007" />

<!-- <DistributionPoint Location="\\server\office" /> -->

<OptionState Id="ACCESSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="WORDFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="OUTLOOKFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="PubPrimary" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="AceRepl" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="CAGFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="MSSOAP3" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="OsaNonBoot" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="WISPFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="DocServicesFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="HTMLSourceEditing" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="DocumentImagingUtils" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="OISFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="OSESupp" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="QueryFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="VisioPreviewerFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="XDOCSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="GrooveFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="OneNoteFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="RefIEBarFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="WebDriveFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="VBAFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="OfficeDigitalSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />

<Setting Id="Reboot" Value="IfNeeded" />

<!-- <Command Path="msiexec.exe" Args="/i \\server\share\my.msi"
QuietArg="/q" ChainPosition="after" Execute="install" /> -->

</Configuration>

[Billie]

Thanks for sharing the same buddy. I must tell you that it is exactly the same I tried earlier but instead of uninstalling the earlier version it just left both versions installed on my system. Later I followed and articles from techNet2 and edited my XML file but that too ignored few values while doing the same. The values it ignored were as follows:

INSTALLLOCATION
OptionState
PIDKEY
AddLanguage, RemoveLanguage