Hello I have 2 questions.

1. I bought Office 2007 Enterprise and would like to know what files I need. Like with windows you can copy the CAB files to the local machine so that the Windows CD is no longer needed when updating the Operating system. Well I would like to do something like this with the Office 2007. I am creating an image for several hundred machines and would like to know which CAB files or other files from the office 2007 CD I would need to copy on the local machine.

2. Is there a registry setting i need to set for the office CAB files? Like for windows I had to change the source path string from D:\I386 to C:\I386. Does anyone know what string in the registry i would need to adjust for office to look for the CAB files I copy to the local machine?

BTW I am using Windows XP Pro

Thanks in advance.

Why not just create a folder called Office07 and copy the contents of the CD there? Then create an MSI file to run whatever custom install you want.

Do you have a server? If so, place the files in a folder on the server, then run the install using that install point.

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Hi Jen, thanks for your responce.

The server bit wont work too well as the bandwidth between each of our branches is very slow and the servers have very limited space.

And i dont want to copy the entire CD on to the drive. Because someone could just burn the folder on to a CD and go in the registry and obtain the product key from the registry.

Our users arent that intelligent but you never know.

What if I were to copy just the CAB files on the local machine from the Office CD, would that be all i need or would i also need the msi files?

Actually i found a bit of text at Microsoft that says it copies all the source files to the drive its installed on in a hidden folder.

Here is the link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924...

This is what i was wondering about. But its exactly what i was looking for.

Thanks Jen for the responce though.