Once the proper Microsoft SP1 Office 2010 ISO is available, which will hopefully be shortly, you can simply copy the files listed in my post 2 posts up, plus any relevant language and other files (if required) into the updates folder and everything will be done for you I guess something like you suggested can be done, but its really not necessary considering the release (hopefully) of a SP1 iso shortly
oh okay, i didn't know SP1 iso will be released. But it is official ? Because there weren't sp1 or sp2 clean iso for office 2003 & 2007.
Thats probably true, there may not be, in which case its quite silly on behalf of Microsoft not to! makes it more difficult for system admins etc if they have to install office, download the service pack etc! I wouldn't be surprised if most couldn't be bothered...
mass apply hotfixes - I think you only need to point DISM to the folder containing the CABs (expanded from .MSU). No need to build a long argument with /add-package to each individual CAB. If the folder has 100 CABs then you will see the DISM apply 1 of 100, 2 of 100, etc. eg. if d:\temp\cab has the 100 CABs DISM /image:image-path /add-package:\temp\cab it is also possible to manually build one huge DISM command to apply the LDRs eg. /add-package with fifty /packagePath:update-bf.mum on the command line, and again see the operation 1 of 50, 2 of 50, etc and success/failure messages a script would be better but the manual method to build this command does not need much thinking and is not too tedious
Guys, if I wanted to integrate the hotfixes into the existing latest SP1-u image *without* using rt7lite, is there any other way? Does the Update.cmd script do that job? Reason is, I want to recreate the image (because it seems rt7lite crunched some files it shouldn't) so now I don't want messing with the image/features/customisations whatsoever. I only want to integrate the hotfixes, without changing anything else.
For example you can use the GDism tool (posted on MDL) for Offline integration of hotfixes. The cmd included with the hotfixes is for live updating, not offline integration which is what you're wanting to do. I've been using the LastOS7 Builder at LastOS.org which allows you to integrate updates, add in other files, reg tweaks, themes, anything you want, and it has been working very well for me. I also replied to your RT7Lite post in this forum and listed the .inf that contains the settings as I used them on Rt7lite. It should not mess your stuff up unless you indiscriminately remove things.
Yes.First mount the image and then use burfadel's script (look last few pages of this thread on how to change the script). You can mount the image with ImageX or if you're not at home with commandline then use GimageX.
Thats one of the things I'll look at adding to the installer before posting V21 final. The image will already have to be mounted though. I had started a script that would automate everything, but I scrapped that idea Basically once I know the current test version works, I'll look at streamlining it a little further (and have a test 2), then add the function. If I did everything at once it would be harder to track down any issues
Thanx Trinket & tomorrow I want to keep the job real simple if possible, so I wouldn't want to use a tool that would mess in any way with the image - other than just allow me to integrate the hotfixes, which is the only thing I need. The closest thing to what I m looking for is burfadel's script - but in my case, is a bit too techie for me to follow and use properly. I mean I didn't run it but from the code I can see it will have too many prompts, asking user input - and in such cases the user must know what they are doing. I am not too confident about that at the moment. Is there any way to manually integrate the hotfixes (even 1 by 1) into the image? I.e. Mount using GimageX and use the cmd prompt to integrate each hotfix seperately? If that is to work and do the job properly, I d rather sacrifise the time and do it. All I want is a stable image. What I ve done so far is to spend a day installing 7, apps and things I need, configuring those - only to find out later that I m missing key windows components
I have a question, but it's off-topic ... so i will ask a way to fit the topic Since Windows 7 RTM is out, i have the same problem over and over again, i thought it will be fixed with SP1 and Post-SP1 Hotfixs, but no ... I have problem with *.exe files ... i explain myself : I can't deleted any *.exe files, i have to wait 30sec - several minutes in certains cases, depending on the file size, to be able to delete the file. If not i have an error telling me the file is in use and can't be deleted. This problem is sooooo annoying that, for example, i can't install steam : the update processus will abord because it can't delete the "old" steam.exe by the new one, etc ... this problem does 1000 others examples but i think you understand the point. It does this bug since the Windows 7 RTM Untouched, in real and virtual PC. It does it with the updated Post-SP1 version too ... BUT, with the same DVD, on some other PC, this bug isn't there ... for no reason I really don't undertand that ... so is there a fix, hotfix, patch, trick to fix that thing ? Don't know if you guys have seen what i mentioned, but it's really weird and annoying.