Run and admin install of Office97 "setup /a", and store on your distribution server. Then run the NIW over it to create a custom STF/LST file. NIW will give you the switches to run in silent mode upon completion.

In your login script do something like:

If exist ("C:\program files\microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe") = 0
; Install Office
Shell '%COMSPEC% /C Start /wait \\server\share\setup.exe /q1n /b2 /l:custom.lst' ; or something like that
Endif

[This message has been edited by ADargaville (edited 12 August 2000).]