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Office 2007 Compatibility Pack SP2

Hi all

previous we instlled the Office 2007 compatibility pack using MSI (download the exe and extract the MSI). I've just downloaded the newer version (SP2) and discovered that there's no MSI in it. I'm just wondering how everybody else has been deploying this ? Using WSUS or using an MSI wrapper ? Or is there an MSI available ?

Thanks in advance

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Posted by: joedown 15 years ago
Third Degree Brown Belt
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Download the original Compatibility pack and the SP2 patch. Unfortunately MS does not allow you to create an Admin install point and patch it with the SP2 patch. The SP 2 patch will have to be applied after install. Lame[:'(]
Posted by: elgwhoppo 15 years ago
Senior Purple Belt
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I just downloaded it from here.

When I ran this command:
compatibilitypacksp2-kb953331-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:"C:\extracttemp"

I got the MSP file called "O12Convsp2-en-us.msp" and the eula.txt. Did you get that also?
Posted by: y2k 15 years ago
Senior Yellow Belt
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Hi Guys, thanks for the replies.

You're absolutely right elgwhoppo - I hadn't tried running it from CLI ... my bad [:)]
I had just tried extracting with WinZip ... lazy me !!

However, there still isn't really any way to apply it via GPO is there ? We don't have SCCM or any other app deployment solution ... just GPO's

I guess maybe my easiest option is to use download from Microsoft Catalog into WSUS ? Will that be an update to the existing verion or a completely new install though ? I guess it would be an update seing that there's only an MSP in there ?
Posted by: anonymous_9363 15 years ago
Red Belt
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However, there still isn't really any way to apply it via GPO is there Patching clients directly is too much like hard work.

Take a copy of the current AIP, patch that, then create your new GPO.
Posted by: y2k 15 years ago
Senior Yellow Belt
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Unfortunately MS does not allow you to create an Admin install point and patch it with the SP2 patch. The SP 2 patch will have to be applied after install
I understood from the above that this wasn't possible ? I've also tried this myself and it just doesn't do anything after launching the initial window

I do agree that patching is too much work, but looks like WSUS is my best option. Has anybody tried using any MSI authoring programs to push this update ?
Posted by: turbokitty 15 years ago
6th Degree Black Belt
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Yeah, those that aren't stuck with GPO:
msiexec /i O12Conv.msi PATCH=O12Convsp2-en-us.msp /qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress

I can't believe companies are still using GPO...
Posted by: anonymous_9363 15 years ago
Red Belt
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968 objects AND counting...they install per-user, too. LOL

TBF, we do have some stuff in SCCM but per-user installs, particularly those with dependencies, have been a challenge.
Posted by: y2k 15 years ago
Senior Yellow Belt
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I can't believe companies are still using GPO...
Yea unfortunately so. But to be fair, for some small companies I guess the budget just isn't there

That said - we have over 500 users and 20 servers. The problem is that there's a freeze on major IT changes this year until we upgrade to 2008 next year

As for why we're taking so long to upgrade to 2008 ... don't ask [:D]
Posted by: turbokitty 15 years ago
6th Degree Black Belt
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Ouch. SCCM is so cheap, I don't get it.. but we're just consultants... no one listens to us. [:)]
Posted by: anonymous_9363 15 years ago
Red Belt
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SCCM is so cheapTBF once again, at the time the decision was made to go with GP, the company was very small and SMS (as it then was) was VERY expensive, especially when provided through a third-party FM crowd, whose idea of service is to first add a minimum 30% to the actual cost. Since then, that company was swallowed up by my current client, the third-party kicked out and the IT operation handed to the minnow company.
Posted by: anyoneis 15 years ago
Senior Yellow Belt
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I had to include a path for the patch file:

msiexec /i O12Conv.msi PATCH="%CD%\O12Convsp2-en-us.msp" /qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress

David
Posted by: Sticksy 15 years ago
Yellow Belt
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So is there not a way to combine the msp from the SP2 compatibility pack to the msi file for the compatibility pack to form a new msi that includes both?

That's what I am working on accomplishing and can't seem to work the two together.
Posted by: adventuresinsccm 14 years ago
Yellow Belt
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For people using SCCm to deploy the compatibility pack with SP2, what command line do you use?
I used msiexec /i O12Conv.msi PATCH=O12Convsp2-en-us.msp /qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress, but it errors out with code 1635, which basically means it couldnt open the patch package. I extracted the exe file of SP2 into the same folder as the compatibility pack, so the msi and msp files are situated in the same place in my sccm package.
Funny thing is if I run the command msiexec /i O12Conv.msi /qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress, without the Service pack, it runs fine.

Anyone else facing this issue?
Posted by: anonymous_9363 14 years ago
Red Belt
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As ever, you should be using a patched Administrative Installation Point, not patching clients. If persisting with the client route, you will need to install first using '/i' etc. then apply the patch, using '/P'. You can't install and patch at the same time, which is what your command line is attempting.
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