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CTX066331 - Installing Microsoft Office XP using Citrix Installation Manager

This document was published at: http://support.citrix.com/kb/entry.jspa?externalID=CTX066331

Document ID: CTX066331, Created on: Jun 29, 2001, Updated: Apr 23, 2003

Products: Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 for Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft Office XP uses an administrative install.

Compatibility Scripts

No compatibility script is required.

Compatibility Issues

Citrix recommends that Microsoft Office XP be installed from a network share point using the administrative install. During an administrative install, Setup copies the files from the Office XP CD to the administrative installation point, extracts the compressed cabinet (CAB) files, and creates a hierarchy of folders in the root folder of the share. The System Files Update is automatically included during an administrative installation.

There are two major steps to installing Microsoft Office XP using Citrix Installation Manager:

• Creating an administrative installation point

• Using the Citrix Management Console to deploy the application

Creating an Administrative Install

1. Create a share on a network server for the administrative installation point. The network share must have at least 650MB of available hard-disk space.

2. On a computer that has write access to the share, connect to the server share.

3. On the Start menu, click Run, and then click Browse.

4. On the Office XP CD, double-click Setup.exe and add /a to the command line.

5. Enter the organization name that you want to define for all users who install Office from this administrative installation point.

6. Enter the server and share you created as the installation location.

7. Enter the 25-character Volume License Product Key and click Next. Users who install Office XP from this administrative installation point are not prompted to enter a product key when they install Office XP or start an Office XP application for the first time, nor are they required to activate the product.

8. Accept the end-user license agreement and click Install.

By accepting the agreement, you are accepting on behalf of all users who install Office from this administrative installation point. See the Microsoft XP Office Resource Kit (ORK) to obtain complete instructions about creating an administrative installation point.

Setup also modifies the Windows Installer package for Office, identifying it as an administrative installation package and setting the ProductID and COMPANYNAME properties accordingly. After you create the administrative installation point, you make the share available to users by providing them with read access.

Using Citrix Installation Manager to Publish the Application Throughout the Farm

1. When the administrative installation point is created, Citrix administrators add the package to the Citrix Management Console by pointing to the .MSI file (that is, Proplus.msi) on the administrative installation point.

2. When the package is added to the Citrix Management Console, the package can be scheduled for installation across the farm to the desired MetaFrame servers