This document also describes the format of the Setup settings file. For more information, see Supplemental Documentation in the Toolbox. Install Office quietly By default, Setup installs Office XP with a full user interface and displays a completion notice at the end of the installation. In many large organizations, however, it is more efficient to install Office without any user interaction. Error messages and other modal dialog boxes are not displayed.
Setup displays a completion notice when the installation is finished.
When you run Office XP Setup with a basic or reduced display, users can still click the Cancel button to stop the installation process. Users know that the installation is occurring and they know when it is complete, but they cannot interrupt the process. If you are using a deployment tool such as Microsoft Systems Management Server to run the installation when users are not logged on, then you must use this display setting. For example, if you install Office XP with a full user interface, you can install the System Files Update quietly to ensure that system files and Internet Explorer are updated the same way for every user. Basic Similarly, if you install Office XP quietly, but you want users to choose their MUI Packs in the Multilingual User Interface Pack Wizard, you can specify a full user interface for each chained MUI Pack package in the appropriate section of Setup.ini.