Office 2010 Updates for Network Install

[harry]

Hi...

I'm trying to use WSUSOffline to download all the updates for Office 2010 so I can put the updates into the UPDATE folder on a network install. This way Office 2010 applies all the updates at the time it does the installation.

I've download WSUS Offline, ran the UpdateGenerator.exe, and clicked on the Office tab. I then selected English under the Office 2010 SP1 +Statics. Under options I selected the following:

- Clean up Download Directories
- Include Service Packs
- Verify Downloaded Updates
- Include C++ Runtime Libraries and .NET Frameworks

I also selected USB medium Copy Updates for selected products into directory and specified a path.

I now have a series of .CAB and .EXE updates in the \OFC\ENU and \OFC\GLB directories, as well as the \CPP folder and \DOTNET directories.

The files in the \OFC\ENU and \OFC\GLB seem to have both x86 and x64 patches. When examining similar CAB files, they even have the same MSP file name, so I can only assume that's the difference between them, x86 and x64. How do I know which ones are x86 or 32bit updates. We are running only Office 2010 32bit version.

[aker]

All Files including the passage "x86" are 32bit updates, the ones with "x64" are for 64bit office.
If you did not use the script "AddOffice2010x64Support.cmd" there should be no 64bit updates.

If you want to integrate the updtaes just unpack the cab files and put the msp files into the updtaes directory of the office setup cd. For the exe files just call one of them with the parameter "/?" then it should tell you how to extract the msp from the executable.

[FSGDAG]

Hi Aker...

Thanks for the response... Would you mind looking at this screen shot below...

The screen shot shows three similar OfficeUpdates that were downloaded using WSUSOffline. Inside each of those three CAB files, they all contain the same MSP file name. Am I wrong in assuming that one is a 32bit and one is a 64bit update? What is the difference between them and how do I know which of the three to use? According to the Office 2010 TechNet blog I read, all Office updates have unique update names so that no two updates will contain the same file name.

[aker]

That should be the dfferent files for office 2003, 2007 and 2010.
Because MS does not make any differences between them, the only way to see which update is for which office, you have to open the msp-file and look inside. If there is a folder with "11.x" the update is for office 2003; "12.x" ist for 2007 and "14.x" means office 2010.