[wpkg-users] Office 2010 & Windows XP...

[Jon Rhoades]

Hi, 

We've been happily installing Office 2010 on Windows 7 for some time now. Unfortunately against my better judgment we need to install it on 30 or so Windows XP machines. I'm using the same package file, but with a new customised msp adminfile however the %comspec% /C start "" /WAIT fails to halt the progression of WPKG so the Office installer runs in parallel with other installs and obviously fails to install. 

When I run WPKG manually from the command line I can see that the Office splash screen is spawned and the silent (ha!) installation occurs. My solution has been to set it as priority=0 so that it installs last without the possibility of interference. 

IS this a Windows XP issues that it doesn't honor the start /wait option? 

Cheers Jon 

xpOffice2010.xml: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<packages> 
<package id="xpOffice2010" 
name="OBI Microsoft Office 2010" 
revision="1" 
reboot="false" 
priority="0"> 
<check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Microsoft Office Standard 2010" /> 
<install cmd='%comspec% /C start "" /WAIT "%SOFTWARE%\office\Office2010-MAK-SP1\setup.exe" /adminfile "%SOFTWARE%\office\obi.MSP"' > 
<exit code="1641" /> 
<exit code="3010" /> 
</install> 
<install cmd='"%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cscript" "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS" /act'/> 

<upgrade include="install" /> 
</package> 
</packages> 


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Jon Rhoades 
Research Information Systems 
Eastern Hill Academic Centre 
(Incorporating The University of Melbourne Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Clinical School (St.Vincent's), St Vincent's Institute and O'Brien Institute) 

St Vincent's Institute 
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