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Slipstreaming a Service Packs in Office

The following are the instructions for Slipstreaming a Service Pack into your Microsoft Office Installation

These can later be burned to a CD or copied to a network share for distribution.
It saves a lot of time not needing to manually apply all the service packs after installation

There are basically three steps to slipstreaming a Service Pack into an Office Installation:

  1. Do an Office Administrative Install to a Hard Drive

  2. Download and Extract the Service Pack

  3. Apply the Service Pack to the Install

Administrative Install
1.  Create a directory on your hard drive where you want to do the install (e.g. C:\OFFICE)
2. Do an administrative install of Office to a directory on your hard drive (x::setup.exe /a)

Where X: is replaced by the drive letter of the CD ROM where the Office CD is located.
3. When prompted, place it in a C:\OFFICE directory
4. Also type in your Product Key
5. Click on Next
6. Accept the License Agreement
7. Click on the Install button
8.  It will look like it is doing a regular install but the files will be copied to the C:\OFFICE directory
9. Click on the OK button when it is finished.

Download and Extract the Service Pack

There are two basic steps

  1. Download the Office Administrator Service Pack updates from Microsoft

  2. Extract it to a C:\UPDATE directory (again, this is only as an example)

Office2000
1. Office2000 SP1 Download

Office2000 SP2 Download

Office2000 SP3 Download

Outlook2000 Security Download
2. Extract the DATA1.EXE file to C:\UPDATE (data1.msp) (again the directory is an example)
3. To the same for the rest of the service pack files.
OfficeXP
1. OfficeXP SP1 Download

OfficeXP SP2 Download

OfficeXP SP3 Download
2. Extract the files to the Update directory
Office2003
1. Office2003 SP1 Download

Office2003 SP2 Download

Office2003 SP3 Download
2. Extract the files to the Update directory

Apply the Service Pack
Office2000
1. Start / Run
2. msiexec /a c:\office\data1.msi/p c:\update\data1.msp  SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb
msiexec /a c:\office\data1.msi /p c:\update\Sp2admin.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1
3. Repeat for any additional extracted msp files
Outlook2000 Security Update
1. Start / Run
2. msiexec /a c:\office\Data1.msi /p C:\Update\OQFE7082_Client.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1
msiexec /a c:\office\Data1.msi /p C:\Update\OQFE7140_Client.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1
msiexec /a c:\office\Data1.msi /p C:\Update\OQFE7160_Client.msp SHORTFILENAMES=1
OfficeXP
1. Start / Run
2. msiexec /p c:\update\MAINSP1_Admin.msp /a c:\office\your.msi SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE

(where your.msi file is the actual one depending on the version of OfficeXP (e.g. PROPLUS.MSI, SBERET.MSI)
3. Repeat for any additional extracted msp files
Office2003
1. Start / Run
2. msiexec /p c:\update\MAINSP1op.msp /a c:\office\your.msi SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE

(where your.msi file is the actual one depending on the version of Office2003
3. Repeat for any additional extracted msp files