[pawan]

Beta2 TR1 is larger than Beta 2. Integration will surely be great and will consume less space, now its take around 900 MB (Both files).

Pawan

[/.er]

This may seem jarbled, please just accept it.

Hello everyone, quick question. It’s nearly time to do a fresh install of XP, but Office 2007 Beta 2 /TR is proving to be problematic. [I don’t want ot burn them both to separate disks, lose them and find them again, and just waste perfectly good CDs] For some reason, if I choose to customize the install and remove the programs that I don’t want/need [I only use Word & Excel, and I do my PowerPoint in HTML, and Chandler is quite acceptable as an Outlook replacement] the setup has a heart attack and just dies. I’m left with two five hundred megabyte files [B2 + TR] and I only use two programs. Anyways, is there a way to merge both the beta and refresh files, and strip out the files for all the programs I don’t need [which are Access, Infopath, Publisher, Outlook, and PowerPoint] and just keep the Word/Excel files?

Yes, I could just use StarOffice 8, or OpenOffice.Org for that matter, but I’m in love with the ribbon, and I actually do like M$ on some levels. Someone please help me?

[Cybertronic]

Is there a solution to configure a customised version of Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh?

I'm just being curious because when you extract the files, the extracted files is different to the previous beta and as mentioned above, is bigger in size overall.

As far as I know, there's only a silent application install but no such file to allow customisation. Please let me know if there is any!

This post has been edited by Cybertronic: 11 November 2006 - 02:18 PM

[prathapml]

There's no way to cut down files from this version, yet.
And there's no way i found to merge the TR into B2. Just gotta install B2 using the customisation methods above, & then just run all the *.MSP files contained in B2TR, one-by-one.

In either case, off2007 final should be out anytime now.

[#rootworm]

it's been out

big thanks for the thread prathapml.

here are some settings i added to your XML for Enterprise:

<OptionState Id="GrooveFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //groove
<OptionState Id="OneNoteFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //onenote
<OptionState Id="RefIEBarFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //research explorer bar
<OptionState Id="WebDriveFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //hosted webs
<OptionState Id="VBAFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //VB for applications
<OptionState Id="OfficeDigitalSFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //vba certificates

i also attached a little exe that executes this: setup.exe /config custom.xml
(so be sure to name your config file custom.xml and place it beside the exe if you use it)

it's 88k because 79k of it is all 10 icons from the original setup.exe, windows chooses the appropriate icon size & color depth automatically. i think there's also a 256x256x24bit vista icon, and even though i can't test it, should work fine.

so now i run custom.exe to install the slimmed down version, or regular setup.exe to install/customize the full version.

you can decompile the exe with my ExeScript decompiler at http://www.msfn.org/...showtopic=86493 to confirm what it does

Attached File(s)

•  custom.exe (88K)
  Number of downloads: 410

This post has been edited by #rootworm: 13 November 2006 - 01:39 AM

[prathapml]

Thanks for the work!

btw, the "Option A" method is easier & works with (RTM - final) Office 2007 Enterprise now.
You could even drop the unattended-custom.MSP file in the "Updates" folder & setup will pick it up automatically.










If only someone found how to disable the local installation source ( the useless MSOcache folder ).......

[sk8er_boi]

prathapml, on Nov 13 2006, 03:02 AM, said:

Thanks for the work!

btw, the "Option A" method is easier & works with (RTM - final) Office 2007 Enterprise now.
You could even drop the unattended-custom.MSP file in the "Updates" folder & setup will pick it up automatically.










If only someone found how to disable the local installation source ( the useless MSOcache folder ).......

Yeah update folder is a nice option. But u must have 1.4gb's of free space to install.

[ajua]

its great that MS now comes with this "edit all the tons of features in office". This way we can forge to import custom settings and other annoyances. Just complete the confguration wizard using option A and thats all.

Doing it right now, will post results. thanks for the info.

[stavpal]

How can I create unattended setup of Office 2007 as an ugrade of office 2003? (and slipstreaming it in a windows 2003 r2 dvd)

Thanks in advance

This post has been edited by stavpal: 16 November 2006 - 07:54 AM

[fizban2]

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If only someone found how to disable the local installation source ( the useless MSOcache folder ).......

sadly you can't get rid of the local installation folder as it is needed now, since administrative installation points have gone away. local installation files will always be generated for the installation.

[prathapml]

stavpal, on Nov 16 2006, 07:21 PM, said:

How can I create unattended setup of Office 2007 as an ugrade of office 2003? (and slipstreaming it in a windows 2003 r2 dvd)

Creating unattended setup is described in my first post in this topic.
By default, o2k7 will upgrade o2k3.
And to slip-stream (or rather, install o2k7 with svr2k3R2) read the MSFN unattended guide.

fizban2, on Nov 16 2006, 08:40 PM, said:

sadly you can't get rid of the local installation folder as it is needed now, since administrative installation points have gone away. local installation files will always be generated for the installation.

I read about it, but clearly LIS is not that much an essential part. Right since the office 2000 days, i've always been led to believe that the LIS is on the hard-disk for the purpose of re-install/repair-install/etc.
And its the same case even now, because setup installs o2k7 completely, then makes the MSOcache folder, & then exits. So it has no part to play in 1st-install, and I see no need for any repairs, considering that any install-problems on our systems will be fixed by a restore of original disk-image.

I'm going to be forced to edit the CUSTOM.MSP to add a post-install task - a CMD script to search all writable partitions for the folder named MSOcache & if found, remove it!

[ajua]

i think that 5xx mb are not much of a space eater. and its saves people a lot of problems with the modify/repair. for me, im letting the folder as it is.

windows should have a function to "completely hide" a folder/archive so it doesnt display it, not even when turning off hide hidden files. this way we can hide many things that are annoying like SYSTEMTOOLS folder of diskeeper.

[prathapml]

590 MB definitely is a space eater.
Especially, when i deliberately create a C: partition of only 7.5 GB to hold only the most important parts of the system - OS & basic apps alone - all else to other partition. (& i have a 500 GB HDD).

Moreover, its not about "space occupied" - its about unnecessary junk that you KNOW will NEVER be used.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Don't know if possible but can all other Lang be trimmed from the Admin dir?
Its around 26 meg & the Eng dir is only 2 meg. Really like to trim this one.

[ajua]

prathapml, on Nov 17 2006, 03:52 AM, said:

590 MB definitely is a space eater.
Especially, when i deliberately create a C: partition of only 7.5 GB to hold only the most important parts of the system - OS & basic apps alone - all else to other partition. (& i have a 500 GB HDD).

Moreover, its not about "space occupied" - its about unnecessary junk that you KNOW will NEVER be used.

i agree. i just mentioned that the modify/repair functionality is a saver for "average" people. personally i dont like to have any unnecessary stuff in my system so when a solution come out i will use it. but when people call me and say: "i tried to open x document but the program crashed..." well, its easy to tell them just to repair the installation. it saves me a lot of trips to install it over again.

[pdmcmahon]

Trying to force the Local Installation Source to be put in a different location. Does anyone know how to do this?

[ZileXa]

Would it be possible to shrink Office2007?
I have been using an unattended shrinked Office2003, 60MB (still using CD, since there are still a lot of computers without DVD). So I am hoping I will be able to shrink 2007 as well

[prathapml]

I would like to shrink it too.
And eliminate the LIS as well! (MSOcache)

[MagicAndre1981]

Any Ideas how to start?

[rado354]

I hope you guys will soon find a way to get rid of the MSOcache folder because it's so annoying.

And some GUI tool for Office Shrink would be nice too

Until then, I stay with Office XP.

This post has been edited by rado354: 28 November 2006 - 01:22 PM