Add Lync 2010 To Existing Office 2010 ProPlus Deployments?

Question

Office 2010 ProPlus was deployed with Word, Excel PowerPoint and Outlook 2 years ago.  We are now going to deploy Lync 2010 and need an easy way to add Lync to the existing Office installations.  On new installations we will add Lync as part of
the build image.
We do not have SCCM.  Is there a user-friendly way to deploy the msp update file to existing Office installations that lack Lync that does not require SCCM?  I have thought of making some kind of startup script, but I don't think it will be a good
idea for that installation script to run at every reboot.  We only want it to run until Lync is installed and not again.
Also, some users have already installed a stand alone version of Lync 2010 on their systems that is not part of the Office Suite.  Will we need to remove that version before the version in the Office suite can be added or does the stand alone Lync installer
actually use and install the same files from the Office suite?

Answer 1

From memory, Lync2010, although it is an included benefit/entitlement within OFF2010ProPlus, doesn't install as part of the main suite setup.exe, there's a separate setup.exe/installer for Lync2010 ?
So, it shouldn't just be an MSPfile applied to modify ProPlus, you'll need to run the installer for Lync anyway?
You might want to create an MSPfile for the Lync installation, to get the desired installation experience+customisation.
Regardless, you should probably have a "wrapper" script, and in the script, do some kind of detection for Lync=present (maybe check the uninstall regkeys or check for presence of the exe under programfiles).
if found, then skip the installation step.
if absent, perform the installation step.
similar to this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff602181(v=office.14).aspx
There is also a separate Lync installer, for customers who don't have OfficeProPlus, and you may need to detect for that, and decide accordingly.
Don
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