Newsgroup: it.comp.os.win.win2000
Titolo: Distribuire service pack di Office con Active Directory

Salve a tutti,
per quanto mi sia documento in rete e con i manuali della MS (quelli per la
certificazione) non sono ancora riuscito a chiarire completamente come
operare per distribuire gli aggiornamenti di Office (service pack 1 e 2) in
un dominio Win2000 con Active Directory.
Vorrei evitare naturalmente di andare in ogni postazione per installare il
SP. Gli esempi che ho trovato finora indicano come distribuire il SP del
Sistema Operativo sfruttando il pacchetto update.msi contenuto nella
distribuzione. In Office però trovo un pacchetto .msp e un eseguibile con
dll ma non so come usarli.
Qualcuno sa darmi istruzioni su come procedere?
Grazie
Bye
John

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Trovato in rete ma non testato personalmente:
To do this you need to update the Administrative install 
of Office XP and then apply the patch.  Here is how:
Go to \\servername\sharename\xxx.msi file ( for Office 
XP ).  Somewhere on that server create a folder called 
offxpsp2 - or whatever. Download or copy the Office XP SP2 
file and expand it into the folder you just created.  This 
will give you a couple of .msp files ( must admit, have 
done this many many times for Office 2000, never for 
Office XP ).  Then, and this is the key point, go to a 
command prompt and enter the following:
msiexec /p \\servername\sharename\offxpsp2.msp /a 
\\servername\sharename\offxp.msi SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb
where offxpsp2.msp is one of the Service Pack 2 .msp files 
( you will need to do this for each .msp file ) and where 
offxp.msi is the original install.  DO NOT FORGET the 
shortfilenames=true!!!!!  This is very important.  If you 
do not do this, the files in the PF folder will be ignored 
and the .msp file will create a "Program Files" folder.  
It takes forever and your clients will take about 70 
minutes to upgrade.  They will not like that at all.  
There are problems if you forget this, needless to say.  
The final /qb is simply telling msiexec to do this in 
quiet mode.
Like I said, you need to do this for each .msp file.  
Also, you can only do an Administrative Installation of 
Office XP Enterprise version.  After you have updated the 
Administrative install with the .msp files you need to go 
back to the GPO(s) and right click it/them, select Tasks 
and then Redeploy Application.  This will announce the GPO.
The only question left is how to do this: meaning, do you 
assign it or publish it.  And, do you do this to the user 
side or to the computer side.  If you do it to the 
computer side then you can only assign it.  If you do it 
to the user side you have the choice.  If you choose the 
computer side then WHOEVER logs onto that computer will 
have Office XP.  If you to it to the user side then Office 
XP will follow that person, regardless of which computer 
he/she is using.
I personally prefer Advance Assigning to the user side.  
Yes, Advanced Assign.  You should choose this option if 
you want to use the Office Installation Custominzation 
Wizzard, which will allow you to give certain users 
certain applications ( Accounting gets Word, Excel and 
Outlook; Finance gets Word, Excel Access and Outlook and 
Sales gets Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook - for 
example ).  You create a "transformer" file ( aka .mst 
file ) to apply your wishes.
Ciao
Memmo

 \\servername\sharename\offxp.msi SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb
Ho diversi files .msi sui CD di installazione di Office ma a questo punto la
mia domanda č: posso comunque sfruttare l'Active Directory per il deploy del
Service Pack anche se non ho un Administrative Installation Point?
Grazie
Bye
John

 Point?
No, puoi aggiornare via AD solo installazioni che sono state eseguite via AD
stessa.
Massimo


John

 ma serve comunque una versione Entreprise di Office per sfruttare AD?
Mai saputo che esistessero versioni Enterprise... io so solo che quella che
ho funziona :-)
Massimo

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Non esiste virtualmente in commercio ma va richiesta a Microsoft
seguendo una politica di Volume Licensing. Trovi maggiori info a:
http://www.microsoft.com/Office/ORK/xp/JOURN/Q&A_0001.htm
Ciao
Memmo


Grazie
Bye
John