Hi,
Here is the situation. It has come down from ‘the powers that be’ that we
are to implement GPO’s to manage software, particularly MS Office 2000. To
do this we will need to install 2000 server with AD. Currently we have
setup a test domain,using the existing SAM to produce an equivilent
environment. Our test workstations are Win2k Pro. We have copied the
Office 2000 cd to a network share and then created a GPO, using the
data1.mis file. When this is assigned to the workstation, the application
is installed perfectly and office runs with no problems.
Here is the ‘rub’. Because of licensing, we do not want to install from the
data1.msi file. We need to create a custom MSI file. Therefore we are
using Wininstall to create the custom MSI package. This proceds fine and
the new package is created in the MS Office network share. (NOTE: we have
tested by placing in a different network share) When the GPO is created
with this new package, it is assigned to the computer and it installs with
no problems, (event viewer says package installs) Now, when we attempt to
run Winword.exe or Excel.exe, we get this message…..
“This application must be installed to run. Please run setup from
thelocation where youoriginally installed the application.”
We have tried multiple ways to install, multiple office configurations, and
different computer / server settings. This problems happens every time. In
our research I have checked the Knowledge Base and found articles 224095,
233529, 238387. But these articles refer to Win9x and we are using Win2k
Pro.
Has anyone encountered this and found a solution? Thanks.
Michael R.