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How to synchronize an Office XP client with the administrative installation point

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Article ID:313138
Last Review:December 4, 2007
Revision:1.4
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SUMMARY

This step-by-step article describes how to synchronize an Office XP client computer with the current administrative installation point. You must perform this process after you update the administrative installation point.

WARNING: After you install an update to your administrative installation point, any workstation that was originally installed from this administrative installation point will not use this administrative installation for actions such as repairing Office or adding new features, until you complete the steps in the "How to Update Your Workstations" section of this article.

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How to Update Your Workstations

To update each client computer, use one of the following methods.

Method 1

To synchronize the client installation, so that it acknowledges the updated administrative installation point, follow these steps on the client computer:
1.Click Start and then click Run.
2.In the Open box, type the following command
msiexec /i admin path\[*.msi] reinstall=all reinstallmode=vomus
where admin path is the path to your administrative installation point for Office XP (for example, C:\OfficeXP)

-and-

where [*.msi file] is the MSI database package for the Office XP product "ProPlus.msi", "Pro.msi", or "Std.msi" (type without quotation marks).

NOTE: For additional information about the command-line switches used with the Windows Installer tool, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
227091 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/227091/EN-US/) Command-Line Switches for the Windows Installer Tool

Method 2

To interactively update a workstation, run Setup.exe from the updated administrative installation of Office. If you want to run Setup in Quiet mode, use one of the following command-line switches: /q or /qn.

For example, the command line would be:
Setup.exe /q /L*V C:\update.txt
For additional information about the command-line switches that are used with Office XP Setup, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
283686 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283686/EN-US/) OFFXP: Setup Command-Line Switches for Office XP

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REFERENCES

For additional information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
301348 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301348/) How to install a public update to administrative installations of Office XP
307843 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307843/EN-US/) OFFXP: Overview of the Office XP Service Pack 1





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APPLIES TO
•Microsoft Office XP Professional Edition
•Microsoft Office XP Small Business Edition
•Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition
•Microsoft Office XP Standard Edition for Students and Teachers
•Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition
•Microsoft Access 2002 Standard Edition
•Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition
•Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Standard Edition
•Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition
•Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition
•Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition

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