The Office XP Service Pack 2 for Multilingual User Interface Pack update ensures that Microsoft® Office XP SP2 performs with complete functionality when you use an Office XP Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI Pack).

This update works only with MUI Packs, which are applied to an English version of Microsoft® Office XP. The languages supported in this release are Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Greek, Spanish, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

To ensure complete functionality from the Office XP SP2 MUI Pack update, you will need to deploy the following components:

• Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)
• Office XP Service Pack 1 for Multilingual User Interface Pack (must be installed prior to installing Office XP SP2 for Multilingual User Interface Pack)
• Microsoft Office XP SP2 Multilingual User Interface Pack (this download)

To ensure the integrity of your Microsoft Office installation, Windows Installer might require access to your installation source — for instance, the Office CD or the network installation location — before applying any product updates. This is a technical requirement of Windows Installer-based software patching and is not intended to be an anti-piracy measure. For more information, please see the topic Windows Installer Must Have Original Source Files When You Apply a Patch in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

If you are running Microsoft Windows® 2000, installing the Office XP SP2 Multilingual User Interface Pack update may require a reboot of your machine. This reboot may be prevented by upgrading to Windows Installer 2.0. For more information, see Windows Installer 2.0 Redistributable for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000.

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Toolbox   The Office XP SP2 Multilingual User Interface Pack update consists of 33 Windows Installer patch files (MSP format), one for each MUI Pack supported by the update. The MSP files are packaged in a self-extracting executable (Lpksp2a.exe). You can find this downloadable file on the Office XP Resource Kit Downloads page.

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Strategies for updating your Office XP installations

The administrative update files for the Office XP SP2 for Multilingual User Interface Pack update are Microsoft Windows Installer patches (MSP files) that you apply to your administrative share by using a command line with specific parameters. The following table lists the MSP files included in the Office XP SP2 MUI Pack update.

The recommended method for distributing the MUI Pack update is to first update your administrative installation point, and then recache and reinstall Office on your users' computers to apply the changes. This is the standard update procedure presented for all previous Office XP updates and is the most effective way to distribute software in a security-enhanced environment. Details on using this method are covered below in the section "Applying the Office XP SP2 MUI Pack update to an administrative installation point."

An alternative to the administrative update strategy is to apply the binary (client) version of the update directly to users' computers within your organization. This approach may be useful if your organization has 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.

A third option is to apply the full-file updates directly to client computers. This method is an efficient way to ensure that all users have the most current version of the software when you do not know which updates users have applied. In addition, users can apply a full-file patch even if they do not have access the source. However, these clients remain out of sync with the updated source until they reinstall Office.

Details on this strategy, and a more complete comparison of the three update methods, can be found in the article Strategies for Updating Office 2000 Installations.

Applying the Office XP SP2 MUI Pack update to an administrative installation point

The full-file administrative update files for Office XP SP2 Multilingual User Interface Pack are Microsoft Windows Installer patches (MSP files) that you apply to your administrative share by using a command line with specific parameters.

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 Note    For best results, the update should be applied from the computer that contains the administrative installation point. Make sure the files on the administrative installation point are not in use when you apply the update. Copy the updated administrative installation image to all installation points after you back up any custom transform, Setup.ini, or other custom files.

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To apply the Office XP SP2 Multilingual User Interface Pack update to an administrative installation point

1. Download Lpksp2a.exe and double-click the file name to extract the MSP files.
2. Connect to the administrative installation point.

   Note that you must have write access to the administrative installation point on the server and the appropriate privileges to carry out the task.

3. On the Start menu, click Run and then type the command line for Windows Installer with the appropriate options for Office XP SP2 Multilingual User Interface Pack. Use the following syntax:

   [start] msiexec /p [path\name of update MSP file] 
   /a [path\name of MSI file]
   SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb /L*v [path\name of log file]
   

You must run the command line separately for each MSP file that you apply to the administrative installation point — you cannot reference multiple MSP files on the same command line. The following table describes the command-line options.

Updating client computers from an administrative installation point

After you update your administrative installation point, you must recache and reinstall the Office XP SP2 Multilingual User Interface Pack update on client computers that use the administrative image. Any new client installations from the administrative installation image will automatically include the Office XP SP2 Multilingual User Interface Pack update.

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 Note    If you originally installed Office XP on a client computer from an administrative installation point, you must follow the recache and repair procedure described above to update that client. If you update the client directly by using the end-user patch from the Office Update Web site, the client and administrative images become out-of-sync, which may cause future updates to fail.

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To update an existing client installation from an administrative installation point, run the following command line on the client computer:

start msiexec /i [path to updated .msi file on the admin image]
REINSTALL=[list of features] 
REINSTALLMODE=vomu /qb

You can run this command line by creating a logon script, distributing it as a batch file, deploying it by using Systems Management Server, or using other software installation tools. The following table describes the command-line options.

For the Office XP SP2 for MUI Pack update, the value for [list of features] is as follows (by languages):

Arabic, Czech, Greek, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian

NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,OutlookMAPICONTAB2,
OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,OutlookMessaging,
PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary

Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Thai

NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,OutlookMAPICONTAB2,
OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,OutlookMessaging

Chinese (Simplified)

NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,OutlookMAPICONTAB2,
OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,OutlookMessaging,
PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary

Chinese (Traditional)

EquationEditorFiles,NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,
OutlookMAPICONTAB2,OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,
OutlookMessaging,PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary,
SpellingAndGrammarFiles_1028,VBAHelpFiles,WordWizardsFiles

Danish

NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,OutlookMAPICONTAB2,
OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,
OutlookMessaging,ProductFiles,PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary

Dutch

NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,OutlookMAPICONTAB2,
OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,OutlookMessaging,
PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary,SpellingAndGrammarFiles_1043

French

EXCELFiles,NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,
OutlookMAPICONTAB2,OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,
OutlookMessaging,PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary,
SpellingAndGrammarFiles_1036,ThesaurusFiles_1036,WORDFiles

German

NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,OutlookMAPICONTAB2,
OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,OutlookMessaging,
ProductFiles,PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary,SpellingAndGrammarFiles_1031

Hebrew

NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,OutlookMAPICONTAB2,
OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,
OutlookMessaging,PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary,PublisherFontSchemes

Italian

EXCELFiles,NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,
OutlookMAPICONTAB2,OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,
OutlookMessaging,PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary,
SpellingAndGrammarFiles_1040

Japanese

IMEMain,NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,
OutlookMAPICONTAB2,OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,
OutlookMessaging,PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary,WORDFiles

Korean

IMEMain,NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,
OutlookMAPICONTAB2,OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,
OutlookMessaging,ProofingToolsFiles_1042,PubCoreWizardFiles,
PubPrimary,SpellingAndGrammarFiles_1042

Polish

NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,OutlookMAPICONTAB2,
OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,OutlookMessaging,
PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary,SpellingAndGrammarFiles_1045

Portuguese (Brazil)

NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,OutlookMAPICONTAB2,
OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,OutlookMessaging,
PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary,SpellingAndGrammarFiles_1046

Portuguese (Portugal)

NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,OutlookMAPICONTAB2,
OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,OutlookMessaging,
PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary,SpellingAndGrammarFiles_2070

Spanish

ACCESSFiles,NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,
OutlookMAPICONTAB2,OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,
OutlookMessaging,PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary

Swedish

NotInstalled,OUTLOOKFiles,OutlookMAPI2,OutlookMAPICONTAB2,
OutlookMAPIEMS2,OutlookMAPILDAP2,OutlookMAPIPST2,
OutlookMessaging,PubCoreWizardFiles,PubPrimary,
SpellingAndGrammarFiles_1053

Optionally, you can substitute the parameter REINSTALL=ALL to reinstall all Office XP components on the client computer.

Applying the Office XP SP2 MUI Pack update under Windows 2000 or Windows XP

If your administrative installation point and all of your client computers are running Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you can use IntelliMirror® technology to manage the installation of the update.

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 Note    Be sure to test all software updates in a controlled setting before modifying your administrative installation point or deploying the new version throughout your organization.

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To deploy a QFE fix or update under Windows 2000 or Windows XP

1. Apply the update (MSP file) to the original Office administrative installation point.

   You will need to run the command line separately if you apply more than one MSP file to the administrative installation point — you cannot reference multiple MSP files on the same command line.

2. Open the Software Installation snap-in within the Group Policy Object (GPO) that you are using to manage the existing Office installation.
3. In the details pane, right-click the Office package, point to All Tasks, and then click Redeploy application.

   The next time the Group Policy is applied to the designated users or computers, the updated files are copied to their computers.

Note that you can redeploy a package only if it is being managed by Group Policy — that is, only if you originally installed it by using IntelliMirror software installation and maintenance, or if you brought it into a managed state under Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

Related links

For more information on Office XP SP2, see Description of the Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

For general information on applying an administrative update, see Deploying Product Updates from an Administrative Installation Point in the Office XP Resource Kit.