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  • March 28, 2000 at 5:40 am #2081764

    Over the Network installations.

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    by howardlehman · about 24 years ago

    I need to upgrade about 30 computers from Word 97 to Word 2000, what is the best method – email link setup.exe?, use NT scripting?, or is there another utility I can use without SMS to get the job done?

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    • March 28, 2000 at 8:04 am #3896514

      Over the Network installations.

      by dbowlin · about 24 years ago

      In reply to Over the Network installations.

      Check out the Microsoft Office Site. They have a program to deploy Office 2000 products over a network which does not rely upon SMS.

    • March 28, 2000 at 11:14 am #3896506

      Over the Network installations.

      by douglas168 · about 24 years ago

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    • March 29, 2000 at 12:44 am #3896494

      Over the Network installations.

      by jpoirior · about 24 years ago

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      What OS are you running on the network and desktop? We have had a lot of success using Netware Application Launcher (NAL) and Zenworks to deploy new applications from the network.

    • March 29, 2000 at 1:52 am #3896489

      Over the Network installations.

      by bbuechler · about 24 years ago

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      If all 30 of the PC’s are identical and none of them have user documents stored locally, as well as no special apps (cookie cutter systems) – you could possibly get away with a Norton Ghost Enterprise Edition rollout which deploys a complete harddrive image, right down to the partition.

      If not and you need to retain individual system settings – I’d go with the above proposed method of looking at Microsoft’s page for rollout techniques.

    • June 24, 2000 at 5:25 pm #3784138

      Over the Network installations.

      by avidetto · about 23 years, 10 months ago

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      The answer is in your question, very simple. NT RESKIT!
      (I these are ways I do it cmd_line)

      Commands as follows :
      Rsetup \\workstationame (From: \Ntreskit)
      Rclient \\workstationname /l:domain\userid (password query will follow) (you begin a remote CMD SESSION).

      Copy exe to drive & run app, user Rkill to view. quick & dirty, if your only doing 30 you may just want to do this…OR (method 2)
      If you want, win winat (at) to schedule a install…on that machine, copy file to server & use command (if you have a common server everyone has mapped already this is VERY easy, *:\path\yourapplicaitonhere
      third method if you don’t, put it on a machine/server shared to everyone. write a batch to rclient into machines & do the remote at..butfor Just 30 machines as I said, I would just rclient..can do about 10 rclient sessions at one time /10 Rkill to view the install, when it drops off its done make sure to use the silent & nonquery switches when it’s required. Take you about 1 hour toget them all started

    • September 20, 2000 at 7:03 pm #3734937

      Over the Network installations.

      by howardlehman · about 23 years, 7 months ago

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