Office 2007 Compatibility Pack Deploy using MSI

[LOUD]

I want to start using GP to deploy msi. I am starting off deploying Office 2007 Compatibility Pack to 50pc's.

I got the msi 012Conv and copied it into a shared folder and then created a GP and assigned it at computer settings.

I restarted the PC and can see it trying to install. I Check the add/remove software and its not there.

Event viewer shows me the following.

1
The Group Policy client-side extension Software Installation failed to execute. Please look for any errors reported earlier by that extension.

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2
Failed to apply changes to software installation settings. Software changes could not be applied. A previous log entry with details should exist. The error was : Fatal error during installation.

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3
Product: Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Office system -- Error 1311. Source file not found(cabinet): \\2003server\Software\O12Conv.cab. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.


Any help would be great.

[garethedmondson]

If I remember correctly, we created a directory on our application share and extracted all of the files that were in the Office Pack .exe

We found these files in the %temp% directory.

We moved them all to the share - but there is more than the MSI that needs copying over. Once that was done it installed properly.

I'm not in school at the moment so I cannot check, but I'm sure that's what we did.

Also - take a look here:

http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=933

Gareth

[ChrisH]

Maybe you need to to an administrative install first to expand the MSI? Then deploy that.

[Geoff]

You can also extract the .exe with 7zip, which is what worked for me. Additionally, I put the 2007 MSI in the same GPO as my 2003 MSI install. That way, when the GPO gets upgraded by 2k7, the converter gets removed too.

I have a separate GPO for MSWorks and ODF converters too, as these are of course wanted independently of the Office revision installed on the PCs in question.

[LOUD]

thanks guys got this sorted.

Like i say you learn something new everyday.