Howdy folks,
Tryin to keep things going around here….need some advice.
I have Win2003 servers and Active Directory…..single domain….approx. 100 client computers…..one location.
Am upgrading all computers from Office XP to Office 2003.
My project:
Install Office 2003 and all updates remotely without going to each machine.
My progress:
I tried the method of creating a network share with a compressed CD image, and chaining the updates with OHotFix.exe, but the installation and updates both fail if the users are not administrators of their local machine.
The other method I tried was to use group policy and assign the installation.
This worked well, but does not support chaining….so I cannot run the updates…..and once again, I can’t just supply a path for users to run the updates, because they aren’t local admins.
Now for the questions:
1. Can you send out updates for office with group policy?
2. Are there any other methods out there that you all use/know to get this done fairly easily?
3. What about WSUS? Would it be a good solution? I have no experience with it.
I have read through and searched a lot of material, but haven’t found the answers I’m looking for.
Any ideas? How do you all do it?
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