Micron
22-10-2006, 01:10 AM
Typically, the first step in a corporate deployment of the 2007 Microsoft Office system is to create a network installation point. To do this, you copy all the source files from your Office CD to a shared location on the network. Users run Setup from the network installation point, or you use the installation point as a starting place for a creating a hard-disk image or a custom CD or for distributing Office by using a deployment tool such as Microsoft Systems Management Server.
To create a network installation point
If you are deploying multiple language versions of Office, copy each language pack you want from the source media to the installation point, and when prompted to overwrite duplicate Setup files, click No.
In the 2007 Office release, core Setup files are shared among all Office products and language packs. Because these files are identical, there is no reason to overwrite the files. Additionally, by not overwriting Setup files, the network installation point remains online and available to users while you are adding files.
1. At an accessible location on the network, create a folder for the Office source files. For example:
\\server\share\Office12
2. Insert the Office CD into your CD drive.
3. In Windows Explorer, select all the files and folders on the CD, and then copy the entire CD contents to the folder on the network; this location becomes your network installation point.
The network installation point for Microsoft Office Professional 2007 requires approximately 500 MB of space. The installation point contains only one copy of the language-neutral core product, and each language that you add requires additional space only for the language-specific components.
For example, the U.S. English and the French versions of Office Professional 2007 require approximately 500 MB of space each on the network—a total of 1 GB. Because the language-neutral components are not duplicated, however, a network installation point that includes both languages requires only about 750 MB of space.
Note: Unlike in previous versions of Microsoft Office products, in the 2007 Office release you do not create an administrative installation point by running Setup with the /a command-line option in order to extract compressed source files. In the 2007 Office release, all installations occur from the compressed source.
To create a network installation point
If you are deploying multiple language versions of Office, copy each language pack you want from the source media to the installation point, and when prompted to overwrite duplicate Setup files, click No.
In the 2007 Office release, core Setup files are shared among all Office products and language packs. Because these files are identical, there is no reason to overwrite the files. Additionally, by not overwriting Setup files, the network installation point remains online and available to users while you are adding files.
1. At an accessible location on the network, create a folder for the Office source files. For example:
\\server\share\Office12
2. Insert the Office CD into your CD drive.
3. In Windows Explorer, select all the files and folders on the CD, and then copy the entire CD contents to the folder on the network; this location becomes your network installation point.
The network installation point for Microsoft Office Professional 2007 requires approximately 500 MB of space. The installation point contains only one copy of the language-neutral core product, and each language that you add requires additional space only for the language-specific components.
For example, the U.S. English and the French versions of Office Professional 2007 require approximately 500 MB of space each on the network—a total of 1 GB. Because the language-neutral components are not duplicated, however, a network installation point that includes both languages requires only about 750 MB of space.
Note: Unlike in previous versions of Microsoft Office products, in the 2007 Office release you do not create an administrative installation point by running Setup with the /a command-line option in order to extract compressed source files. In the 2007 Office release, all installations occur from the compressed source.