Microsoft® Windows® Desktop Deployment Resource Kit

Office Distribution Points

Creating distribution points for Microsoft Office 2003 Editions is more straightforward than creating Windows XP Professional distribution points. Office 2003 Editions distribution points are even simpler than creating Office XP distribution points because you can now create distribution points simply by copying the contents of the product CD to the distribution point. This new capability is called compressed CD images. You can still create administrative installations of Office 2003 Editions, however. You can only create administrative installations of Office 2003 Editions using product CDs that you receive through a Volume License Agreement.

My recommendation in most cases is that you create Office 2003 Editions distribution ...