in my scenario, i'm specifically looking at how to keep MS Office
patched that I have installed into AIE. I have 1 server running both
office 2000 and officexp and i want to make sure that i can remain up to
date. is the method that you described a fit for this?
Rick Mack wrote:
Hi Philip,************************************************
Excluding AIE at the moment, you've got 2 different approaches for patching Office products:
(1) Patch your servers directly. This process can obviously be easily automated, but it does involve invoking the patching process (slow, i/o intensive) on each server. This has the advantage of allowing you to reverse out of a hotfix.
(2) Patch your administrative install point. Test the patched product thoroughly and then propagate the changes ONLY (files and registry) using msiexec /i product.msi REINSTALLMODE=om (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/reinstallmode.asp). You can still back out of a hotfix, but it involves remving the patch and then rerunning the REINSTALLMODEprocess.
The advantage of the second approach is that the patch rollout is faster than the "standard" (1) patching method and it has the further advantage from your viewpoint that it's fairly easy to update files in an AIE. Worst case is updating (reinstalling) the AIE with the updated admin install image.
regards,
Rick
Ulrich Mack Volante Systems
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Philip Walley Sent: Thu 17/08/2006 4:02 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] AIE
Hello list,
I've recently installed 2 versions of office into my AIE. How do I patch apps installed into AIE? Not just service packs, but what about regular patches?
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