Office XP sp3 rollout

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I have taken over an account where Office XP was installed
from the CD to each of the client workstations. I want to
apply sp3, but hope to do it from a group policy. I have
never tried this, but when I go to setup the group policy
it asks for the .msi file for the package. But there is
no .msi among the files after extracting the service
pack. Do things have to be done a different way to roll
out a service pack.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

 

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In summary, you should use the .MSP file that comes with the administrative
download of SP3 to patch your central installation, then you redeploy the
whol application to update your clients. The whole procedure is described
here:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/updates/xp/oxpsp3a.htm

Regards

Niclas Lindblom

"Bob Showalter" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have taken over an account where Office XP was installed
> from the CD to each of the client workstations. I want to
> apply sp3, but hope to do it from a group policy. I have
> never tried this, but when I go to setup the group policy
> it asks for the .msi file for the package. But there is
> no .msi among the files after extracting the service
> pack. Do things have to be done a different way to roll
> out a service pack.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give.