Office Update is unable to check for updates

[yellow98gti]

I'm getting the error below. This is a brand new laptop. I have tried
completely uninstalling Office 2003 and gone through the entire artice here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304498. No luck so
far, please help.


Office Update is unable to check for updates

The Office Update site is unable to check for updates on this computer. This
may be happening because of one of the following reasons:

· You do not have administrative privileges for this computer.
· There is a network problem and the detection catalog used by the Office
Update site failed to download. Go back to the Downloads home page and try
running detection again.
· Windows Installer patch files (.MSP files) from previously applied Office
updates are missing from the \Windows\Installer hidden directory on your
computer. MSP files are stored on your computer after update installation
completes because they need to be referenced for future update operations. If
the files are missing you will not be able to apply Office updates. You may
also be unable to uninstall Office products as a result of the same problem.
Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services for assistance.
· You installed Office updates in the past and then upgraded from Windows
Installer version 1.0 to Windows Installer version 1.1.

 

[brummybird]

Hi Yellow98gti,

The following was posted on another newsgroup but it worked for me, however,
this is a manual process and I need to do it on 400 P.C's so if anybody out
there can find another way then please let me know.

Thank you
Regards,
Lyndsey