[Release] Office Integrator v0.6

[Siginet]

Office Integrator v0.6
Office integrator will allow you to slipstream all of the Office Hotfixes into your install disk and create an admin install for you. It will read the mysql database of http://SiginetSoftware.com to get any registry settings needed for the hotfixes.


Ever since I wrote the RVM Integrator I have had a ton of people ask me to make an Office SlipStreamer. So I have decided to create one. What it basically does is automate the slipstreaming of ServicePacks and Hotfixes into your Office Install disks.

The only reason I never actually made this simple tool is for the fact that microsoft has been pretty buggy at making their hotfixes for office. One hotfix you have to manually use a tool called orca to fix an error they put in it and also Microsoft Update was made in a way that is not compatable with detecting slipstreamed hotfixes.

You can download v0.6 Beta in this thread now.

You need to download the hotfixes from microsoft one at a time.
Or you can get an Office "HotPack" from www.SiginetSoftware.com. Hotpacks are a package of all needed hotfixes wrapped into one archive.

*Note* You should be connected to the internet while integrating because the Office integrator will check the mysql database on siginetsoftware.com for information needed to compile the reg file you can use so that microsoft update does not complain.

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1. Open the Office Integrator and choose your office install setup.exe (Source). This is optional... you only need to select your office setup.exe if you are using a fresh office source and it is not allready an admin source. If you have allready created an admin source then you can skip the first box and move on to the next step.

2. Now you can point to the second input box and choose your destination. If you allready have made an admin install of office 2003 using the /a switch then you can point to that admin install and the Office Integrator will recognize it as the destination. Your office admin install will then have the choosen hotfixes slipstreamed to it once the integration is started.

3. The third box you can select a servicepack to slipstream.

4. In the fourth inputbox you can choose the hotfix files or the new Office "HotPack" you want to slipstream. You can hold the CTRL button while selecting hotfixes/hotpacks to select more than one.

5. Now just click on "Integrate" and sit back and wait until it finishes.

... After each hotfix is slipstreamed the Office Integrator will read the DataBase file that was downloaded from http://SiginetSoftware.com, when you first opened OfficeIntegrator.exe, to grab the registry information for the hotfix you integrated. It has been verified to work with all of the hotfixes that are currently in the database.

If you integrate a hotfix that is not in the database please post any registry info here that should be added to our database.

This software is in beta so there may be issues. But it has been tested and does do the job so far. I need help from the users to build the database and make the program even more efficient.

Thanks to Viva for all of his help with this project as well!

Changes:
v0.6
1. Fixed ServicePack Slipstream bug. The OWC11*.msp file was not getting slipstreamed. (Thanks Wimb for pointing it out)
2. Fixed a typo in the code for SETUP_OI.EXE
3. FILES\SETUP\KB_KEYS.REG is now renamed to FILES\SETUP\KB_KEYS.OI because it is no longer a reg file. It just holds the reg info needed for SETUP_OI.EXE to use to add the entries to the registry.
4. SETUP_OI.EXE now finds the Office 2003 Language after installation and uses that info to create the correct registry keys that are placed into the registry.

v0.5
1. The database is downloaded to the hard drive upon opening OfficeIntegrator.exe now.
2. It automatically checks the OS Lang to get the key info for each registry entry.
3. It now places the KB_KEYS.REG file inside FILES\SETUP so that it doesn't reside at the root.
4. It creates a new SETUP_OI.EXE that will be used instead of the original setup.exe.
5. The new SETUP_OI.EXE will run the original setup.exe and it will pass any parameters as well. It will install KB_KEYS.REG and it will create the AllPatches reg entry as each entry is installed. It will not overwrite any AllPatches entries. It specifically adds new entries to the list.
I've added more to the log file so that it will help better when trying to debug any errors.

v0.4
1. Fixed numerous small bugs.
2. Fixed compatability for the entire Office 2003 Suite.
3. Added better logging.
4. Added a donate option upon finishing an integration. You can select "Yes" to be taken to a place to donate or "No" if you wish not too. Hint Hint...

v0.3
1. Fixed ServicePack slipstreaming bug.
2. Changed the way the database is read so that it is much more suffecient.
3. Now the Office Integrator will create a Log file named OfficeIntegrator.log in it's executable directory which will log important info in it.
4. Added support for the brand new Office "HotPacks".
5. Many new KB entries have been added to the database (Mainly for english and dutch registry entries).

v0.2:
1. In this version I pretty much re-wrote a lot of the coding structure. The database is read in a different way now which should allow for more expandability. I still have to add a lot of the reg entries to the database. And a lot of the reg entries that were submitted need to be placed into the database again. I put a bunch of them in... but I still have to get more of them inputed.
2. Now you can slipstream ServicePacks as well.
3. The Office Integrator will detect your Office source as well now.
4. You can use the integrator on the entire office suite now. Like OneNote, FrontPage... and so on. (Allthough certain hotfixes may need to be added to the database as well.)
5. Needed dll files for the online database are now compiled inside of the exe... so there is no longer a need to install them seperatly.

[ViVa]

Outch... ops: sorry Sigi, didn't mean to steal/continue your ideas, I didn't see this note.

[Siginet]

No way viva. We just both started on the project around the same time. I'm actually glad you were working on one. Now we can put our heads together and make this project even better.

When this project is released I'll make you a mod of it's forum and we'll bring it to life together.

It really shouldn't be a difficult tool to make.

[ViVa]

It'll be great, and time saving.

[ricktendo64]

Good one Sigi and Viva, cant wait for the final...

[Replika]

Ever since I wrote the RVM Integrator I have had a ton of people ask me to make an Office SlipStreamer. So I have decided to create one. What it basically does is automate the slipstreaming of ServicePacks and Hotfixes into your Office Install disks.

Great. That is i'm waiting for.
And could you please make Visual Studio Slipstreamer?

Heath Stewart on his blog made a how to slipstream Visual Studio 2005 SP1.
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive...ce-pack-1.aspx
But after slipstreaming, the installer expands to 3.0GB (from ~1.5GB)
I'm only a beginner and can not understand what Heath Stewart's comments to compress it myself.
You do re-CAB the installer in RVM Integrator, don't you? Please make the soft like that .
Thank you.

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Replika

[Siginet]

I am going to do my best. Office and Windows are completley different on how they are packaged. When the office integrator is first released it will only slipstream the hotfixes... but there are plans for me to try to make an option to direct integrate them as well. Which will save hundreds of megabytes.

[arabianhorse]

thanks it`s good topic
Best Regards

[ProfessorCPU]

I finally got a release together for everybody.

[BrainDedd]

I can only download 0.1? Or is 0.1 = 0.4?