Office 2007 B2TR Download Link

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Anyone able to access the document that they refer to in this dire warning?

"IMPORTANT: Please read the update documentation, referenced in the "To
install this download" section on this page, BEFORE applying this Beta 2
Technical Refresh update. The documents list several steps that you must
complete prior to installation to ensure a successful update. This is NOT a
single click update."

There is no "To install this download" section that I can find, and most of
the other links require you to be an official beta tester apparently.

I went ahead and did a "single click update" and all seems to be OK, but
Word threw a hairball about a bad "building blocks.dotx" file.
 
I didn't see that note just that I had to have O2007 beta2 installed. So I
did a simple update. Got the same error you referred to when first opening
Word. But it doesn't appear on subsequent launches of Word. So, it seems
to fix itself.
 
"This is NOT a single click update."
NICE!
I can't find anything either.
Not a single click update but then no info thereafter.

dotcom
 
Chupacabra said:
I went ahead and did a "single click update" and all seems to be OK, but
Word threw a hairball about a bad "building blocks.dotx" file.
Click to expand...

Did you need your product key to install the refresh?
 
Interesting...

I was d/ling the update (since it's NOT $1.50), and it froze about 80% of
the way.

I thought -- GREAT -- got to start all over again. Canceled the current
download.

Went through the motions, and it RESUMED WHERE IT LEFT OFF.

Nice.
 
**&$%^!! I can't find my original Office2007CD.

Anyone know if it's STILL available to an original beta tester? I erased the
ISO when the CD was burned. -DOH-
 
**&$%^!! I can't find my original Office2007CD.

Anyone know if it's STILL available to an original beta tester? I erased
the ISO when the CD was burned. -DOH-
Click to expand...

Probably, but you gotta pay $1.50 to download the Beta 2 code...
 
It's Not a Full Install Package, Just FYI. It's a Patch that requires you
to already have Beta 2 installed on your computer, Just FYI.
 
"Patch"?!?!

That's more like a full body cast.

Just FYI, I have the "patch" installed on one of my
WinXP Pro machines that has the Office 2007
beta. Office 2007 looks better and seems to
run a bit faster, more responsive.


-Michael
 
I got the same error message with Microsoft Word 2007 Beta 2 TR as well, so
it might be a Bug, so I will file a Bug Report on Microsoft Beta Place, Just
FYI.
 
Found this on the Office Discussion Page!...FYI

Beta 2 Technical Refresh will be released today, September 14, at 9 am
Pacific Time. It can be downloaded from the Office Preview Site (same
location where Beta 2 was/is available). It will be free of charge for
everyone who already has Beta 2. Please read all of this post before you
install B2TR.

Here are some release notes from Daniel Escapa
(http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2006/09/14/753074.aspx):
* It is a patch update, that means that you _must_ have Office 2007
Beta2 installed on the system.
* The patch for OneNote will include the patch for all of Office so you
don't need two downloads.
* Since it includes both products (as well as others) it will be big!
~495 megs (English version) so be ready with your downloads
* It will be free, no charge for the download
* Make sure that you install the newest version of WDS so that search
works great in OneNote & Outlook
* Make sure to download the PDF+XPS addin if you want to publish to
those formats;
* Per usual you can open notes created in OneNote 2007 B1, B1TR, B2 &
B2TR but once you open the notes in OneNote 2007 B2TR they will be
updated to the newest version of the OneNote 2007 file format. You will
not be able to open B2TR files in B2, so if you are really cautious you
might want to make a backup of your files before opening OneNote 2007
B2TR for the first time. I don't do this but then again I am not that
cautious as some of your are and I don't store my class notes in OneNote
: )
* If you open for the first time since OneNote 2003 then it should take
of upgrade automatically however if you ran OneNote 2007 Beta2 at any
point then the first boot reg key will still be set.
* Log bugs for issues that you have!
WDS3 Beta 2:
http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2006/08/22/713234.aspx
XPS & PDF add-ins:
http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2006/09/14/752951.aspx
Office preview site:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx
Log bugs at: http://connect.microsoft.com/onenote/

There are a few more very important things:
* The patch itself cannot be uninstalled. You can only remove Office &
OneNote 2007 in their entirety, but you cannot revert back to the Beta 2
level.
* Once the patch is installed, you cannot install any Beta 2 program
anymore. That means if you e.g. only have OneNote 2007 Beta 2 installed,
but want to take a look at the rest of Office 2007 later on, you will
have to install Office 2007 Beta 2 before you install the B2TR patch.
Once the patch is installed, you basically can't add any 2007 programs
to your computer.
* Keep the beta 2 downloads and the B2TR download somewhere on your
harddrive. Any reinstallation will require you to install Beta 2 first,
followed by the patch.
* You should focus on reporting bugs that are showstoppers. Microsoft is
aiming to lock down OneNote 2007, so only bugs that have serious
negative impact for users will be fixed.
* Synchronize all notebooks first before installing B2TR. You will have
to install the patch on all your computers with ON 2007 as well before
you can really use ON again.

* There have been important changes made to OneNote 2007
synchronization. These changes affect you if your OneNote notebooks are
contained in a folder that is held offline by Windows XP Offline Files.
This is mainly the case, if your OneNote Notebooks folder is contained
in a redirected My Documents folder. If you are in this situation, then
OneNote B2TR will no longer synchronize your notebooks with its own
mechanism, but rather leave it up to Windows Offline Files. That means,
that you no longer benefit from the ability to edit the same section at
the same time on two or more computers and have all the changes merged.
Instead, it is a file level synchronization. Microsoft had to take this
step, as they couldn't get ON synchronization to work well with Windows
Offline files. I suggest therefore to use the following approach for
upgrading to B2TR:
1. Make sure that all notebooks are fully synced (open ON and press F9
on every computer, then wait till you see all notebooks with a
checkmark) and there are no errors.
2. Before installing B2TR (on all computers), uncheck Tools, Options,
Synchronization, "Disable Windows Offline Files". Don't reboot yet. This
option has been removed in B2TR, which means that the changes it makes
to Windows can't be easily undone after B2TR is installed.
3. Close all notebooks on all computers.
4. Reboot all computers.
5. Install B2TR on all computers.
6. Move the .one files on the server (the computer that holds the
non-offline copy of them, prob. your desktop) into a new folder that is
not kept offline anywhere. For example, I moved my "OneNote Notebooks"
folder to the root of one of my drives, as it was beforehand under My
Documents. Share that folder in Windows.
7. Open ON on your server. It might create the ON default notebooks. If
it does, just close them all.
8. Open ON on your other computers, open all your notebooks and adjust
the destinations for the filing rules (Tools, Options, Filing Rules).
9. Now you should be all set to go with B2TR and still enjoy the
benefits of the great ON synchronization mechanism.

Now we only need to wait till it is 9 am Pacific Time to get it! (I
don't have B2TR yet either).

Patrick Schmid
 
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