EXE file and place it in the Updates folder. EXE format, an extra step is required before being able to proceed. Since the Office 2007 updates are delivered in the. Otherwise, the setup program will not recognize them and therefore it will not install them. In order to be able to process and recognize these updates, they must be in the. However there is one last bridge that needs to be crossed before applying these updates to our Office 2007 source. At the beginning of May 2009, Service Pack 2 was released, including most of the previously available patches and updates.

This will save us the time required to download them and manually install each and every one of them. As of the time of this article, there are over 300 MB of updates that need to be downloaded. This will enable us to get a fully updated (or almost fully updated, depending on the level of updates that you keep) version of Office 2007, and will rid us from the need to use Windows/Office Update for these downloads. With Office 2007, and new updates that the setup program finds in the Updates folder will automatically be installed during the product’s installation process. Unlike previous versions of Office, in Office 2007 Microsoft has made use of the Updates folder in the installation media. You can read my “ Office System (2003) SP3 Slipstreaming” and “ Windows Server 2003 SP Slipstreaming” articles for more information on that. Needless to say, this also works with the recently published Service Pack 2 (SP2).

This is called “Slipstreaming”, and it is available, with some modifications, to previous versions of Office and even to entire operating systems. I recently received a couple of emails asking me how to do a clean installation of Microsoft Office 2007 using an Office 2007 image along with SP1 at the same time.

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