Re: Software distribution question
From: Andrew Mitchell (amitchell_at_removecasey.vic.gov.au)
Date: 09/29/04
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 03:23:57 -0700
"Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]" <cwshultz@mvps.org> said
> Andrew,
>
> This is something that I probably should have known right off of the
> bat.
>
> Darren did some testing and determined that the 're-deploy' is not a
> 'remove and fresh install' but where the Installer does a special kind
> of install with the /vomus options and that these options replace most
> but not all of the package. So, this is why the 're-deploy' seemed to
> be quicker. It seemed to because it is quicker. Darren noticed that it
> took 12 minutes to deploy Office XP via GPO but that it took only eight
> minutes to do the 're-deploy' - after updating the AIP to SP3.
>
Great news. Just had a look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
scid=kb;EN-US;227091 and it looks like the /vomus option causes updated or
missing files to be replaced, user and computer registry entries to be
inserted and shortcuts to be recreated. Based on that, the 9meg update should
be not much more than that. Sounds like a winner.
> If you have ever worked in an environment where there are still legacy
> clients ( WIN9x and WINNT ) that can not make use of GPOs then you have
> possibly used an AIP to install Office 2000 or Office XP. When you
> patch the AIP you then need to go to each client and run 'start
> msiexec.exe /i \\blahblahblah REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus or =vomu
> /qb.
>
No worries with that here (finally). It's all Win2k or WinXP desktops.
Thanks again.
Andy.
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