<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Hi,<br><br>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 <span style="font-style: italic;">%comspec% /C start "" /WAIT</span> fails to halt the progression of WPKG so the Office installer runs in parallel with other installs and obviously fails to install.<br><br>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.<br><br>IS this a Windows XP issues that it doesn't honor the start /wait option?<br><br>Cheers Jon <br><br>xpOffice2010.xml:<br><br><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?></span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><packages> </span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><package id="xpOffice2010" </span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"> name="OBI Microsoft Office 2010" </span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"> revision="1" </span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"> reboot="false" </span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"> priority="0"></span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"> <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Microsoft Office Standard 2010" /></span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"> <install cmd='%comspec% /C start "" /WAIT "%SOFTWARE%\office\Office2010-MAK-SP1\setup.exe" /adminfile "%SOFTWARE%\office\obi.MSP"' ></span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"> <exit code="1641" /></span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"> <exit code="3010" /></span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"> </install></span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"> <install cmd='"%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cscript" "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS" /act'/></span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"> <upgrade include="install" /> </span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"></package> </span><br style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"></packages></span><br><br><div><span name="x"></span>-- <br>Jon Rhoades<br>Research Information Systems<br>Eastern Hill Academic Centre<br>(Incorporating The University of Melbourne Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Clinical School (St.Vincent's), St Vincent's Institute and O'Brien Institute)<br><br>St Vincent's Institute<br>9 Princes St Fitzroy Vic 3065<br>p: 03 9288 2480 | x: 2399 | f: 03 9416 2676<br><br>www.stv.unimelb.edu.au<br>www.svi.edu.au<span name="x"></span><br></div><br></div></body></html>