Installing Office 2013 cab files - manually

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Hi guys,

It was suggested here to use FinalizationHook.cmd for installing exe files manually.

I was thinking if i could use the same approach to installing Office 2013 updates. My only problem is that the downloaded updates are actually cabs - how do you install Office 2013 cabs using this method? Dism does not work with them, neither other installers i tried. What would be a command for those? Or is there any other way to do this using WOU?

Many thanks
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[Dalai]

Dism does not work with them [...]

Yes, it works. It's what WSUS Offline does to install any .cab updates. See wsusoffline\client\cmd\InstallOSUpdate.cmd:

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if exist %SystemRoot%\Sysnative\Dism.exe (
  %SystemRoot%\Sysnative\Dism.exe /Online /Quiet /NoRestart /Add-Package /PackagePath:%1 /IgnoreCheck
) else (
  %SystemRoot%\System32\Dism.exe /Online /Quiet /NoRestart /Add-Package /PackagePath:%1 /IgnoreCheck
)

Please note that those updates (most likely) can't be applied to Click2Run Office editions. See this blog article on the differences.

Regards
Dalai

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