Integrate / Slipstream Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
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..
saurabh on May 16th, 2009
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.