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Ondrej Tucny
Asked: 2011-03-31 10:28:16 +0800 CST

How to select shell language with a MUI Office 2010 install using OCT file

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I have created a network installation point for Office 2010 ProPlus that contains two language packs — en-us, and cs-cz (Czech). I've also created an Office Customization File.

In my environment the OS language is English, however the locale is set to Czech. Office 2010 setup when run from the network installation point keeps running with Czech as the shell UI language. This behavior is documented.

I attempted to modify the config.xml file in the ProPlus.WW directory and add the following two lines:

<AddLanguage Id="en-us" ShellTransform="yes"/>
<AddLanguage Id="cs-cz" />

When I run setup.exe /adminfile myconfig.msp the setting is ignored. When I try to specify the config file on the command line like setup.exe /adminfile myconfig.msp /config ProPlus.WW\config.xml setup just displays the set of available command-line options, apparently not accepting these two parameters at once.

So, how to override this behavior and force English to be the default shell UI language?

deployment microsoft-office-2010 languages

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Actually the problem is in the order of command line arguments. The /config argument must be specified first, before the /adminfile argument. Then the setup behaves as expected, installing the language marked with ShellTransform="yes" as the display language.

    The command-line will look like this:

    setup.exe /config ProPlus.WW\config.xml /adminfile myconfig.msp

    Workaround used before: Most likely there's no way to do that which is a very, very annoying “feature”. The only workaround is:

    1. change Windows' locale in Regional settings to wanted primary language;
    2. install Office 2010;
    3. change back Windows' locale to the secondary language.
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  2. SETUP.EXE /CONFIG CONFIG.XML /ADMINFILE SOME-MSP.MSP

    Take note: Office MUI product ID is OMUI.xx-xx. Visio = VISMUI.xx-xx and Project MUI = PMUI.xx-xx. It must be set in your first line: Configuration Product="OMUI.nl-nl"

    example of customized CONFIG.XML:

    <Configuration Product="OMUI.nl-nl">
<Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" />
<Logging Type="Verbose" Path="C:\TEMP" Template="MS-Office-OMUI.NL-NL.TXT" />
<AddLanguage Id="nl-nl" ShellTransform="yes"/>
<AddLanguage Id="nl-nl" />
<Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" />
</Configuration>
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