The Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 provides the latest updates to the Microsoft® Office XP Input Method Editor. This update contains significant security enhancements, as well as stability and performance improvements.

Toolbox   The full-file version of Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 consists of one Windows Installer patch file (imeff.msp) packaged in a self-extracting executable. See the You can find this downloadable file on the Office XP Resource Kit Downloads page. page for more information.

Chinese Traditional - officexp-kb832670-fullfile-cht.exe

Chinese Simplified - officexp-kb832670-fullfile-chs.exe

Chinese Pan - officexp-kb832670-fullfile-zhh.exe

Korean - officexp-kb832670-fullfile-kor.exe

 Note    The full-file version of the Office XP Input Method Editor Update (not available as a full-file update for Japanese) installs successfully on Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Service Pack 3 (SP3) installations.

Office XP Input Method Editor Update for Japanese

No administrative version of the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 is available for Japanese. Users should apply the client (binary) version of the update available from the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670 article in the Microsoft Download Center. Administrators can copy the file to a common network share and have users apply the update from there. Or, they can distribute the file by using software distribution tools such as Systems Management Server or other means used by their organization.

Strategies for updating your Office XP Input Method Editor installations

Administrative updates provide full-file replacement of all files changed by a service pack or product update. They can be used in one of two ways:

• To update an administrative installation point.

  After the administrative image is patched, users recache and reinstall Office on their computers from that point. Users must be able to connect to the administrative image on the network.

• To update client computers directly.

  Because administrative updates install complete files, rather than patched files, the administrative update can correctly replace any files that have been modified with previous updates. Users can apply them even when they do not have access to an installation source.

   Note    In some cases, users applying a full-file patch might be prompted for the source. For example, if a user has a corrupt Office file and a new version of that file is not included in the update, then Office will prompt the user for the source. In Office 2000, unversioned files and multilingual files can also result in a source requirement.

Applying full-file patches to clients

The recommended method for distributing the administrative version of the Office XP Input Method Editor update is to apply it directly to client computers. This approach allows you to maintain an unmodified baseline administrative image and manage the patching process on the client side. In this scenario, client computers do not become unsynchronized with a patched administrative image, and tasks such as install on demand and detect and repair continue to work correctly regardless of which patches users have applied.

 Note   In Microsoft Office XP, only full-file updates released after Office XP Service Pack 2 (including Office XP SP2 itself) can be applied directly to client computers. Previous full-file updates were designed to update administrative images and fail when applied to client installations.

For more information about applying administrative patches directly to client computers, see Strategies for Updating Office 2000 Installations.

Patching an administrative installation point

If you support users in an environment where Office can be recached and reinstalled promptly each time the administrative installation point is patched, you may choose to apply the Office XP Input Method Editor update to the administrative image and then recache and reinstall Office on client computers. If you can impose a consistent update process throughout your organization, this method has the additional benefit of automatically giving new clients that install from the administrative image the updated version. However, if there is a delay in updating some clients, they become unsynchronized with the patched administrative image.

For detailed procedures on how to update an administrative installation point and then recache and reinstall Office on client computers, see Deploying Product Updates from an Administrative Installation Point.

Applying binary patches to clients

An alternative to using the administrative update is to apply the binary (client) version of the Office XP Input Method Editor update directly to users' computers within your organization. This approach may be useful if you have experienced synchronization problems between your administrative installation points and your client computers. Details on this strategy are covered in the topic Distributing Office 2000 Client Updates to Users. The client version of the Office XP Input Method Editor update is available from the Office Update Web site.

 Note    To install client update files, you must be running Windows Installer version 2.0 or later on your computers. Windows Installer 2.0 is included by default in Microsoft Windows® XP and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3. For organizations running a previous version of Windows, it is available as a separate download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Windows Installer 2.0 for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME

Windows Installer 2.0 for Windows NT 4.0 (SP-6) and Windows 2000

Files changed by the Office XP Input Method Editor update

The following table lists the files changed by the full-file Office XP Input Method Editor update. If you need to confirm whether a share has been updated, you can check the related file version number.

List of features updated by the Office XP Input Method Editor update

If you update your administrative installation point and recache and reinstall Office XP Input Method Editor on client computers, you run a command line that includes the REINSTALL=[list of features] property. This property specifies whether you want to reinstall specific features or reinstall all applications on the administrative image.

For the Office XP Input Method Editor update, the value for [list of features] is as follows:

IMEMain

Optionally, you can substitute the parameter REINSTALL=ALL to reinstall all Office components on the client computer. For detailed procedures on how to patch an administrative image and update client computers, see Deploying Product Updates from an Administrative Installation Point.

Related link

For an overview of Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB832670, see Office XP Input Method Editor Update: March 9, 2004 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.