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
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> Subject: [THIN] AIE
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>
>
> 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?
>
> thanks
> pw
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