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Rory
Hello
Has anyone had any luck using 2003 server GPOs to inst
office on 2000 pro clients?
We have been using GPO / msi to install Office and to put
out SPs to 2000 clients from 2000 servers for a while.
This week we tried testing from 2003 Server to 2000
clients and had this problem:
First we put out office through user settings in the same
way as always in 2000 server and we get this
error -
"Ms office 2000 has been advertised on your computer by
the system administrator. To install MS office 2000, run
setup with the /q or /qb command-line option. Contact
your sys admin for more info."
Then we found the KB article 227813 that deals with this
problem. However, our setup does not meet the criteria
for the listed casues and the listed solutions did not
resolve the problem.
The causes listed on 227813 say this:
you are running 2k, AND you are logged in as non-admin,
AND you also either ran the command setup / jm, or you
applied the "AlwaysInstallElelvated Policy"
Yes we are running 2k and yes we are using non-admin
accounts (why would you be applying office only to admin
accounts)
However we did NOT run a /jm command and we did not set
the "AlwaysInstallElelvated Policy" In fact I never heard
of it.
So the casues listed on KB 227813 do not really apply to
our setup.
Next the solutions on KB 227813 also did not help.
It says to run setup with the /q, or /qb swithes to
resolve this, but that does not work either. (tried /qb)
Does anyone have an idea why our sftw GPOs
are working in 2003 to inst office to 2k clients
HERE IS MORE SETUP AND BACKGROUND INFO FOR ABOVE PROBLEM
- Server is 2003.
- client is 2000
- Administrative install of Office was installed to a
share with the setup.exe /a command (like it has always
been done w / 2k servers)
- Office Share point is on a 2k pro box
- IN GPO, we used the UNC path to data1 msi (not browse)
- Office share point admin inst was updated to SR1/a
- Would have then been updated with SP 3 if it had worked
- Tried over and over, deleted everything , reinstalled,
re-performed admin install, re installed SR1 update,
share point, deleted and created new GPO etc
ANY FOLKS OUT THERE HAVE ANY INFO / FIXS, GUESSES OR BEST
WISHES ?
Thank you to anyone who tries to help.
Rory
Has anyone had any luck using 2003 server GPOs to inst
office on 2000 pro clients?
We have been using GPO / msi to install Office and to put
out SPs to 2000 clients from 2000 servers for a while.
This week we tried testing from 2003 Server to 2000
clients and had this problem:
First we put out office through user settings in the same
way as always in 2000 server and we get this
error -
"Ms office 2000 has been advertised on your computer by
the system administrator. To install MS office 2000, run
setup with the /q or /qb command-line option. Contact
your sys admin for more info."
Then we found the KB article 227813 that deals with this
problem. However, our setup does not meet the criteria
for the listed casues and the listed solutions did not
resolve the problem.
The causes listed on 227813 say this:
you are running 2k, AND you are logged in as non-admin,
AND you also either ran the command setup / jm, or you
applied the "AlwaysInstallElelvated Policy"
Yes we are running 2k and yes we are using non-admin
accounts (why would you be applying office only to admin
accounts)
However we did NOT run a /jm command and we did not set
the "AlwaysInstallElelvated Policy" In fact I never heard
of it.
So the casues listed on KB 227813 do not really apply to
our setup.
Next the solutions on KB 227813 also did not help.
It says to run setup with the /q, or /qb swithes to
resolve this, but that does not work either. (tried /qb)
Does anyone have an idea why our sftw GPOs
are working in 2003 to inst office to 2k clients
HERE IS MORE SETUP AND BACKGROUND INFO FOR ABOVE PROBLEM
- Server is 2003.
- client is 2000
- Administrative install of Office was installed to a
share with the setup.exe /a command (like it has always
been done w / 2k servers)
- Office Share point is on a 2k pro box
- IN GPO, we used the UNC path to data1 msi (not browse)
- Office share point admin inst was updated to SR1/a
- Would have then been updated with SP 3 if it had worked
- Tried over and over, deleted everything , reinstalled,
re-performed admin install, re installed SR1 update,
share point, deleted and created new GPO etc
ANY FOLKS OUT THERE HAVE ANY INFO / FIXS, GUESSES OR BEST
WISHES ?
Thank you to anyone who tries to help.
Rory