Creating an Administrative Installation Point for the Office MUI Pack

The first step to deploying a multilingual installation is to create an administrative installation point for the Microsoft Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI Pack). To do this, you run the MUI Pack Setup program (Muisetup.exe) in administrative mode to install the MUI Pack in a folder on a network server.

The MUI Pack consists of language files on multiple CDs. If you want to use languages on different CDs, you must run Muisetup.exe separately for each CD you need. You can add language files to an existing administrative installation point by specifying the same location each time.

The following procedure assumes that you are creating an administrative installation point on a computer using Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or later or Microsoft Windows XP or later.

To create an administrative installation point for the MUI Pack

1. Create a share on a network server for the administrative installation point.

   The folder must be at least one level below the top level: for example, \\server\share\office. Also, the share must be large enough to store the resources for the languages that you need. MUI Pack hard disk-space requirements are approximately 65 MB to 290 MB per MUI Pack.

2. On a computer running Windows 2000 or Windows XP, connect to the server share.

   You must have write access to the share on which you are creating the administrative installation point.

3. On the Start menu, click Run, and then click Browse to locate the MUI Pack CD. (Insert the MUI Pack CD with the language you want to install.)

4. On the MUI Pack CD, select Muisetup.exe and click Open.

5. On the command line, following Muisetup.exe, type /a and then click OK.

6. When prompted by Muisetup.exe, accept the end-user license agreement (EULA), and then click Next.

7. Enter the server and the share that you created and click Next.

8. On the Available Languages page, choose the languages you want to include on this installation point.

   Note that languages not available on the current CD will appear dimmed on this page. You can add languages from other CDs to the same administrative installation point by running Muisetup.exe /a with additional MUI Pack CDs and specifying the same network server location.

   Also note that MUI Packs that include only proofing tools do not appear here. For more information about installing proofing tools from these MUI Packs, see “Installing Proofing Tools” in Chapter 14, “Deploying Office 2003 Multilingual Resources.”

Resources and related information

More information about creating administrative installation points as part of an Office deployment is in the previous section “Creating an Administrative Installation Point for the Office MUI Pack.”

Another option for deploying Office products is to use local caching. To learn more about the benefits and drawbacks of using a local cache for Office deployment see “Taking Advantage of a Local Installation Source” in Chapter 3, “Preparing to Deploy Office 2003.”