[287] in winnt
MS Office 97
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carrie Groves)
Tue Dec 29 11:31:42 1998
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:31:39 -0500
To: ntpartners@MIT.EDU
From: Carrie Groves <cgroves@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
This question is mainly for those who run Office 97 Standard or
Professional editions from a server and who are familiar with the SR-1 and
SR-2 patch or basically, anyone who can help me. I need to install the SR-1
patch before the SR-2 patch in the effort to make Office 97 completely Y2K
compliant. We run Office 97 from our NT server which means that I cannot
use the SR-1 patch on NT workstations running Office from this server. Here
is the message you get on the workstation when you try to update server
based Office 97 using SR-1: "You are running from a network drive, SR-1
patch does not support this...aborting." So what I did was remove Office
from the workstation and re-install using the setup program on the server.
Even though the applications get installed locally, apparently there are
files that get placed on the server during setup. After I try to run SR-1
this time, I get this message: "We are unable to locate your shared files
directory based on registry entries. Therefore, Microsoft Office 97 SR-1
Patch cannot continue. Microsoft Office 97 SR-1 Patch has determined that
your shared files are not running from a local Hard Drive. Thus, your
shared files cannot be patched. The patch will now abort." Since the
registry scares me a bit, I'd rather not edit the registry unless I
absolutely have to.
Sooo, then I removed this copy of Office and installed using the CD so that
I knew no files would be placed on the server. Now the SR-1 patch seems to
run fine until a window opens from the SR-1 Patch Utility which tells me
that it has reviewed the applications on this machine and "If an
application has been updated or is a newer version, the patch will not
update that application." It then shows me the applications that can be
updated, of which there are none and it shows me the applications that will
not be updated, of which there are many. My choices are continue or exit
patch. If I continue, nothing gets updated. Can I win?
The Microsoft web pages are no help at all. Does anyone have the answer?
Carrie Groves
Network Administrator
MIT ODSUE-IT
(617) 258-0714
