HOW TO: Create an Administrative Installation Point for Deploying the Multilingual User Interface Pack with Office XP

Plug-in language capability in Microsoft Office XP is provided by the Office XP Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI Pack). Although the MUI Pack and Office XP are installed from different CD-ROMs, each can be deployed from the same administrative installation point or a different administrative installation point. This article describes how you can create an administrative installation point to deploy the Multilingual User Interface Pack with Office XP on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows 2000.

Create an Administrative Installation Point to Deploy the Multilingual User Interface Pack

You run the Multilingual User Interface Pack Setup program (Lpksetup.exe) in administrative mode to install the MUI Pack to an administrative installation point that is located on the server.

The Multilingual User Interface Pack consists of language files on multiple CD-ROMs. If you want to use languages that are on different CD-ROMs, you must run Lpksetup.exe separately for each CD-ROM that you need. You can add language files to an existing administrative installation point by specifying the same location each time.

The following procedure assumes that you create an administrative installation point on a computer that is running Windows 2000. Alternatively, you can create an administrative installation point on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 98, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me). However, the computer that you use to create the administrative image must have the correct code page (or pages) installed that corresponds to the MUI Pack that you are copying to the installation point. Otherwise, only the languages that are supported by the system will be copied. If you are creating an administrative image for multiple languages that use different code pages, use a Windows NT computer or a Windows 2000 computer. (Windows 98 and Windows Me support only one code page at a time.)

To create the administrative installation point:

1. Create a share on a network server for the administrative installation point. The folder must be at least one level below the top level, for example, \\server\share\office. Also, the share must be large enough to store the resources for the languages that you need. Multilingual User Interface Pack disk-space requirements are approximately 150 megabytes (MB) to 350 MB per MUI Pack.
2. On a computer that is running Windows 2000, with write access to the share, connect to the server share.
3. Click Start, click Run, and then click Browse to locate the Multilingual User Interface Pack CD-ROM.
4. On the Multilingual User Interface Pack CD-ROM, select Lpksetup.exe and then click Open. On the command line, after Lpksetup.exe, type /a and then click OK.
5. When you are prompted by Lpksetup.exe, type the organization name that you want to define for all users who install the Multilingual User Interface Pack from the administrative installation point, and then click Next.
6. Type the server and share that you created, and then click Next.
   
   NOTE: If you want to install only the System Files Update files for the languages that are available on this CD-ROM, select the check box before you click Next.
7. On the Available Languages page, select the languages that you want to include on this installation point.

Troubleshooting

System Files Update files are automatically copied to the installation point with the MUI Pack files. However, if you choose to create an installation point for your MUI Pack files that is separate from Office, you must manually copy the System Files Update files for the additional languages to your Office installation point to ensure that the client computer receives the System Files Update files that match the language of the operating system.