[wpkg-users] Deploying office 2010

[Kevin Keane]

I suspect that what is going on has to do with UAC rather than with a separate process. If wpkg.js runs as ordinary user (even an Administrator), the installer has to switch to the "internal" Administrator account in order to actually do the installation. Since this actually switches to another account, you lose all file shares when this happens.

Solution: make sure that when you run wpkg.js, you launch it with "run as administrator" permission. You can also launch it as a startup script from a group policy (don't launch it as a logon script - that runs as the regular user).

Here is how I install Office 2010: Note that you need to put the configuration XML file into the %SOFTWARE%\configs directory. The %SOFTWARE%\MSOffice2010 directory contains everything that's on the CDs.

This is for Professional Plus; you may need to make adjustments for other versions of Office.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<packages
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../xsd/packages.xsd" >

   <package id="office2010proplus" name="Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus" revision="20100" reboot="false" priority="10">
     <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010" />
     <install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\MSOffice2010\setup.exe" /config "%SOFTWARE%\configs\MSOffice2010_ProPlusr.config.xml"' >
       <exit code="3010" reboot="postponed"/>
     </install>
     <upgrade cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\MSOffice2010\setup.exe" /config "%SOFTWARE%\configs\MSOffice2010_ProPlusr.config.xml"' >
       <exit code="3010" reboot="postponed"/>
     </upgrade>
     <remove cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\MSOffice2010\setup.exe" /uninstall ProPlusr /config "%SOFTWARE%\configs\MSOffice2010_ProPlusr.config.xml"' >

       <exit code="3010" reboot="postponed"/>
     </remove>
   </package>

</packages>

-----Original Message-----
From: wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org [mailto:wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of DANY CHOUINARD
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 6:34 AM
To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
Subject: [wpkg-users] Deploying office 2010

I'm (barely) deploying office 2010 in schools labs.  I thought everything was quit fine (not really, but it was working when wpkg.js was called from the command prompt) but the Office's setup.exe forks into it's own process and loose it's network share once wpkg.js is done.
Therefore no Office get ever deployed at bootup when using the wpkg service.

It would be cool if anyone was able to make the script waits the completion of the installation.

Since I couldn't find any guide to deploy office 2010, here is how I'm doing it :

You need to create an MSP.  To do so, simply run "setup.exe /admin" from the installation CD.  This is the nice and cool thing from office 2010.
Put the MSP file in x86/Updates.

Now in package.xml

<package id="office2010"
        name="Microsoft Office 2010"
        revision="1"
        reboot="false"
        priority="40">
        <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010" />
        <install cmd='%comspec% /C start "" /I /WAIT "%SOFTWARE% \office2010\setup.exe" /adminfile "%SOFTWARE%\office2010\x86\Updates
\horizon-office.msp" ' >
                <exit code="1641" reboot="delayed"/>
        </install>
        <upgrade cmd='%comspec% /C start /wait "%SOFTWARE%\office2010 \setup.exe" /adminfile "%SOFTWARE%\office2010\x86\Updates
\horizon-office.msp"' >
                <exit code="1641" reboot="delayed"/>
        </upgrade>
        <remove cmd='%comspec% /C start /wait "%SOFTWARE%\office2010 \setup.exe" /uninstall ProPlus.WW /config  "%SOFTWARE%\office2010\x86 \ProPlus.WW\silentuninstall.xml"' /> </package>

By the way, yo have to write down your own "silentuninstall.xml".  Mine looks like this :

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

You'll be please to know that for own security, the software has to be activate.  Normal user can't, just administrator.  There is a VBS script that do that (i was about to cry).  It can be spawn from the installer by the MSP.  Google that, it's true!  But that wont work for me, obviously 'cause an old voodoo spell cast upon I.  I instead use this package :

<package id="office2010-horizon-activation" name="Activation d'Office 2010"
                revision="1"
                reboot="false"
                priority="40">
        <depends package-id="office2010-horizon" />
        <check type="execute" path="%software%\office2010 \activation.bat" condition="exitcodeequalto" value="0" />
        <install cmd='"c:\windows\system32\cscript" "c:\program files \Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.vbs" /act' />

</package>

Activation.bat contain the following code :
c:\windows\system32\cscript "c:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office14 \OSPP.vbs" /dstatus | find "---LICENSED---"
exit %errorlevel%

There, I bared it all.  This works fine when called manually, but the installer complain that he loose the network share when run from the wpkg service.  I guess it is normal since the installer fork it's process, letting the wpkg.js script terminate.

I hope someone will find a neat hack to install office 2010.


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