Office March Update KB905756 Error #1646

[Chad Harris]

Gerry --

I don't use the bungling Office Update site much, or MSFT Update eithr for
that matter even with the new BITS. I get advanced notice of the updates
through Technet's service, and click on the links and install from there.
I've tried everything to "optimize" to get it in. Normally I don't have any
trouble installing anything whether it uses the MSI, anything Office
partners with it, or 3rd party partners to the MSI. I'm sure somewhere I
could locate of Office log for the MSI, but then of course per the Redmond
campus Office setup teams' strong connection with the guys and girls on the
street, I'd probably have to send the log to someone like Sloan Crayton
since it would be written in Hex. I suppose the error log is somewhere in
this neighborhood:

"%TEMP%\LogFile.txt"

I wonder how these people would approach the error:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/trans/office/off0506.mspx

I know just like the checkout counters in Redmond and Belleview Washington,
all the gals staring into their cell phones in the grocery store parking
lots are getting ready to jabber in Hex.

One wonders if Vista or Office 12 plan to improve on the fairly worthless
error messages that exist now that are not of much use to people, even those
of us who have committed thousands of MSKBs to memory.

I appreciate Mary Sauer's suggestion of the KB below, and I'll do
everything I can to apply it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304498/en-us

Thanks,

Chad Harris

 

[Chad Harris]

Gerry --

I don't use the bungling Office Update site much, or MSFT Update eithr for
that matter even with the new BITS. I get advanced notice of the updates
through Technet's service, and click on the links and install from there.
I've tried everything to "optimize" to get it in. Normally I don't have any
trouble installing anything whether it uses the MSI, anything Office
partners with it, or 3rd party partners to the MSI. I'm sure somewhere I
could locate of Office log for the MSI, but then of course per the Redmond
campus Office setup teams' strong connection with the guys and girls on the
street, I'd probably have to send the log to someone like Sloan Crayton
since it would be written in Hex. I suppose the error log is somewhere in
this neighborhood:

"%TEMP%\LogFile.txt"

I wonder how these people would approach the error:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/trans/office/off0506.mspx

I know just like the checkout counters in Redmond and Belleview Washington,
all the gals staring into their cell phones in the grocery store parking
lots are getting ready to jabber in Hex.

One wonders if Vista or Office 12 plan to improve on the fairly worthless
error messages that exist now that are not of much use to people, even those
of us who have committed thousands of MSKBs to memory.

I appreciate Mary Sauer's suggestion of the KB below, and I'll do
everything I can to apply it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304498/en-us

Thanks,

Chad Harris

 

[Chad Harris]

Gerry --

I don't use the bungling Office Update site much, or MSFT Update eithr for
that matter even with the new BITS. I get advanced notice of the updates
through Technet's service, and click on the links and install from there.
I've tried everything to "optimize" to get it in. Normally I don't have any
trouble installing anything whether it uses the MSI, anything Office
partners with it, or 3rd party partners to the MSI. I'm sure somewhere I
could locate of Office log for the MSI, but then of course per the Redmond
campus Office setup teams' strong connection with the guys and girls on the
street, I'd probably have to send the log to someone like Sloan Crayton
since it would be written in Hex. I suppose the error log is somewhere in
this neighborhood:

"%TEMP%\LogFile.txt"

I wonder how these people would approach the error:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/trans/office/off0506.mspx

I know just like the checkout counters in Redmond and Belleview Washington,
all the gals staring into their cell phones in the grocery store parking
lots are getting ready to jabber in Hex.

One wonders if Vista or Office 12 plan to improve on the fairly worthless
error messages that exist now that are not of much use to people, even those
of us who have committed thousands of MSKBs to memory.

I appreciate Mary Sauer's suggestion of the KB below, and I'll do
everything I can to apply it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304498/en-us

Thanks,

Chad Harris

 

[Chad Harris]

Gerry --

I don't use the bungling Office Update site much, or MSFT Update eithr for
that matter even with the new BITS. I get advanced notice of the updates
through Technet's service, and click on the links and install from there.
I've tried everything to "optimize" to get it in. Normally I don't have any
trouble installing anything whether it uses the MSI, anything Office
partners with it, or 3rd party partners to the MSI. I'm sure somewhere I
could locate of Office log for the MSI, but then of course per the Redmond
campus Office setup teams' strong connection with the guys and girls on the
street, I'd probably have to send the log to someone like Sloan Crayton
since it would be written in Hex. I suppose the error log is somewhere in
this neighborhood:

"%TEMP%\LogFile.txt"

I wonder how these people would approach the error:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/trans/office/off0506.mspx

I know just like the checkout counters in Redmond and Belleview Washington,
all the gals staring into their cell phones in the grocery store parking
lots are getting ready to jabber in Hex.

One wonders if Vista or Office 12 plan to improve on the fairly worthless
error messages that exist now that are not of much use to people, even those
of us who have committed thousands of MSKBs to memory.

I appreciate Mary Sauer's suggestion of the KB below, and I'll do
everything I can to apply it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304498/en-us

Thanks,

Chad Harris

 

[Chad Harris]

Gerry --

I don't use the bungling Office Update site much, or MSFT Update eithr for
that matter even with the new BITS. I get advanced notice of the updates
through Technet's service, and click on the links and install from there.
I've tried everything to "optimize" to get it in. Normally I don't have any
trouble installing anything whether it uses the MSI, anything Office
partners with it, or 3rd party partners to the MSI. I'm sure somewhere I
could locate of Office log for the MSI, but then of course per the Redmond
campus Office setup teams' strong connection with the guys and girls on the
street, I'd probably have to send the log to someone like Sloan Crayton
since it would be written in Hex. I suppose the error log is somewhere in
this neighborhood:

"%TEMP%\LogFile.txt"

I wonder how these people would approach the error:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/trans/office/off0506.mspx

I know just like the checkout counters in Redmond and Belleview Washington,
all the gals staring into their cell phones in the grocery store parking
lots are getting ready to jabber in Hex.

One wonders if Vista or Office 12 plan to improve on the fairly worthless
error messages that exist now that are not of much use to people, even those
of us who have committed thousands of MSKBs to memory.

I appreciate Mary Sauer's suggestion of the KB below, and I'll do
everything I can to apply it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304498/en-us

Thanks,

Chad Harris

 

[Gerry Hickman]

Hi Chad,

Apologies, I had not seen you had quoted the error number in your original
post.

1646 is usually associated with trying to UNINSTALL a patch, so it's very
odd you are getting this error.

So you downloaded the patch, installed as an Administrator, accepted the
license and then got 1646??

Are you sure you have Excel 2003 SP1 or SP2 installed on your machine? Did
you try downloading the patch again?

 

[Gerry Hickman]

Hi Chad,

Apologies, I had not seen you had quoted the error number in your original
post.

1646 is usually associated with trying to UNINSTALL a patch, so it's very
odd you are getting this error.

So you downloaded the patch, installed as an Administrator, accepted the
license and then got 1646??

Are you sure you have Excel 2003 SP1 or SP2 installed on your machine? Did
you try downloading the patch again?

 

[Gerry Hickman]

Hi Chad,

Apologies, I had not seen you had quoted the error number in your original
post.

1646 is usually associated with trying to UNINSTALL a patch, so it's very
odd you are getting this error.

So you downloaded the patch, installed as an Administrator, accepted the
license and then got 1646??

Are you sure you have Excel 2003 SP1 or SP2 installed on your machine? Did
you try downloading the patch again?

 

[Gerry Hickman]

Hi Chad,

Apologies, I had not seen you had quoted the error number in your original
post.

1646 is usually associated with trying to UNINSTALL a patch, so it's very
odd you are getting this error.

So you downloaded the patch, installed as an Administrator, accepted the
license and then got 1646??

Are you sure you have Excel 2003 SP1 or SP2 installed on your machine? Did
you try downloading the patch again?

 

[Gerry Hickman]

Hi Chad,

Apologies, I had not seen you had quoted the error number in your original
post.

1646 is usually associated with trying to UNINSTALL a patch, so it's very
odd you are getting this error.

So you downloaded the patch, installed as an Administrator, accepted the
license and then got 1646??

Are you sure you have Excel 2003 SP1 or SP2 installed on your machine? Did
you try downloading the patch again?

 

[Gerry Hickman]

Hi Chad,

Apologies, I had not seen you had quoted the error number in your original
post.

1646 is usually associated with trying to UNINSTALL a patch, so it's very
odd you are getting this error.

So you downloaded the patch, installed as an Administrator, accepted the
license and then got 1646??

Are you sure you have Excel 2003 SP1 or SP2 installed on your machine? Did
you try downloading the patch again?

 

[Gerry Hickman]

Hi Chad,

Apologies, I had not seen you had quoted the error number in your original
post.

1646 is usually associated with trying to UNINSTALL a patch, so it's very
odd you are getting this error.

So you downloaded the patch, installed as an Administrator, accepted the
license and then got 1646??

Are you sure you have Excel 2003 SP1 or SP2 installed on your machine? Did
you try downloading the patch again?

 

[Gerry Hickman]

Hi Chad,

Apologies, I had not seen you had quoted the error number in your original
post.

1646 is usually associated with trying to UNINSTALL a patch, so it's very
odd you are getting this error.

So you downloaded the patch, installed as an Administrator, accepted the
license and then got 1646??

Are you sure you have Excel 2003 SP1 or SP2 installed on your machine? Did
you try downloading the patch again?