How can I silently "Add Features" to an existing Office 2010 install

[rs217000]

Hey,

 

Long time reader of this forum, but first post.

 

Anyway, roughly 500 machines in our environment have Outlook 2010 installed. Because Citrix, Office, and Sharepoint haven't been playing nice together (different story there), I need to install Word, Excel, and Powerpoint to the said 500+ machines.

 

I originally came at it by creating an MSP through OCT that only installed the said "Features", but it was bombing out since "setup.exe /adminfile *.msp" can only be run during the initial install.

 

I thought about creating a task sequence that uninstalls Outlook, restarts, then installs all the Office with the MSP mentioned above, but there's gotta be a simpler way.

 

Is there a way to silently add Word, Excel, and Powerpoint to an existing installation of Office?

 

 

Thanks!

[Peter van der Woude]

That can be done by using a config.xml, see also: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179195.aspx

[rs217000]

Thanks Peter! I'll give it a go.

[rs217000]

Hey,

 

That document helped out (thanks again). I also used the following document to help identify the OptionState IDs: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179006.aspx

 

If anyone is interested, here's the code I used in the config.xml file:

 

<Configuration Product="ProPlus">
<Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="no" />

<!-- <Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office Professional Plus Setup(*).txt" /> -->
   	<PIDKEY VALUE="put you key here" />
<USERNAME Value="put your user here" />

<COMPANYNAME Value="put your company name here" />

<INSTALLLOCATION Value="%programfiles%\Microsoft Office" />

<!-- <LIS CACHEACTION="CacheOnly" /> -->

<!-- <LIS SOURCELIST="\\server1\share\Office;\\server2\share\Office" /> -->

<!-- <DistributionPoint Location="\\server\share\Office" /> -->

<OptionState Id="OneNoteFiles" State="Absent" Children="force" />
 <OptionState Id="ACCESSFiles" State="Absent" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="EXCELFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="GrooveFiles" State="Absent" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="PPTFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="PubPrimary" State="Absent" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="WORDFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="XDOCSFiles" State="Absent" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="SHAREDFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />
<OptionState Id="TOOLSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" />

 <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" />

<Setting Id="AUTO_ACTIVATE" Value="1" />
<Command Path="%windir%\system32\msiexec.exe" Args="/i \\server\share\my.msi" QuietArg="/q" ChainPosition="after" Execute="install" />
</Configuration>