Office 2000: Admin OK, User gets "Error Applying Transform"

Gerry Hickman · Jul 31, 2005

Hi Evadne,

hand the times when a clean installation is necessary. An upgrade is nearly
*always* preferable to a clean installation.

If you check out the Microsoft "setup and deployment" newsgroups, the
guys on there do big network roll-outs of Windows, custom builds etc. I
think you'll find few people agree with you. As I said above, you should
never upgrade Windows, this is a recipe for subtle problems down the
line, not to menion lack of a baseline DLL manifest, mismatched LSA and
you can't run a differencing engine against the registry (again no
baseline).

Gerry Hickman · Jul 31, 2005

Hi Evadne,

hand the times when a clean installation is necessary. An upgrade is nearly
*always* preferable to a clean installation.

If you check out the Microsoft "setup and deployment" newsgroups, the
guys on there do big network roll-outs of Windows, custom builds etc. I
think you'll find few people agree with you. As I said above, you should
never upgrade Windows, this is a recipe for subtle problems down the
line, not to menion lack of a baseline DLL manifest, mismatched LSA and
you can't run a differencing engine against the registry (again no
baseline).

Gerry Hickman · Jul 31, 2005

Hi Evadne,

hand the times when a clean installation is necessary. An upgrade is nearly
*always* preferable to a clean installation.

If you check out the Microsoft "setup and deployment" newsgroups, the
guys on there do big network roll-outs of Windows, custom builds etc. I
think you'll find few people agree with you. As I said above, you should
never upgrade Windows, this is a recipe for subtle problems down the
line, not to menion lack of a baseline DLL manifest, mismatched LSA and
you can't run a differencing engine against the registry (again no
baseline).

Gerry Hickman · Jul 31, 2005

Hi Evadne,

hand the times when a clean installation is necessary. An upgrade is nearly
*always* preferable to a clean installation.

If you check out the Microsoft "setup and deployment" newsgroups, the
guys on there do big network roll-outs of Windows, custom builds etc. I
think you'll find few people agree with you. As I said above, you should
never upgrade Windows, this is a recipe for subtle problems down the
line, not to menion lack of a baseline DLL manifest, mismatched LSA and
you can't run a differencing engine against the registry (again no
baseline).

Gerry Hickman · Jul 31, 2005

Hi Evadne,

hand the times when a clean installation is necessary. An upgrade is nearly
*always* preferable to a clean installation.

If you check out the Microsoft "setup and deployment" newsgroups, the
guys on there do big network roll-outs of Windows, custom builds etc. I
think you'll find few people agree with you. As I said above, you should
never upgrade Windows, this is a recipe for subtle problems down the
line, not to menion lack of a baseline DLL manifest, mismatched LSA and
you can't run a differencing engine against the registry (again no
baseline).

Gerry Hickman · Jul 31, 2005

Hi Evadne,

hand the times when a clean installation is necessary. An upgrade is nearly
*always* preferable to a clean installation.

If you check out the Microsoft "setup and deployment" newsgroups, the
guys on there do big network roll-outs of Windows, custom builds etc. I
think you'll find few people agree with you. As I said above, you should
never upgrade Windows, this is a recipe for subtle problems down the
line, not to menion lack of a baseline DLL manifest, mismatched LSA and
you can't run a differencing engine against the registry (again no
baseline).

Gerry Hickman · Jul 31, 2005

Hi Evadne,

hand the times when a clean installation is necessary. An upgrade is nearly
*always* preferable to a clean installation.

If you check out the Microsoft "setup and deployment" newsgroups, the
guys on there do big network roll-outs of Windows, custom builds etc. I
think you'll find few people agree with you. As I said above, you should
never upgrade Windows, this is a recipe for subtle problems down the
line, not to menion lack of a baseline DLL manifest, mismatched LSA and
you can't run a differencing engine against the registry (again no
baseline).

Gerry Hickman · Jul 31, 2005

Hi Evadne,

hand the times when a clean installation is necessary. An upgrade is nearly
*always* preferable to a clean installation.

If you check out the Microsoft "setup and deployment" newsgroups, the
guys on there do big network roll-outs of Windows, custom builds etc. I
think you'll find few people agree with you. As I said above, you should
never upgrade Windows, this is a recipe for subtle problems down the
line, not to menion lack of a baseline DLL manifest, mismatched LSA and
you can't run a differencing engine against the registry (again no
baseline).

Gerry Hickman · Jul 31, 2005

Hi Evadne,

HUH?!? As you explained *what* above?! You didn't explain anything, just
spouted some BS about always performing a clean installation...