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Jeff
Ok, I'm being dogged constantly by my managers about when
we will get Office 2000 upgraded to service pack 3. I
can't even load SP1 without a chaotic amount of errors
(only on Win2K)
Here is what I see happening.
2 X NT4 DCs, a few dozen Win2k Pro workstations.
Load Office 2000 pro on Win2k Pro SP3/SP4 workstations (as
administrator) using the "run all from my computer" option.
All is well and the users (domain users) are happily
typing away.
Load Office 2000 SR1 patch (dont get me started about
re-inserting the Office CD for this =\ ... ) and the
service pack completes successfully. All is well for
administrators, but the general user get the "1706" error,
even though in theory the ENTIRE distribution was loaded
via "run all from my computer" so there should be nothing
else left to load.
As a side note, I did some experiments because I didnt
remember this happening when our systems were all NT4. I
loaded Office 2000 and then the SR1 patch on one of the DCs
and graced a user account to log on locally and it worked
perfect. I joined an old Windows 98 platform to the
network, loaded Office 2000 and SP1 on it and experienced
no problems with this configuration. I also have a test
lan for deployment of Win2k Server/Exchange 2k/Win2k Pro
that has a few workstations tied to it. Same problem and
its a pure 2000 LAN!
NONE of the articles on technet helped, I tried them all
and flavors of them all with no luck. I am not ready to
shell out cash for dozens of copies of office XP when 2000
works fine without service packs. I'm beginning to think
that the service packs weren't thoroughly tested and I'm
guessing that previous comments I've seen are correct and
there are no plans to fix this.
I'm sure if there was a solution that worked that it isn't
being disclosed. A full week of searching old archives,
google group searches and searching all of technet (even 2
year old editions just in case!) have met with zero success.
If anybody has some light to shed I'd appreciate it. Just
don't ask me to add all the users to the "administrators"
group! =)
TIA,
Jeff
we will get Office 2000 upgraded to service pack 3. I
can't even load SP1 without a chaotic amount of errors
(only on Win2K)
Here is what I see happening.
2 X NT4 DCs, a few dozen Win2k Pro workstations.
Load Office 2000 pro on Win2k Pro SP3/SP4 workstations (as
administrator) using the "run all from my computer" option.
All is well and the users (domain users) are happily
typing away.
Load Office 2000 SR1 patch (dont get me started about
re-inserting the Office CD for this =\ ... ) and the
service pack completes successfully. All is well for
administrators, but the general user get the "1706" error,
even though in theory the ENTIRE distribution was loaded
via "run all from my computer" so there should be nothing
else left to load.
As a side note, I did some experiments because I didnt
remember this happening when our systems were all NT4. I
loaded Office 2000 and then the SR1 patch on one of the DCs
and graced a user account to log on locally and it worked
perfect. I joined an old Windows 98 platform to the
network, loaded Office 2000 and SP1 on it and experienced
no problems with this configuration. I also have a test
lan for deployment of Win2k Server/Exchange 2k/Win2k Pro
that has a few workstations tied to it. Same problem and
its a pure 2000 LAN!
NONE of the articles on technet helped, I tried them all
and flavors of them all with no luck. I am not ready to
shell out cash for dozens of copies of office XP when 2000
works fine without service packs. I'm beginning to think
that the service packs weren't thoroughly tested and I'm
guessing that previous comments I've seen are correct and
there are no plans to fix this.
I'm sure if there was a solution that worked that it isn't
being disclosed. A full week of searching old archives,
google group searches and searching all of technet (even 2
year old editions just in case!) have met with zero success.
If anybody has some light to shed I'd appreciate it. Just
don't ask me to add all the users to the "administrators"
group! =)
TIA,
Jeff