Office Update aborts while searching for available updates

  • Thread starter Michael Jørgensen
  • Start date
M

Michael Jørgensen

Hi,

[Copied from microsoft.public.office.setup, since this appears to be a more
appropriate news group.]

I've just re-installed Office XP on my Windows 98 SE machine. Now I want the
latest updates from office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ and so I press the
"Check for updates" button, but the progress bar stops at 40%, and then a
new page is shown: "The Office Update Catalog cannot be displayed".

While the status bar was progressing, the browser (IE6) reported an error in
line 699 of
http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/mainCatalog.aspx?CTT=98. Something
about the automation-server cannot create the object. [Sorry, but the error
message was in Danish].

This error is reproducible, and I don't know any workaround. I've installed
all the available Windows 98 updates. I even tried to reinstall Windows 98
SE from scratch again, and the same problem remains.

This has always worked previously using the same machine. The only new thing
is that I recently reinstalled Windows 98 SE from scratch (incl. formatting
my
harddrive).

It's possible to browse the available downloads, but I have difficulty
determining, which downloads are applicable and/or necessary to my system.

I like the Office Update, because it is automated and easy to use.

I hope someone has some good advise. Thanks in advance.

-Michael.
 
M

Michael Jørgensen

Michael Jørgensen said:
Hi,

[Copied from microsoft.public.office.setup, since this appears to be a more
appropriate news group.]

Sorry about this second post. I was trying to reach
microsoft.public.officeupdate.

-Michael.
 
M

Michael Jørgensen

Michael Jørgensen said:
Hi,

[Copied from microsoft.public.office.setup, since this appears to be a more
appropriate news group.]

Sorry about this second post. I was trying to reach
microsoft.public.officeupdate.

-Michael.
 
M

Michael Jørgensen

Michael Jørgensen said:
Hi,

[Copied from microsoft.public.office.setup, since this appears to be a more
appropriate news group.]

Sorry about this second post. I was trying to reach
microsoft.public.officeupdate.

-Michael.
 
M

Michael Jørgensen

Michael Jørgensen said:
Hi,

[Copied from microsoft.public.office.setup, since this appears to be a more
appropriate news group.]

Sorry about this second post. I was trying to reach
microsoft.public.officeupdate.

-Michael.
 
M

Michael Jørgensen

Michael Jørgensen said:
Hi,

[Copied from microsoft.public.office.setup, since this appears to be a more
appropriate news group.]

Sorry about this second post. I was trying to reach
microsoft.public.officeupdate.

-Michael.
 
M

Michael Jørgensen

Michael Jørgensen said:
Hi,

[Copied from microsoft.public.office.setup, since this appears to be a more
appropriate news group.]

Sorry about this second post. I was trying to reach
microsoft.public.officeupdate.

-Michael.
 
M

Michael Jørgensen

Michael Jørgensen said:
Hi,

[Copied from microsoft.public.office.setup, since this appears to be a more
appropriate news group.]

Sorry about this second post. I was trying to reach
microsoft.public.officeupdate.

-Michael.
 
M

Michael Jørgensen

Michael Jørgensen said:
Hi,

[Copied from microsoft.public.office.setup, since this appears to be a more
appropriate news group.]

Sorry about this second post. I was trying to reach
microsoft.public.officeupdate.

-Michael.
 
M

Michael Jørgensen

Michael Jørgensen said:
Hi,

[Copied from microsoft.public.office.setup, since this appears to be a more
appropriate news group.]

Sorry about this second post. I was trying to reach
microsoft.public.officeupdate.

-Michael.
 
P

piotr

Exactly the same problem. I have office 2003 installed over XP. Goes up to
40% and the same message. Any suggestions?
 
P

piotr

Exactly the same problem. I have office 2003 installed over XP. Goes up to
40% and the same message. Any suggestions?
 
P

piotr

Exactly the same problem. I have office 2003 installed over XP. Goes up to
40% and the same message. Any suggestions?
 
P

piotr

Exactly the same problem. I have office 2003 installed over XP. Goes up to
40% and the same message. Any suggestions?
 
P

piotr

Exactly the same problem. I have office 2003 installed over XP. Goes up to
40% and the same message. Any suggestions?
 
P

piotr

Exactly the same problem. I have office 2003 installed over XP. Goes up to
40% and the same message. Any suggestions?
 
P

piotr

Exactly the same problem. I have office 2003 installed over XP. Goes up to
40% and the same message. Any suggestions?
 
P

piotr

Exactly the same problem. I have office 2003 installed over XP. Goes up to
40% and the same message. Any suggestions?
 
P

piotr

Exactly the same problem. I have office 2003 installed over XP. Goes up to
40% and the same message. Any suggestions?
 
C

Chad Harris

Piotr and Michael--

You can get the downoads from here. I'm not sure but I think this issue is
going to be fixed with MSI 3.0 available in Windows XP SP2 when it RTMs to
the web around and about August 25 via Windows Update. Meanwhile, you can
access the updates directly and easily from here:

Downloads for Office 2003:

http://office.microsoft.com/officeu...ID=CD010224941033&CTT=4&Origin=ES790020041033



Best,

Chad Harris
________________________________________________________

Exactly the same problem. I have office 2003 installed over XP. Goes up to
40% and the same message. Any suggestions?
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Top