Resolved Installation of Office 2003 Service Pack 3 Fails!

Hi everyone. I just installed Microsoft Office 2003 Professional on my Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 computer. I uninstalled Microsoft Office XP Professional before I installed Office 2003. Installation went fine. I then downloaded Office 2003 SP3 manually from the Microsoft website. Installation got about half way through before I got an error message that said "Error 2717 and internal error has occurred. Contact your system administrator for assistance." I clicked Ok and I got a dialog box that said the update cannot be applied. Once I closed that dialog box setup quit.

I have tried 2 times. Once putting the Office CD in the drive and once without it. Both times I get that error. There is just no excuse for this update to fail on a brand new install of office. How can there be corrupt files on a new install? I was able to install 2 other updates for Office without a problem. Should I try to install SP3 in Safe Mode? Also after the installation of office finshed I had setup delete the installation files from my harrdrive. The installation files were located in C:/MSOcache. Should I try having setup copy those files to my harddrive again and then seeing of SP3 will install?

Thanks for the assisstance.

 

I fixed it!

I ended up fixing my problem. I just did a reapir install of Office using the CD and then installed Office 2003 SP3. Installation was successfull and I was able to install the other security updates for office as well without a problem. I am still really baffled as to why a new install of office would cause SP3 to not install. I mean how could an install of office only a few hours old suddenly become corrupt and require a repair? Anyway all is good now.

 

What do you mean let the update software do it for you? Do you mean let office download and install the updates? What should I have done differently that you disagree with? The first thing I did was I used windows update to search for updates for Office 2003. Windows update said the Office SP3 was ready to install and when I tried to install it using windows update it failed so I downloaded SP3 manually and tried to install it again. That failed as well so I did a repair install of office and then I was successfull in installing SP3 manually. So obviously something happened during the installation of office that caused it to become corrupt and performing a repair install made it so that SP3 was successfull in installing.

 

You did fine!

 

Thank you.