

Install openoffice on drive install#
Setup for OpenOffice is Windows Installer based which makes creating an unattended install easy. Creating an unattended installation for OpenOffice The script will install the JRE to the virtual drive letter, install just the core Java components, disable the updater and ensure the quick starter service is removed.
Install openoffice on drive update#
To install the JRE, download the latest offline installer - Sun JRE 1.6 Update 18 offline installer and use this install script: It’s probably best to download OpenOffice and the JRE separately so that you have a bit more control over what gets installed. Take note when downloading OpenOffice – you can get two installers, one with Java and one without however when I attempted to download the installer with Java, I kept getting the one without. OpenOffice relies on Java for some functions, but will install without it - if you don’t need those features, you can avoid installing Java.


Bundle a version of the Sun Java Runtime Environment with OpenOffice (or link an existing virtual instance of the JRE to a virtual OpenOffice package).Virtualising OpenOffice is a basic three-step process: This post details virtualising 3.x with Microsoft Application Virtualization however the same basic steps should apply to any application virtualisation product.
