Today I needed to help a client update Office Communicator 2007 R2 in preparation for their Lync migration. They had deployed Office Communicator via Group Policy using an MSI, I wanted to create an MSI that encompassed the latest Office Communicator MSP. These are the steps I performed:
I firstly Downloaded the latest communicator client update from: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/ee695846 At the time of writing this, the latest update was January 2012: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=21547
I created a working directory with both the MSI and MSP.
I then performed an admin install of my MSI using the command:
msiexec /a "PATH TO COMMUNICATOR.MSI" TARGETDIR="create a new folder called Admin within your working directory"
msiexec /a "PATH TO COMMUNICATOR.MSI" TARGETDIR="create a new folder called Admin within your working directory"
For me the command was:
msiexec /a "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\OCS2007r2\communicator.msi" TARGETDIR="C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\OCS2007r2\admin"
msiexec /a "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\OCS2007r2\communicator.msi" TARGETDIR="C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop\OCS2007r2\admin"
This creates an admin install of communicator to my working directory, you can see the files it created.
