Customizing Installation

In Chapter 7, you learned the difference between an Office 2003 Editions administrative installation and compressed CD image. Only by deploying Office 2003 via compressed CD images can you take advantage of local installation sources, which ensures that users always have access to the Office 2003 Editions source files because Office 2003 Setup copies them to the local computer.

Compressed CD Images

After you copy the contents of the Office 2003 Editions CD to a network share, the process of customizing a CD image is similar to the process of customizing an administrative installation point. You can edit the Setup.ini file and use the Custom Installation Wizard to create a transform (.mst file) as long as you point to the ...

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