Integrating Office 2007 SP1 into your Office installer

I'm currently looking at creating a Configuration Manager installation for Office 2007, ready to image our student PCs over summer. Since we created our Office 2007 installer Microsoft have released Office 2007 SP1, which obviously we want to install during the workstation imaging process.

MS haven't released a DVD/CD install disc yet which includes SP1, although I was pleased to learn a nifty little trick you can use to integrate the SP into your existing install files (slipstream).

Presuming you already have gone through the process of creating an Office 2007 auto installation set, you should have a folder structure something resembling drive:\Office2007\Updates The UPDATES folder is the crucial one.... any updates you stick in there will be applied at the time of install.

So...just download the stand-alone SP1 file office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe from MS...just google it. Then run it with the following switch;

office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:drive:\Office2007\Updates\

You should end up with around 8 new files in your updates folder, which represent the core of SP1. These will be applied during the Office 2007 installation. :)