[jimanny]

I successfully slipstreamed SP2 following marek722's tutorial but I still cannot install the two subsequent updates KB907417 and KB905648 either manually or from Office Update. Is anyone else able to install these?

Update: Ok, this has something to do with I'm installing Office 2003 on Windows Server 2003. I ran the same Office install on a vmware XPSP2 and had no problems installing all office updates. Just by quick inspection, I noticed in XP the service "Office Source Engine" is manual but started before doing the update from Office Update. With Server 2003 the service wasn't started but the updates still failed even after starting the service.

I was going to see if I could use Server as my workstation, but it seems not feasible for me because of this and a couple other minor issues. Anyway it was worth a try, back to XP...

This post has been edited by jimanny: 01 January 2006 - 03:10 PM

[amit_talkin]

eSouL, on Aug 4 2005, 08:21 PM, said:

What is ORCA?

i also like to know that!!

[johnsock]

amit_talkin, on Jan 3 2006, 08:34 AM, said:

eSouL, on Aug 4 2005, 08:21 PM, said:

What is ORCA?

i also like to know that!!

To quote Microsoft:

"Orca.exe is a database table editor for creating and editing Windows Installer packages and merge modules. The tool provides a graphical interface for validation, highlighting the particular entries where validation errors or warnings occur."

It's part of the Platform SDK Components for Windows Installer Developers. It is available as a web download here:

SDK x86 Web Install

Other Versions are available here:

Platform SDK

Or a full ISO download:

SDK ISO Download

[TruBlu01]

IS there away to do an Unattended install and keep the install files? (MSOCache)

[ykaramati2]

Attention for :
AgentZero and some one has problem with this Error

calculating md5 for XXXXXXXX.CAB (#######):
md5sum: XXXXXXXX.CAB: No such file or directory
Error: [object Error]

your md5sum.exe has some problem. please download Newsort2cabs.rar from My Topic that's include a good MD5SUM.EXE. My Edited Version of Sort2Cabs.js (Called NewSort2Cabs.js) has some benefits.

Reduce Size of Your 5 in 1 Office 2003 SP1/SP2 CD by 36MB

This post has been edited by ykaramati2: 04 January 2006 - 01:09 AM

[Doodoo]

Great guide !!!

I have successfully slipstreamed office SP2 and rebuilt an all-in-one CD with both English and French versions of Office 2003. (the french version is smaller... only 543 Mb !!)

I have a couple of questions though:

1/ When slipstreaming hotfixes, how can one know to which MSI package each MSP file must be applied to ?? In fact, the same question applies to service pack files. For example (quoted from the very first post) :

X:\SP1\MAINSP1ff.msp is applied to both X:\office2003\PRO11.MSI and to X:\office2003\FP11.MSI

Where can this information be found ? For example, in order to update outlook junk email filter (KB905648), to which MSI package must OUTLFLTR.msp be applied to ? I am quite sure it must be applied to PRO11.MSI, but how to know if there is not another MSI package that must *** ALSO *** be patched ? Same quesrion for all post-SP2 hotfixes !!

2/ When patching MSI packages, is there a specific order to do that ? Can anyone complete the example from the very first post with *** ALL *** office components ?

3/ Since I am interested in building an all-in-one CD, I have copied the content of all 5 CDs to the same directory (X:\office2003), overwriting all files, except setup.ini files which I have renamed to setup-xxx.ini

Overwriting all files (mostly cab files) is not a problem, since all files with the same same are identical, but there are two exceptions though :

On CD 4 (project pro), these files differ from the ones with the same name on other CDs :

files\pfiles\msoffice\office11\oclncore.opc (both for french and english versions of office)
files\pfiles\msoffice\office11\1036\oclnintl.opc (only for french version of Office)

Although I have overwritten theses files, my AIO CD seems to work perfectly : I can setup Project Pro without any problem.... But is it really 100% safe to do that ? Is there any chance that a problem is hidden somwhere (not in the setup it seems...)

4/ Last but not least.... Is there any way to avoid the manual editing with ORCA, and write a batch doing the same thing ?

Thanks a lot for your time and to any one who could give me some information !

[Doodoo]

No one can provide me with any information ?

[newbee]

is this forum still active?

[Acheron]

I was wondering if this method can be used also for other MSI packages.

For example I created an customized Adminstrative Installation Point for Paint Shop Pro X and I would like to compress these files back into a CABINET file. However I stumbled across many MSI editors, but none of them can recompress the updated files into a cabinet file!

Bookmarked

[Acheron]

Ok, I found out the very useful Windows Installer vbs scripts from the SDK. With WiMakCab.vbs it's become very easy to recompress MSI packages.

See also http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/libra...ile_cabinet.asp.
I sucessfully applied this method to an administrative install point I created for .NET 1.1 with SP1 and security update merged into it. Altough size becomes a few MB's bigger than using a 7-zip package, setup doesn't have to extract all files at once anymore. This can save some speed when deploying software.
But the biggest advantage is that users can restore, or install extra feautures through the Software Configuration Panel

[whakamaru]

Need help
I have used SP2 on all MS Office apps and when I run newsort2cabs.js I get the following error

sorting files...
md5sum: ..\FILES\PFILES\MSOFFICE\VISIO11\1033\SETUP.CHM: No such file or directory

Error: [object Error]

I have run the whole script without Visio2003 and it all works perfectly.

[alhaddar]

What do you need:
- ORCA
- MSI 3.1 installed
- WSH 5.6 installed

where I get this files


pls help

thanks

alhaddar

[Siginet]

OK... it's been a long time since I messed with doing this. I see now that the download for sort2cab.zip is broken.

I got newsort2cab.zip... but it isn't working for me.

I forget what the tabledirs.lst and xmlfiles.lst files should look like.


currently I have them both looking like this:

OWC10
OWC11
PRO11

Is that correct?

I keep getting an error settings.ddf not found.

also... I am trying to add the 3 latest updates. I have allready used this method on my source. Is it possible I am having these issues because it is previously slipstreamed using this very method?

[colornokia]

Sort2cab

[whakamaru]

I am having trouble getting this hotfix slipstreamed.

Update for Outlook 2003 (KB913807) (English version)

I have slipstreamed SP2 and these hotfixes in the following order

Security Update for Excel 2003 (KB905756)
Security Update for PowerPoint 2003 (KB916518)
Security Update for Word 2003 (KB917334)
Update for Office 2003 (KB907417)
Update for Outlook 2003 (KB913807) (English version)
Update for Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB917149)


When I have completed the installation of Office 2003 and run the MS Office update it says that the Update for Outlook 2003 (KB913807) (English version) needs to be installed.

Can some one point me in the right direction on this please.

[beeker]

Great procedure marek722! After doing one CD I decided to help automate some tasks.

With a lot of googling and trial and error, I made some AutoIt scripts for the Orca parts.
I picked up Orca at Shark's file repository, Thanks Shark007!
For the last part of marek722's Step 3, use the attached Export_msi_tables.au3 script to create the subdirectories for every msi and it runs Orca to extract the 5 tables to the appropriate directories.

I run the following cmd file called start_script.cmd after Step 3:

@echo off
ECHO.
ECHO   Copying the xml files from ..\FILES\SETUP\
COPY /Y ..\FILES\SETUP\*.xml .
ECHO   Creating xmlfiles.lst and tabledirs.lst files
DIR /B *.xml > xmlfiles.lst
DIR /B /AD > tabledirs.lst
cscript sort2cabs.js
pause
ECHO.
ECHO   Copying the updated xml files to ..\FILES\SETUP\
XCOPY /Y /R /U /I *.xml ..\FILES\SETUP\
ECHO.
ECHO Now restore the backed up ini files in ..\FILES\SETUP\
ECHO and delete all files that were NOT originally on the office cd.
ECHO.
pause

That covers steps 4 and 5 (don't need tabledirs.lst and xmlfiles.lst anymore because they're created automatically).
Use the AutoIt script called Update_msi_tables.au3 (attached) to run Orca and import the new tables into the msi packages (that covers step 6).

Now I need help with the js code to call this AutoIt script from marek722's sort2cabs.js where it pauses with: update MSI files with the new tables and press <enter> to continue ...

I also plan to use benase's fix for Max compression (Post #15) and tCP's batch to delete unwanted files (Post #20). With benase's fix for Max compression, we don't need the settings.ddf file anymore.

Note: The start_script.cmd file and AutoIt scripts go in the same "sort" directory as sort2cabs.js
Thanks for sharing everyone!

Attached File(s)

•  Update_msi_tables.au3 (5K)
  Number of downloads: 58
•  Export_msi_tables.au3 (4.79K)
  Number of downloads: 56

This post has been edited by beeker: 04 September 2006 - 07:48 PM

[beeker]

whakamaru, on Jun 23 2006, 08:24 AM, said:

When I have completed the installation of Office 2003 and run the MS Office update it says that the Update for Outlook 2003 (KB913807) (English version) needs to be installed.

Did you apply both msp's (OUTLOOKff.msp and OLKINTLff.msp) to OUTLS11.MSI ?

[beeker]

Oh joy, I got the sort2cabs.js script to call the AutoIt script by copying some of marek722's existing code for oExec (don't understand it all, but) and adding an If statement.
(now I'm hooked on all this coding stuff but my wife's angry)

With AutoIt installed, all you have to do is right click on the "Update_msi_tables.au3" file and choose "Compile script". Now we can call the "Update_msi_tables.exe" file from marek722's script sort2cabs.js with the following modification:
In the "// main" section I added a variable declaration:
var oExec
and where he had the following two lines:
WScript.StdOut.Write("\nNow update your MSI files with the new tables and press <enter> to continue ...");
WScript.StdIn.ReadLine();

I wrapped the following code around it:
// update MSI files manually, or use compiled AutoIt script if available
arRun = "Update_msi_tables.exe"
if (fso.FileExists(arRun)) {
WScript.Echo("\nRunning " + arRun + " to update msi files");
oExec = wsh.Exec(arRun);
while (oExec.Status != 1) {
WScript.Sleep(100); // too large? ...
// following is simply sick! ... ReadAll produces buffer overflow ... Read waits for LF, too! ...
while (!oExec.StdOut.AtEndOfStream) WScript.StdOut.Write(oExec.StdOut.Read(40)); // >1 for faster looping
while (!oExec.StdErr.AtEndOfStream) WScript.StdErr.Write(oExec.StdErr.Read(1));
}
} else {
WScript.StdOut.Write("\nNow update your MSI files with the new tables and press <enter> to continue ...");
WScript.StdIn.ReadLine();
}
This doesn't break the existing functionality if you don't have the AutoIt script.
Attached is a version with these modifications plus the mod from post #15.

I'll be trying some more automation later this week (when the wife is asleep).

EDIT: 24 Sep 2006 - Modified sort2cabs.js again so that it uses cabarc (better compression) as first choice if it exists in %windir%\System32, otherwise use makecab and settings.ddf like marek722's original sort2cabs.js Added Veger's fix for md5sum also, Thanks.

Attached File(s)

•  sort2cabs.js (18.4K)
  Number of downloads: 106

This post has been edited by beeker: 24 September 2006 - 06:13 PM

[NiGHTsC]

Can someone tell me how to do this for SP2?
I just got this SP2 version "Microsoft.Office.2003.Pro.SP2.English.AIO.5.in.1.DVD.v3-MANiacs.iSO"

Quote

4. Copy XML files located at X:\office2003\FILES\SETUP to X:\office2003\sort. Now edit X:\office2003\sort\tabledirs.lst and X:\office2003\sort\xmlfiles.lst to match your need. tabledirs.lst lists all directories containing the exported tables from the msi packages (existence is checked in sort2cabs.js) and xmlfiles.lst lists all xml to edit (correct md5sums).

I extract the ISO and I didn't see any XML files in \FILES\SETUP\, there's only 1 file and it's SETUP.INI

Quote

5. Open a command line (cmd) and change path to X:\office2003\sort. Start sort2cabs using folling syntax:CODEcscript sort2cabs.js
for successful completion md5sum.exe and makecab.exe should be placed in a directory listed in the path variable! ok, time for a cup of coffee

I'm using WinXP SP2, I put "makecab.exe" and "md5sum.exe" in C:\Windows\System32, but I got an error after runing sort2cabs.js
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
G:\MS\OFFICE03SP2\sort>cscript sort2cabs.js
Microsoft ® Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright © Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

directories found:
sorting files...
sorting cabs...
renumbering...

Replacing some CAB Files

Error: [object Error]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Quote

I successfully slipstreamed SP2 following marek722's tutorial but I still cannot install the two subsequent updates KB907417 and KB905648 either manually or from Office Update. Is anyone else able to install these?

Update: Ok, this has something to do with I'm installing Office 2003 on Windows Server 2003. I ran the same Office install on a vmware XPSP2 and had no problems installing all office updates. Just by quick inspection, I noticed in XP the service "Office Source Engine" is manual but started before doing the update from Office Update. With Server 2003 the service wasn't started but the updates still failed even after starting the service.

I was going to see if I could use Server as my workstation, but it seems not feasible for me because of this and a couple other minor issues. Anyway it was worth a try, back to XP...

jimanny, can you tell me how did you slipstream SP2?
I got some problems after Step4.
Thank you.

This post has been edited by NiGHTsC: 12 September 2006 - 12:38 PM

[NiGHTsC]

Help please, I have to burn my Office CD, but it's 900MB ><
Thank you.