Office 2007 Set-up in corporate environment

[jkhachad]

Hello All,
I'm project lead on the upgrade of our Office system here from Office
20003 to 2007. For the last week I have had trouble installing the
application. I kept getting an error during the first part of the
installation claiming that a certain file on the installation DVD
could not be found. When I browse to the file, I get an "Invalid
Location" error.
That being said, I was able to resolve this issue: Our office PCs are
set-up with the archaic C/D drive partition, & setting the C-drive to
READ ONLY for non-admin users. Even if you are logged in as an Admin,
you will not be able to install Office 2007 unless the C drive rights
are changed to allow writing ability for all users. By "unlocking" the
C-drive, I was able to successfully install the software.
Now, this is an over-all issue because the manpower required to
temporarily remove the C drive protection to install the application
would be ridiculous. And, by setting group policy to allow writing to
the C drive, I leave open some security holes (again, I understand
this is not the most efficient security system we have, but it is out
of my hands). So, I need to figure out which folder on the C drive is
being created &/or written to so that I can set group policy to allow
User write rights to that particular spot only.

Does anyone have any ideas?

If this does not make any sense, let me know & I can re-clarify.

Thanks much!

--J.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Please do not multipost. If needed then crosspost instead

http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

As per your other post the answer is Post the exact error message

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi J.,

You may want to review the information on this in the Microsoft Office 2007 Resource kit,
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179140.aspx on elevated permissions.

The actual installation of Office 2007 is done from the Local Installation Source (\MSOCache folder) after that folder is created on
the individual PC. The folder is created in the same drive as the \Program Files\ entry for Office. In addition, Office setup
writes files to the registry and to both the Windows folders and the \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft shared.
In addition, Office writes a let of temporary files during installation so be sure you have your TEMP= and TMP= system variables
pointed to a location that is neither write or deletion protected.

The permissions required for running Office are listed in this article.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/277867/en-us?FR=1

==========Hello All,
I'm project lead on the upgrade of our Office system here from Office
20003 to 2007. For the last week I have had trouble installing the
application. I kept getting an error during the first part of the
installation claiming that a certain file on the installation DVD
could not be found. When I browse to the file, I get an "Invalid
Location" error.
That being said, I was able to resolve this issue: Our office PCs are
set-up with the archaic C/D drive partition, & setting the C-drive to
READ ONLY for non-admin users. Even if you are logged in as an Admin,
you will not be able to install Office 2007 unless the C drive rights
are changed to allow writing ability for all users. By "unlocking" the
C-drive, I was able to successfully install the software.
Now, this is an over-all issue because the manpower required to
temporarily remove the C drive protection to install the application
would be ridiculous. And, by setting group policy to allow writing to
the C drive, I leave open some security holes (again, I understand
this is not the most efficient security system we have, but it is out
of my hands). So, I need to figure out which folder on the C drive is
being created &/or written to so that I can set group policy to allow
User write rights to that particular spot only.

Does anyone have any ideas?

If this does not make any sense, let me know & I can re-clarify.

Thanks much!

--J. >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*