Question : Problem: Error 1603 when patching Office via SMS 2003

We are using patch management in SMS 2003 for patching Windows XP and Office 2003.
Patching of Windows XP works well on all PCs
On some PCs patches of Office 2003 fail with the error 1603.
We are using one SMS patch management package for all patches Windows and Office.
Attaches you can find Patchinstall.log file.

Anyone can help?

Answer : Problem: Error 1603 when patching Office via SMS 2003

By default MSIInstaller is run under the system account unless it's been changed but I wouldn't expect to see a 1603 error, I'd expect to see errors relating to permissions if that were the problem.

It seems likely that there's something screwy in the windows installer config.

Will it install after you run the windows installer cleanup utility?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301