The Service Pack 2 (Sp2) of Microsoft office 2007 is out and available for download. Many would be interested to know as how can one integrate or slipstream Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) in the installation source.
Create a network installation source
Insert the Office 2007 installation CD / DVD into your optical (CD / DVD) drive.
Copy all content of the CD to a folder under your hard drive, for example in my case its “F:\O_2007”
Obtain the Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Download the Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2
Extract the Service Pack
Create a folder “SP2” under the F drive (in your case create where you have the Office 2007 Service Pack two)
Open up the command prompt, and navigate to location F:\. Once there, run command office2007sp2-kb953195-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:F:\SP2\
It should through up the EULA, you are in need to accept it to proceed to the extraction stage.
Once finished, you may find bunch of .MSP files under SP2 folder / directory.
Integrate / Slipstream
Now please copy all files of the SP2 folder to updates (F:/O_2007/updates) folder under the F:/O_2007 directory, where you have copied all files of the installation CD / DVD.
That’s it.. You may burn that back to any DVD or keep it any where in your HDD or network.. As now when you start the installation in a PC / System, Office 2007 installer will complete the installation at SP2 stage !!!
Infact any update which is placed under Updates folder of the installation source will be installed at the time of installation..
It was stated here that you need to insert the CD (which is SP1). The reason for this is to have a CD that is now integrated with SP2. CMIIW
omg tell me about it. i hate it with acrord32 v6, u cant just grab 6.0.0 install and install 6.0.6 (latest in 6-series) update, but need to push thru 6.0.1 6.0.2..-> ;S school case!
@Choto Cheeta
The comment about cumulative service packs is no longer always the case. For example Vista SP2 requires SP1 installed first.
I believe it is the case with Office 2007 so the above answer is partially correct.
So sorry it relates to Office not SharePoint. My apologies.
Has anyone been able to do this successfully?
I find it hard to believe it will work as you will need WSS SP2 installed? Or am I wrong in saying that?
Marginally..
It is true, that the process installs the update after the actual installation however compare to update released in exe format for previews version of office, these are in the new .MSP format..
So install time increases marginally, not like double or such…
Thanks…
Hey bro I need to ask after doing this, will installation time increase ? as it first install, then update. I did not integrated sp1 bcoz of this.
Will installation time increase ?
Welcome..
In case of Any Microsoft Service Pack till date, every one of them are cumulative. Meaning later version of Service Pack contains all updates / features / files of previous version of service packs…
So you are in no need of SP1 anymore if you have SP2 with your self..
Thanks..
thanks for the nice trick.
i want to ask you that dont we require both sp1 and sp2 to completely update office 2007.or is it like that sp2 contains all the updates and files of sp1 so there is no need for sp1 to be installed (before sp2) if we are installing sp2.
is this true for all the softwares which have sp1 and sp2.