[pchelpers] Re: Updating Office XP Administrative install

Hi Scott

are these any help?:

http://www.svrops.com/svrops/documents/officeupdate.htm
2.      Once client PCs have Office installed from an Administrative 
Installation Point, then all subsequent updates, repairs, installs must 
be done from the Installation Point.  You cannot do these tasks from the 
Office CD.

Note:  Microsoft now supports updating client Office installations that 
were originally installed from an Administrative Installation Point to 
be updated with the client version of an Office update.  In the past 
this was not supported, but because of synchronization issues some 
organizations were having with Office updates, MS now supports this.
However, like most Microsoft products, there are caveats to everything, 
so you need to read about this first.  See this web page:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/journ/Cliupdt.htm

3.      Before you update an administrative installation point, make sure no 
users are using the Office installation share.  If a file on the share 
is in use during the upgrade process, a newer version of that file is 
not copied to the installation point.

plus command line info


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308490#12
How to Create a Log File When You Update an Administrative Installation 
of Office XP
Unlike the client updates, a log file is not created by default for 
updating administrative installations of Office XP. To create a log 
file, after you download and run the IExpress package to extract the 
admin files, run the update with a command line similar to the following
msiexec /a admin path\MSI File /p local path\MSP File SHORTFILENAMES=1 
/L*V C:\verbose.txt
where admin path is the path to your administrative install point for 
Office XP,

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

where local path is the path to the extracted path files (for example, 
C:\adminUpdate), and

where MSP File is the name of the admin update's patch file (for 
example, Winword_admin.msp). For more information about updating an 
administrative installation of Office XP, click the following article 
number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
301348 How to install a public update to administrative installations of 
Office XP

Troubleshooting
If you cannot understand the problem from the Ohotfix.exe file or the 
Windows Installer log files, and you are still having problems updating 
your installation, attempt to repair the Office installation. To do 
this, follow these steps:
1.      Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2.      Double-click Add/Remove Programs.
3.      Double-click the icon for the Office XP program that you want to update.
4.      In the Microsoft Office XP Maintenance Mode dialog box, click Repair 
Office and then click Next.
5.      In the Reinstall/Repair Microsoft Office XP dialog box, click 
Reinstall Office, and then click Finish.
6.      When the repair process is finished, run the public update again.






Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Some of the computers that I take care of have Office XP installed
> from an administrative install point. They were installed that way
> because it supposedly makes updating a lot easier. Unfortunately, I've
> not been able to update the computers to the most recent revision (the
> patches that came out in February, I think it was). The Administrative
> install point is updated, and SOME computers will update ok when I
> refresh them (takes only about a minute), but there are a number which
> will not, whether I do what is supposedly a full install, or just an
> update, using the MSI options listed on the Microsoft site. Does
> anyone have a surefire way of forcing the computers to update to the
> most recent revision, without doing a full uninstall and reinstall? Is
> there something silly that I'm missing?
> 


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