How to apply an update to an Office XP administrative installation point by using IntelliMirror (307791)


The information in this article applies to:

  • the operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000
  • Microsoft Office XP Professional
  • Microsoft Office XP Small Business
  • Microsoft Office XP Standard
  • Microsoft Office XP Students and Teachers
  • Microsoft Office XP Developer
  • Microsoft Access 2002
  • Microsoft Excel 2002
  • Microsoft FrontPage 2002
  • Microsoft Outlook 2002
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
  • Microsoft Word 2002
This article was previously published under Q307791

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SUMMARY

When Microsoft Office issues a service release, two separate versions of the update are made available. One is for updating administrative installation points, and the other is for updating stand-alone computers. The following procedures describe how to apply an update to an administrative installation point by using IntelliMirror in Microsoft Windows 2000.

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Deploy an Administrative Update

When you deploy an administrative update, Microsoft Windows Installer performs a re-cache and reinstallation of the original version of Office. This process replaces the previously cached MSI file and overwrites any old files with the newer versions. By installing complete files, rather than patched files, the administrative update can correctly replace any files on the server that have been modified with Microsoft quick fix engineering (QFE) updates.

All updates are designed to make sure that your features retain their existing installation states, and that support files, such as transforms, continue to work as they did before. You can continue to use existing transforms (MST files) on an updated administrative image to reproduce the same customizations for new client installations.

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Install an Administrative Update with IntelliMirror

If your administrative installation point and all of your client computers are running Microsoft Windows 2000, you can use IntelliMirror technology to manage the installation of an administrative update.

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Deploy a QFE Fix or Update

  1. Apply the updates (MSP files) to the original Office administrative installation point. You must run the command line separately for each MSP file that you apply to the administrative installation point; you cannot reference multiple MSP files on the same command line.
  2. Open the Software Installation snap-in within the Group Policy Object (GPO) that you are using to manage the existing Office installation.
  3. In the details pane, right-click the Office package, point to All Tasks, and then click Redeploy application. The next time that the Group Policy Object is applied to the designated users or computers, the updated files are copied to the users' computers.

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You can redeploy a package only if it is being managed by Group Policy; that is, only if you originally installed it by using IntelliMirror software installation and maintenance, or only if you brought the package into a managed state under Windows 2000.

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