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I have been given a Microsoft hotfix that I need to deploy over the entire domain. I want to use GPO as the users do not have admin rights and Office was not deployed from an administrative point. It was deployed randomly on an individual basis. I tried converting the exe into an msi but when I ran the msi it just extracted the MSP file.

Is there an easy was I can deploy the MSP or EXE across various version of Office 2003 via a GPO?

I took a copy of Pro11.msi and tried running MSIexec.exe /a "[outlook.msi path]" /P "[Outlook.exe path]" and the same with the MSP file. Both times I got an error saying "The installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer Package".

Another solution maybe if it is possible to deploy via WSUS?

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Yes, actually. If you don't have WSUS/SCCM/etc solution you use to push out patches, the easiest solution is a GPO with a startup script.

For example, what I've done below for a different hotfix. (This is my batch file)

echo off

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\HotFix\KB968730" if %errorlevel%==1 (goto Install) else (goto End)

REM If errorlevel returns a value of 1, it means the key is not present, thus the hotfix is not installed. So install it.

:Install

\\[Sysvol on my domain]\scripts\Scriptfiles\WindowsXP-KB968730-x86-ENU.exe /quiet

REM If errorlevel returns a value other than 1, the key is present, and the hotfix is already installed, or something odd's going on. No installation.

:End

Then I put that batchfile script up in SYSVOL where all domain computers and users can get at, and created a GPO to run that at startup. [Startup scripts start in SYSTEM context, so user rights don't matter.] Linked the GPO appropriately, wait, and the job's done next time the users reboot.

Startup scripts are configured under Computer -> Policies -> Windows Settings -> Scripts -> Startup, through Group Policy Management Editor, of course.

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