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John
When installing Office2003, any folder shortcuts to our Intranet sites,
usually stored in users' Favorites, gets a prompting for credentials to our
Intranet web (IIS 5 on a Win2003 server). It's really the Office patches part
of the install (after base Office 2003 install), in the form of .msp files
that's causing the issue. Of course, SMS2003 uses the NT\System account to
install Office2003.
When doing a File Monitor (filemon.exe), it's clear that the patch part of
the install is going through the user Favorites folder. When trying to access
the folder shortcuts in the Favorites folder, one is prompted for credentials
to the Intranet Web (the SMS sytem account cannot access IIS using Integrated
authentication...tries to do it via Anonymous, which we can't allow). The
prompting of credentials stops the install from completing properly. When
investigating, even if I (as admin) try and check the properties of this web
folder shortcut, I get prompted for credentials if I don't have rights to the
target site.
Is there a way to make the Office patches come down via SMS without the
msiexec probing the user's Favorites links, which is what ends up causing the
IIS credentials prompting? Is it because I'm using .msp's to push the patches
down, and I should be doing it another way? Thanks!
usually stored in users' Favorites, gets a prompting for credentials to our
Intranet web (IIS 5 on a Win2003 server). It's really the Office patches part
of the install (after base Office 2003 install), in the form of .msp files
that's causing the issue. Of course, SMS2003 uses the NT\System account to
install Office2003.
When doing a File Monitor (filemon.exe), it's clear that the patch part of
the install is going through the user Favorites folder. When trying to access
the folder shortcuts in the Favorites folder, one is prompted for credentials
to the Intranet Web (the SMS sytem account cannot access IIS using Integrated
authentication...tries to do it via Anonymous, which we can't allow). The
prompting of credentials stops the install from completing properly. When
investigating, even if I (as admin) try and check the properties of this web
folder shortcut, I get prompted for credentials if I don't have rights to the
target site.
Is there a way to make the Office patches come down via SMS without the
msiexec probing the user's Favorites links, which is what ends up causing the
IIS credentials prompting? Is it because I'm using .msp's to push the patches
down, and I should be doing it another way? Thanks!