[wpkg-users] MS Office 2003 problem

[Ari Constancio]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Jens Geile <jens.geile at mzbs.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Microsoft Office 2003 Professional with WPKG but as soon as I copy the install source dir onto my server I keep getting exit code 1603 when I run the following command:
>
> <install cmd='"%SOFTWARE_ISERV%\msoff2k3pro\setup.exe" /qn ADDLOCAL=ALL REBOOT=ReallySuppress ALLUSERS=1 PIDKEY=%ci_msoff2k3pro%"' />
>
> All other combinations like
> <install cmd='msiexec /qn /i "%SOFTWARE_ISERV%\msoff2k3pro\pro11.msi" ADDLOCAL=ALL REBOOT=ReallySuppress ALLUSERS=1 PIDKEY=%ci_msoff2k3pro%"' />
> or the likes are also failing with exit code 1603.
>
> The thing is that it works fine when I use these commands when running directly from the CD and even if I run it off of the local harddisk. But as soon as I try running it from the server it fails.
> I also tried creating and administrative installation point with /a but even from that installation point I keep getting exit code 1603.
>
> I'm kind of out of ideas here.... Any ideas?
>
> -
> jens

Hi Jens,

You have to extract the Office CD contents to a network installation
point with 'setup.exe /a' when running the CD - please check
http://wpkg.org/MS_Office_2003 for details.
IIRC you can extract to a local folder and then copy the whole
directory to your server.

Regards,
Ari Constancio