Deploy Office 2007 compatibility pack via GPO

After I wrote about the Office compatibility pack, a reader asked this question:

I just saw your post on the compatibility pack. This seems like an ideal thing we can use here, but I can’t seem to locate the msi file so I can push it through the domain

After doing some experimentation and using the sysinternals tool filemon...I discovered that it extracts the contents of the compatibility pack into this folder:



Then you can simply copy the entire contents of this folder, and put it on a public share.

Then deploy O12Conv.msi to your computers using GPO...and if you don't know how to do that, then check out my last article about it.
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Written by Steve Wiseman on October 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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