Sales Environment Guide

Benjamin Lavalley

Senior Sales Engineer

1-415-694-5700 x4417

Office 2007 Silent deployment with Kaseya

June 9th, 2008

Detail on using the Office Customization Wizard:

To start, setup a network share with MS Office 2007, then execute the Office setup.exe with the /admin switch:

You will now be prompted to create a customization file for Office 2007.

Press OK.

You will now see the options available in the Office Customization Tool.

The first option allows you to configure where Office is installed on the target machine and input the Organization Name:

The second option allows you to configure additional network shares for the Office files to be copied from. You may want to set this up if you have remote sites with specific file shares that are local to them:

Now input your licensing key and select the options to run a completely silent installation:

You have several options for varying levels of interactivity:

Completion notice—Select this check box if you want Setup to display a message to the user when installation is complete.

Suppress modal—Select this check box if you do not want Setup to display error messages and other dialog boxes that might interrupt the installation. If you set Display level to Full, error messages and other dialog boxes display regardless of the state of this check box.

No cancel—Select this check box if you want to disable the cancel button (the X in upper-right corner). This setting only applies when Display level is set to Full or Basic.

By default, we want to uninstall any previous version of Office automatically:

Save the configuration file in the ‘Updates’ subfolder of your Office share:

Modify config.xml in the Enterprise.WW directory to ensure the install is completely silent.

We will now need to create a script that runs the Office 2007 setup specifying the Kaseya.MSP file we just created with the command line “setup.exe /adminfile kaseya.msp”.

Click the option to create a new script:

If you wish to execute the installer from a file share on the network without writing the Office files to the target machine, you will create the following script. The credentials here need to exist on the system you want Kaseya to execute the Office installation from.

If you wish to have Kaseya write down the Office files to the target machine directly, you will need to create a different kind of script. Start off by placing the Office setup folder in the VSASharedFiles folder (I am remoted in to the Kaseya C: drive via FTP):

Now, start the application deployment wizard:

Select the first option to send the installer from the KServer and press Next.

Now select setup.exe from the drop down list of source files. Select ‘Other’ for type of installer and input /adminfile updates/Kaseya.msp for the arguments and press Next.

Finally, give the script a name:

Select the script and edit it. This is what you should see:

Modify Step 2 to write the Office directory to the target machine as well as Step 3 to execute setup.exe from the new office folder:

You are finished creating the script. Regardless of which one you decided to create, select the machine you would like to execute the silent Office deployment on. Click ‘Run Now’ to execute immediately:

The operation will be pending (shown in red) until it completes:

The office installation should complete in several minutes depending on the speed of the system you are executing it on. If you check task manager you should see msiexec.exe and setup.exe which will indicate the installer is running:

All done:

If you would like to create a report showing the success of the deployment in the Executive Summary, select the Executive Summary report:

Click ‘Change rows’ and add two lines like this:

Apply the changes, click ‘Save As’, and run the report:

You have tremendous amounts of flexibility when it comes to deploying software with Kaseya. For example, you could optionally prompt the user to allow the installation of Office with an “If” check, notify them when the installation is complete with ‘Send Message’, and have pre-installation checks to be sure a system meets the minimum requirements by creating custom Views to analyze the hardware of possible candidates for deployment.

Office 2007 Silent Install with Kaseya