Deploy Office with Multiple MUI Packs

The users in your organization might need to use multiple Microsoft Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface Packs in their daily work. In this scenario, you might choose to deploy more than one MUI Pack with your Microsoft Office deployment. The process for doing this is as straightforward as it is when you deploy one MUI Pack.

For example, suppose you want to install French and Polish language features on the user’s computer at the same time that you deploy Office. French language features are installed from one CD disk, and Polish language features from another CD.

The sequence of tasks in this situation is as follows:

1. Create an administrative installation point for the core Office product (English).

2. Use Muisetup.exe to create the French and Polish MUI Packs administrative image to the same administrative installation point.

3. Use the Custom Installation Wizard with the Office package (MSI file) to customize language settings for French and Polish, and then save the transform with a name (for example, OfficeFrPo.mst).

4. Edit the Setup.ini file to chain the French and Polish MUI Packs MSI files to the Office installation.

After you have created your administrative installation point for Office, add the MUI Pack files that you plan to deploy.

Note

For more information about creating an administrative installation point for Office, see “Creating an Administrative Installation Point” in Chapter 3, “Preparing to Deploy Office 2003.”

The following examples make use of the French and Polish MUI Packs, but the processes can be applied to any languages that you are deploying.

To add MUI Packs to an administrative installation point

1. Insert the CD that contains the French MUI Pack.

2. On the Start menu, click Run, and then click Browse to locate the MUI Pack CD.

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

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

5. Enter the server and the share for your Office administrative installation point and click Next.

   A share must be large enough to store the resources for the languages that you need, in addition to the Office 2003 files. Hard disk space requirements for the MUI Packs vary per MUI Pack language. For example, the German MUI Pack requires 231 megabytes (MB) of hard disk space. In addition, if users install from a compressed image and choose to keep the local installation source, the German MUI Pack requires an additional 91 MB of hard disk space for the local installation source. By contrast, the Chinese (Simplified) MUI Pack requires 578 MB of hard disk space plus an additional 320 MB for the local installation source.

6. On the Available Languages page, choose French and click Install.

   Note that languages that are not available on the current CD will appear dimmed on this page.

7. Insert the CD that contains the Polish MUI Pack.

8. Run Muisetup.exe with the /a option again.

9. On the Available Languages page, choose Polish and click Install.

Now customize your Office transform to include language settings for French and Polish.

To create an Office transform with language settings for French and Polish

1. Start the Custom Installation Wizard.

2. On the Open MSI File page, enter (or browse to) the MSI file name for your Office installation (for example, Pro11.msi) from the administrative installation point for Office:

   \\server1\share\office\Pro11.msi

3. On the Select the MST File to Save page, enter the name of the MST file you are creating, for example:

   \\server1\share\office\OfficeWithFrPo.mst

4. On the Change Office User Settings page, click Microsoft Office 2003 (User).

5. Navigate the tree under Language Settings, and set the language features you want for this deployment.

   For example, you might choose to enable editing for both languages. Open Enabled Languages, and click Show controls and enable editing for. In the languages shown in the right-hand pane, open French, click Apply changes, then click Check to turn setting on. Click OK. Follow the same steps for enabling Polish.

Now you chain the French and Polish MUI Packs to your Office installation. To chain packages, you customize the Office Setup.ini file by using a text editor, such as Notepad, to include the MSI files you want to install.

Note

For detailed information about chaining packages with Office, see “Deploying Office and Other Products Together” in Chapter 5, “Installing Office 2003.”

To chain the French and Polish MUI Packs with your Office deployment

1. Open the Office Setup settings file (Setup.ini) in a text editor, such as Notepad.

2. Create a section called [ChainedInstall_1], and in this section specify the name and path of the MUI Pack you want to chain.

   1036 is the LCID for French and 1045 is the LCID for Polish. So to add the French MUI Pack, you might enter:

   PATH=\\server1\share\office\1036\mui.msi

3. Create a section called [ChainedInstall_2], and in this section specify the name and path of the second MUI Pack you want to chain. For example, to add the Polish MUI Pack, you might enter:

   PATH=\\server1\share\office\1045\mui.msi

4. Specify the task type for this section:

   TASKTYPE=msi

5. Specify other options for this section, such as IgnoreReturnValue or Reboot.

6. Specify a unique display setting or MUI Pack transform in each section to apply to that MUI Pack installation by setting the Display or MST property. (You can, instead, specify these options on the command line.)

   For example, you can ensure that the MUI Pack installation installs quietly by setting the following:

   DISPLAY=None

7. Specify additional options in each section by using the Cmdline property. For example, set the NOFEATURESTATEMIGRATION property to True to cancel the custom action that matches installation states for MUI Pack feature states to corresponding Office feature installation states:

   CMDLINE=NOFEATURESTATEMIGRATION=TRUE

Using the above examples, the completed sections in the Setup.ini file look like this:

[ChainedInstall_1] PATH=\\server1\share\office\1036\mui.msi TASKTYPE=msi DISPLAY=None CMDLINE=NOFEATURESTATEMIGRATION=True [ChainedInstall_2] PATH=\\server1\share\office\1045\mui.msi TASKTYPE=msi DISPLAY=None CMDLINE=NOFEATURESTATEMIGRATION=True 

After completing the above procedures, you can provide a command line such as the following for your users to install Office with these MUI Packs. (In this example, the Office transform is specified in the Setup command line but you could instead include the transform in Setup.ini by using the MST option in the main section of the file—not in the chained installation sections.)

\\server1\share\office\setup.exe /qb  TRANSFORMS=\\server1\share\office\OfficeFrPo.mst

From a user’s perspective, installation works like this:

1. Office Setup installs Office, as specified in the OfficeFrPo.mst transform.

2. When Office installation is complete, Office Setup runs MUI Pack Setup to install the French MUI Pack, as specified in the Setup.ini file.

3. When the French MUI Pack installation is complete, Office Setup runs MUI Pack Setup to install the Polish MUI Pack, as specified in the Setup.ini file.

At the end of the process, the user has English Office installed with French and Polish language features enabled. By running the Microsoft Office Language Settings utility from the Start menu, users can switch the user interface and Help language of Office to English, French, or Polish.