Re-configure Office 2007 installation unattended: Advertised components --> Local
- by abstrask
On our Citrix farm, I just found out that some sub-components are "Installed on 1st Use" (Advertised), which does play well on terminal servers.
Not only that, but you also get a rather non-descriptive error message, when a document tried to use a component, which is "Installed on 1st Use" (described on Plan to deploy Office 2010 in a Remote Desktop Services environment):
Microsoft Office cannot run this add-in. An error occurred and this
feature is no longer functioning correctly. Please contact your system
administrator.
I have ~50 Citrix servers where I need to change the installation state of all Advertised components to Local, so I created an XML file like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Configuration Product="ProPlus">
<Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" />
<Logging Type="standard" Path="C:\InstallLogs" Template="MS Office 2007 Install on 1st Use(*).log" />
<Option Id="AccessWizards" State="Local" />
<Option Id="DeveloperWizards" State="Local" />
<Setting Id="Reboot" Value="NEVER" />
</Configuration>
I run it with a command like this (using the appropriate paths):
"[..]\setup.exe" /config ProPlus /config "[..]\Install1stUse-to-Forced.xml"
According to the log file, the syntax appears to be accepted and the config file parsed:
Parsing command line.
Config XML file specified: [..]\Install1stUse-to-Forced.xml
Modify requested for product: PROPLUS
Parsing config.xml at: [..]\Install1stUse-to-Forced.xml
Preferred product specified in config.xml to be: PROPLUS
But the "Final Option Tree" still reads:
Final Option Tree:
AlwaysInstalled:local
Gimme_OnDemandData:local
ProductFiles:local
VSCommonPIAHidden:local
dummy_MSCOMCTL_PIA:local
dummy_Office_PIA:local
ACCESSFiles:local
...
AccessWizards:advertised
DeveloperWizards:advertised
...
And the components remain "Advertised".
Just to see if the installation state is overridden in another XML file, I ran:
findstr /l /s /i "AccessWizards" *.xml
Against both my installation source and "%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller", but just found DefaultState to be "Local".
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
