Microsoft Office 2007 – Get more options for Office Customization Tool

Has some of you may know, the deployment of Office 2007 can be simplified with a tool called Office Customization Tool (OCT) and a Config.xml file.

This week I’m attending a 3 day Premier Workshop called “Deploying and Managing Microsoft Office 2007 in the Enterprise” where I got a good informatin about OCT that I haven’t realized.

This tool was updated in November of 2007 .
I always used the default tool version (that can be accessed through setup.exe /admin command-line).

This new version has some new option, and one of them it’s really handy, and it about don’t showing the annoying first-run dialog box everytime you open an Office application.

This new version it’s an upgrade for the existing one, and it’s applied like *.adm files for example. In this case, *.opa files.
Just copy the downloaded file to the correct directory and the next time you open OCT, the new options will be available

Please make notice that after upgrading OCT you need to recreate your *.msp files.

Download it at:
2007 Office system Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization Tool version 2.0

Microsoft Office 2007 unattended install prompts for product selection

I was creating a new MS Office 2007 unattended installation when I’ve been showed off with a prompt for selecting the product to install.

There was some options like:
- Microsoft Office Professional 2007
- Microsoft Office Professional 2007 – Portuguese Language Pack
- Microsoft Office Project 2007

This happened because Project 2007 installed first then Office 2007. So, for pass this through you need to specify the XML and admin file on Office 2007 silent install command line, for example:

C:\MSOffice2007\setup.exe /Config ProPlus.WW\config.xml /adminfile updates\setup.msp

You also need to make sure that in your config.xml file, the tag

<Configuration Product=”ProPlus”> it’s not commented like this <!–<Configuration Product=”ProPlus”> –>