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Sharing Files Across Language Versions
Deploying Microsoft Project 2002 with the Multilanguage User Interface Pack
Removing Multilanguage User Interface Pack Files

Deploying Microsoft® Project 2002 with the Multilanguage User Interface (MUI) Pack will give you the advantage of having a single installation of Microsoft Project for your entire international organization. However, because some plug-in language features are limited, you might decide to deploy localized versions of Microsoft Project 2002 in different language-speaking areas.

Sharing Files Across Language Versions

Just as file compatibility affects how users share files between versions of Microsoft Project, file compatibility also affects how users share files across language versions.

Sharing Microsoft Project Files Across Language Versions

When all users in an international organization have upgraded to Microsoft Project 2002, sharing files across languages is easy, whether the files are from Microsoft Project 2002 with the MUI Pack, or from localized versions of Microsoft Project 2002. Even during a gradual upgrade to Microsoft Project 2002, you can still share files with older localized versions of Microsoft Project.

If you are upgrading gradually to Microsoft Project 2002, you can save Microsoft Project 2002 files in formats that allow users of previous localized versions of Microsoft Project to open the files, yet preserve the MUI Pack features of Microsoft Project 2002. These file formats are not the same as the formats used by previous localized versions; if you save a Microsoft Project 2002 file in the format of the previous localized version, features from the MUI Pack are lost.

Your operating system can determine whether you can display Asian or right-to-left text (such as Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, or Urdu) between different versions of Microsoft Project.

To display a right-to-left language, you must be running a right-to-left language version of your operating system on your computer.

Deploying Microsoft Project 2002 with the Multilanguage User Interface Pack

Plug-in language capability in Microsoft Project 2002 is provided by the Multilanguage User Interface Pack (MUI Pack). You have great flexibility in customizing and installing the language files your organization needs. For example, you can customize Microsoft Project 2002 to install with MUI Pack files by chaining your installation, or you can customize and install language files after deploying Microsoft Project. In addition, although the MUI Pack and Microsoft Project are installed from different CDs, each can be deployed from the same or from a different administrative installation point.

MUI Pack Components and Installation Process

Microsoft Project 2002 and its language components give you flexibility in how you deploy Microsoft Project and the MUI Pack for your organization. For example, you can create a separate administrative installation point for the MUI Pack, or multiple installation points for different groups of languages. Or, you can include Microsoft Project and MUI Pack files on the same installation point.

The MUI Pack comes with its own Setup program. Each language has its own package (MSI file), and can be customized individually. When you install the MUI Pack, you can make language files available to users on demand, instead of copying files to users' computers; or you can choose to copy the language files to users' hard disks. The MUI Pack works with Windows Installer to install the necessary files only when users run Microsoft Project with a particular language configuration.

You can also choose to let users customize their own installation of language files, selecting from the language files that you make available on the administrative installation point. When you install Microsoft Project 2002, an installation language setting is added to the Windows registry. When you start Microsoft Project, it reads this setting to determine default behavior, such as whether to display language-specific capabilities.

In the Language Resources subkey, Microsoft Project Setup creates an entry named InstallLanguage with a value equal to the locale ID (LCID) for the installation language of Microsoft Project. For example, if the value of the InstallLanguage entry is 1041, the installation language is Japanese.

The Microsoft Project Setup program automatically sets the installation language to correspond to the language version of Microsoft Project that you purchased. You can customize the installation language, however, so that Microsoft Project runs with defaults that match foreign locations.

Multilanguage User Interface Pack Components

The MUI Pack for Microsoft Project 2002 has the following components:

• MUI Packs (Lpk.msi files)

• Multilanguage User Interface Pack Wizard (Lpkwiz.msi)

• Multilanguage User Interface Pack Setup (Lpksetup.exe)

• System Files Update (Osp.msi)

By using these components, you can create a customized multilanguage deployment suited to your organization's needs.

Locale Identifiers for Each Language

In some deployment scenarios, you must know the locale identifier (LCID) for a language in order to install the correct MUI Pack. MUI Packs are installed on the administrative installation point under folder names by their corresponding locale identifier.

The following table lists languages for which the Microsoft Project 2002 Multilanguage User Interface Pack includes MUI Packs; it also lists the corresponding locale identifiers.

Overview of the Deployment Process

Your deployment process will vary, depending on whether you install the MUI Pack during or after installing Microsoft Project 2002, along with other options.

The following general steps apply to all international deployments of Microsoft Project 2002:

• Creating an administrative installation point for Microsoft Project 2002.

• Creating administrative installation points for the languages you need from the Microsoft Project 2002 MUI Pack.

• Customizing the MUI Pack installation.

• Configuring Setup.ini to chain the installation of one or more languages with your Microsoft Project 2002 deployment.

• Deploying Microsoft Project 2002 to your users, together with selected MUI Packs.

• Installing one or more MUI Packs by using a separate Setup.ini customization, or by allowing users to choose MUI Packs with the MUI Pack Wizard.

Create Administrative Installation Points for the Multilanguage User Interface Pack Languages

You run the MUI Pack Setup program in administrative mode to install the MUI Pack to an administrative installation point located on the server.

The MUI Pack consists of language files on multiple CDs. If you want to use languages on different CDs, you must run Setup separately for each CD you need. You can add language files to an existing administrative installation point by specifying the location each time.

The procedure below assumes that you create an administrative installation point on a computer using Microsoft Windows 2000. You can, instead, create an administrative installation point on a computer using the Microsoft Windows XP, Windows NT®, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me) operating systems. However, the computer used to create the admin image must have the correct code page (or pages) installed that correspond to the MUI Packs that you are copying to the installation point. Otherwise, only the languages that are supported by the system will be copied. If you are creating an admin image for multiple languages that use different code pages, use a computer with the Windows XP, Windows NT, or Windows 2000 operating system. (Windows 98 and Windows Me systems support only one code page at a time.)

To create an administrative installation point for the Multilanguage User Interface Pack

1. Create a share on a network server for the administrative installation point.

1. On a computer running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP with write access to the share, connect to the server share.

1. On the Start menu, click Run, and then click Browse to locate the MUI Pack CD.

1. On the MUI Pack CD for the language you need, browse to the appropriate language subfolder, select Lpketup.exe, and then click Open.

1. On the command line following Lpksetup.exe, type /a, and then click OK.

1. When prompted, enter the organization name you want to define for all users who install the MUI Pack from this location.

1. When prompted for the installation location, enter the server and the share that you created, and then click Next.

1. On the Available Languages page, choose the languages you want to include on this installation point.

Note that languages that are not available on the current CD will appear dimmed on this page. You can add languages from other CDs to the same administrative installation point by running Lpksetup.exe /a with additional MUI Pack CDs, and specifying the same network server location.

Customize MUI Pack Language Options

You can customize your Microsoft Project 2002 deployment with the MUI Pack to include specific language settings, and to specify which languages you want to deploy. You can specify language settings as part of your Microsoft Project customization, or modify settings after installing Microsoft Project and the MUI Pack.

When you deploy MUI Packs customized in a transform file as part of your Microsoft Project deployment, you can include language settings stored with other settings in an Office profile settings file (OPS file), as well as language settings you select in the Custom Installation Wizard. For an MUI Pack transform, you can only customize feature states and Setup properties.

Include Language Settings in a Microsoft Project 2002 Transform

You can define language settings when you create a custom Microsoft Project transform as part of your Microsoft Project 2002 deployment. You can save and apply the language settings in two ways: by using a profile settings file (OPS file) created with the Profile Wizard, or by specifying language settings in the Custom Installation Wizard directly when customizing Microsoft Project.

Save language settings in an OPS file

When you run Microsoft Project to specify language settings and user preferences, you can use the Profile Wizard to store the settings in an OPS file. The OPS file becomes part of a customized installation of Microsoft Project. Because the choice of editing languages affects the functionality of certain applications, you can create unique OPS files for different groups of users based on the languages they are using.

In general, follow these steps to configure and capture language settings by using the Profile Wizard

1. Install Microsoft Project 2002 on the test machine, along with the MUI Pack files for the languages you want to install.

1. Customize the Microsoft Project 2002 environment and language settings.

1. Save the settings in an OPS file by using the Profile Wizard.

After you create administrative installation points for the languages you need, you will be able to use the Custom Installation Wizard to create a customized installation of the MUI Pack for users in different language-speaking areas.

Install Microsoft Project 2002 and the Multilanguage User Interface Pack on a test computer

Install Microsoft Project on a test computer by running Microsoft Project Setup (Setup.exe) on your Microsoft Project CD. Then, install the MUI Pack files that you want to customize by running the MUI Pack Setup (Lpksetup.exe) program. The MUI Pack Setup program starts the MUI Pack Setup Wizard, which will guide you through the steps for installing the MUI Pack files that you choose. You can specify language settings (such as the Help language) during the MUI Pack Setup installation, or by using the Language Settings tool after Microsoft Project and the MUI Packs have been installed.

Capture settings in an OPS file

Typically, most users creating multilingual documents rarely work with more than three languages. Limiting the number of editing languages results in a user interface that is less cluttered, and allows Microsoft Project to run efficiently for particular languages.

You can specify the following language settings for users:

• Install Language Sets the defaults for Microsoft Project 2002 and documents.

• User Interface Language Determines the language used by menus and dialogs.

• Help Language Determines the language used for end-user Help.

• Editing Language Exposes the functionality for editing documents in those particular languages.

You set these values for your installation on your test computer, then save them with other settings to customize users' computers.

To capture language feature settings by using the Profile Wizard:

1. Click Start, Programs, Microsoft Office Tools, Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit Tools, Profile Wizard.

1. On the Microsoft Office Language Settings page, click the Enabled Languages tab.

1. Select the languages to use for user interface, Help, and editing.

1. Set the value of Default version of Microsoft Project to the installation language you want for your users.

1. Start Microsoft Project 2002, and specify any additional user settings.

1. Start the Profile Wizard, and save your settings in an OPS file.

You then include the OPS file in the Custom Installation Wizard when you create a transform that is applied when Microsoft Project 2002 is installed.

Specify language settings with the Custom Installation Wizard

Instead of—or in addition to—using an OPS file to specify and save language customizations, you can specify language settings in the Custom Installation Wizard. Your customizations are then saved in a transform (MST file).

To specify language settings in the Custom Installation Wizard

1. In the Custom Installation Wizard, on the Change Office User Settings page, click Microsoft Project 2002 (user).

1. Under Language Settings, select the language options that you want for your deployment.

Create an MUI Pack Transform

You might choose to install additional MUI Packs after installing Microsoft Project 2002, or to install all MUI Packs later. You create a MUI Pack transform when you want to customize the way a particular MUI Pack is installed. An advantage of deploying MUI Packs with Microsoft Project 2002 is that you can customize language settings in your transform, something you cannot do with a MUI Pack transform.

Settings you can customize in a MUI Pack transform are:

• Feature states

• Setup properties

If you are deploying Microsoft Project 2002 with the MUI Pack using Windows 2000 IntelliMirror, you must include a separate transform for each MUI Pack, in which you set the CHECKINSTALLORDER Setup property to False. By using IntelliMirror for your deployment, you cannot guarantee the order in which components are installed, so MUI Packs might be installed before Microsoft Project. Usually, this is not allowed. However, by setting this property, MUI Packs can be installed on a user's computer, even if Microsoft Project is not yet installed.

To customize feature states and Setup properties in a transform for an MUI Pack

1. In the Custom Installation Wizard, on the Open MSI File page, browse to and open Langpack.msi, the installer package for the MUI Pack, in the appropriate language subfolder.

1. On the Set Feature Installation States page, open Office Shared Features.

1. Open International Support to choose installation states for fonts.

1. Open Proofing Tools to choose installation states for proofing tools available in the MUI Pack.

1. On the Modify Setup Properties page, choose or add setup properties that you want to include in the MUI Pack transform.

Specify Language-specific Feature Installation States

When you select language-specific features on the Set Feature Installation States page, keep in mind the following:

• If your users work with languages that use more than one code page, install the Core Support Files feature on users' computers.

• If your users work with a right-to-left language (for example, Hebrew) and their operating system can support right-to-left text, install the Bidirectional Support feature on users' computers.

• If your users work with Asian text, and they are not running a matching language version of Windows, install the Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, or Simplified Chinese fonts on users' computers.

• If your users need a full Unicode font — for example, if they are working with a project that include languages that use more than one code page — install the Universal font on users' computers.

Allow Users to Choose Languages to Install

You can make languages available to users through the MUI Pack Wizard by putting them on an administrative installation point. Users run the wizard by double-clicking Lpksetup.exe on the administrative installation point. This starts the MUI Pack Wizard (Lpkwiz.msi), which guides users through installing the languages they want on their computers.

The MUI Pack Wizard does not have a silent mode. It is used interactively to install MUI Packs on a user's computer.

To manually choose the MUI Pack languages to install

1. On the administrative installation point, click on Lpksetup.exe to start the MUI Pack Wizard.

1. On the Available Languages page, choose the languages you want to install.

1. On the Choose the current languages to use page, specify the language settings for the languages.

1. On the Choose the type of installation you need page, choose Install Now, or select another installation type.

Customize and Install the MUI Pack with a Microsoft Project 2002 Installation

If you know the language requirements of your organization at the time that you are deploying Microsoft Project 2002, it is easy to install MUI Packs at the same time by chaining your MUI Pack installation with your Microsoft Project installation.

To chain your MUI Pack installation, first install the MUI Packs on your administrative installation point. Then, use the Setup INI Customization Wizard (Iniwiz.exe) to add a section for each MUI Pack that you want to chain with your Microsoft Project installation.

You can create a separate transform for each language to select the language-specific features you want to be available for your users. For example, in a transform specific to an individual MUI Pack, you can change feature states, specify additional servers, and modify or add properties. However, you must customize language settings (such as specifying the user interface language) in the Custom Installation Wizard with other Microsoft Project settings, and save them in your Microsoft Project transform.

There are two properties that you might want to set for your chained installation with MUI Packs:

• The CHECKINSTALLORDER property allows the MUI Pack files to be installed before Microsoft Project 2002 is installed. Set this property to False when the installation order for a chained deployment cannot be determined in advance; for example, with Systems Management Server or Windows IntelliMirror deployments.

• Microsoft Project MUI Pack Setup automatically matches MUI Pack feature installation states to the corresponding features in the core English version of Microsoft Project 2002. If you specify different installation states for MUI Pack features in a transform, you must set the NOFEATURESTATEMIGRATION property to Do not mach feature states during installation to override the default matching behavior.

To customize Setup.ini to chain MUI Pack packages to your Microsoft Project 2002 installation

1. Start the Setup INI Customization Wizard and enter the path to your Microsoft Project 2002 administrative installation point.

1. On the Select MSI and EXE files to include in your INI file page, select the check boxes next to the packages that you want to include in your custom INI file, or click Browse to add packages from another location, and then click Next.

1. On the Specify options for each package in your INI file page, select the chained package you want to customize and specify the options you want for that package. For each package, you can specify an MST file and unique display settings, as well as additional property values.

1. Click Next.

Customize and Install the MUI Pack After a Microsoft Project 2002 Installation

You can install the MUI Pack packages after your Microsoft Project 2002 installation, rather than chaining the installation with Microsoft Project. If you create an administrative installation point that includes the MUI Pack, you can simplify and control the deployment process. For example, you can standardize installation of language resources for all the users in your organization.

As with a combined Microsoft Project 2002 and MUI Pack scenario, you can configure language settings in your Microsoft Project transform. If you want to change the language settings after you install the MUI Packs, you can use the Custom Maintenance Wizard.

Customize and Install Additional MUI Packs After Microsoft Project 2002

You can chain one or more MUI Packs with your Microsoft Project 2002 deployment, or install Microsoft Project 2002 without any additional MUI Packs. Then, you can later chain together the deployment of additional MUI Packs.

Suppose you want to deploy the French, Spanish, or Japanese Language Packs after your initial deployment of Microsoft Project 2002.

To chain packages, you customize the Setup INI file for one of the MUI Packs by running the Setup INI Customization Wizard (Iniwiz.exe). Although you can modify Setup.ini manually in Notepad, the wizard provides a convenient interface for adding and customizing chained packages.

To customize Setup to chain additional language features to a Microsoft Project 2002 deployment

1. Start the Setup INI Customization Wizard and enter the path to the folder for one of the MUI Packs on your administrative installation point.

1. On the Select MSI and EXE files to include in your ini file page, select the check boxes next to the packages that you want to include in your custom INI file, or click Browse to add packages from another location, and then click Next.

1. On the Specify options for each package in your INI file page, select the options you want for the package. For each package, you can specify an MST file and unique display settings, as well as additional property values.

Users can now install this group of MUI Packs by running Setup.exe at a command line in the Spanish Language Pack folder. For example,

\\server\share\admin_install_point\3082\setup.exe /qb-

Modify Microsoft Project 2002 Language Settings

After deploying Microsoft Project 2002, you might want to change the language settings you originally deployed with Microsoft Project. You can use the Custom Maintenance Wizard to modify your Microsoft Project installation.

To change language settings for a Microsoft Project 2002 installation

1. Start the Custom Maintenance Wizard.

1. On the Open the MSI File page, specify the Microsoft Project 2002 MSI file.

1. On the Change Office User Settings page, click Microsoft Project 2002 (User). 

1. Under Language Settings, select the language options that you want for your deployment.

After saving the customizations, apply the Custom Maintenance Wizard file to users' computers.

Allow Users to Install Additional MUI Packs

You can also allow users to install individual MUI Packs over the network from an administrative installation point.

To install MUI Packs on a single computer

1. On the MUI Pack installation point that contains the languages you want to install (or from the CD that contains the MUI Packs), run Lpksetup.exe to start the MUI Pack Wizard

1. On the Available Languages page, choose the languages you want to install.

1. On the Choose the current languages to use page, specify the language settings for the languages.

1. On the Choose the type of installation you need page, choose Install Now, or select another installation type.

Removing Multilanguage User Interface Pack Files

A user might have a short-term need for a set of Microsoft Project 2002 MUI Pack features for a particular language. When that user no longer needs to work with the files in that language, or if a traveling user moves from location to location, these MUI Pack files remain on the computer.

You can remove these MUI Pack files, if required.

To remove Microsoft Project 2002 MUI Pack files

1. In Control Panel, double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon, and then double-click the name of the MUI Pack file that you want to remove.

1. Click Add or Remove Features, select the MUI Pack features you want to remove, and then click Not Available.

1. Click Update Now.

See Also

The steps for customizing and distributing Microsoft Project 2002 and the MUI Pack are part of the larger process of deploying Microsoft Project 2002. For more information on deploying MUI packs, see the Deploying Microsoft Project 2002 with the Multilanguage User Interface Pack section in this article.

In addition to specifying language features and providing support for international users, you can customize many other aspects of your Microsoft Project 2002 installation for international deployment. For more information, see the International Configuration resource kit article.

You can use the Custom Installation Wizard to customize international installations of Microsoft Project. For more information, see the Custom Installation Wizard resource kit article.

You can use the Profile Wizard to save language-related settings to a file you distribute as part of a custom installation of Microsoft Project 2002. For more information, see the Profile Wizard resource kit article.