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In this tutorial I’ll be teaching you how to add Office SP1 into your existing MS Office and how to make add your details and product key into it so that typing it at install time is not necessary.

First of all you will be needing a copy of Office 2007 and the service pack 1 for Office 2007.

1. Office 2007 – http://trial.trymicrosoftoffice.com/wwtrial/default.aspx?culture=en-GB (60 day trial version; you will need to purchase to get a valid key)

2. Office 2007 Service Pack 1

Adding Service Pack 1 into Office 2007

1. Create a temp folder and copy all the content of Office 2007 into it

2. Now we need to add the service pack. This is easy all you need to do is add the extracted .MSP files into the folder named “Updates” in the office 2007 folder. To extract the files inside office sp1 (office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe) use one the following commands

office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:C:\Office07\Updates

or

office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract

in my case these would be

E:\>office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:E:\Office07\Updates

E:\>office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract

the first command will extract the files to the given path while the second one will prompt you for the path. And in both cases you will get a license agreement window, click i agree and press continue. Now the files will be extracted to where you have specified.

By using this method you can add any hotfix to your office 2007 copy.

3. Copy the extracted files into the “Updates” folder

Now SP1 or any other hotfix you’ve added will be installed automatically.

Customizing Office 2007 Installation

This will make your office installation user info and product key entering automated.

Edit the config.xml file in the folder called “Enterprise.WW”

Edit the config.xml according to the below given example.

PIDKEY XXXX values should be replaced with your product key and your user name and company name must be filled out. If its not applicable you can leave it blank.

e.g:<COMPANYNAME Value=” ” />

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<Configuration Product=”Enterprise”>
<Display Level=”full” CompletionNotice=”yes” SuppressModal=”yes” AcceptEula=”yes” />
<!–<Logging Type=”standard” Path=”%temp%” Template=”Microsoft Office Enterprise Setup(*).txt” /> –>
<PIDKEY Value=”XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX” />
<USERNAME Value=”Your Name” />
<COMPANYNAME Value=”Your Company Name” />
<INSTALLLOCATION Value=”%programfiles%\Microsoft Office” />
<!–<LIS CACHEACTION=”CacheOnly” /> –>
<SOURCELIST Value=”file://share/Microsoft/Office2007Enterprise” />
<DistributionPoint Location=”file://share/Microsoft/Office2007Enterprise” />
<!–<OptionState Id=”OptionID” State=”absent” Children=”force” /> –>
<Setting Id=”Reboot” Value=”IfNeeded” />
<!–<Command Path=”msiexec.exe” Args=”/i \\server\share\my.msi” QuietArg=”/q” ChainPosition=”after” Execute=”install” /> –>
</Configuration>

Now that everything is complete you need to create an iso or burn it to a disk. To create an ISO Image use Free ISO Creator, IMGBurn, MagicISO or Nero. To burn to a disk use Nero or IMGBurn or any other disk recording software you use.

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