M
Martin Liversage
I'm not sure how interesting this piece of information is to the public at
large, but I wanted to whare it anyway.
Today I tried to update Office 2003 Pro using Office Update. During the
installation it prompted me for the cd-rom which I inserted. However, even
though the file SKU011.CAB was clearly visible on the cd-rom the installer
still complained that the file was missing. I then searched the net and saw
that I was not the only one having this problem.
After a while I finally solved my problem. The security settings on my
C-drive prevents me from creating new directories in the root directory, and
the installer apparently wanted to create C:\MSOCache. So if you don't have
this directory and can't create it yourself you cannot patch Office 2003.
<rant>I haven't checked the Windows logo requirements lately, but I find it
hard to believe that an application that needs to create a directory in the
root directory doesn't violate these logo requirements. I hope that somebody
working on the next version of Office reads this. ;^) And then please tell
your colleague on the Windows Update team that C:\WUTemp is just as bad. ;^)
During the years so many sloppy application developers outside MS just
couldn't stay out of C:\, but is that strange considering that MS has the
same problem?</rant>
large, but I wanted to whare it anyway.
Today I tried to update Office 2003 Pro using Office Update. During the
installation it prompted me for the cd-rom which I inserted. However, even
though the file SKU011.CAB was clearly visible on the cd-rom the installer
still complained that the file was missing. I then searched the net and saw
that I was not the only one having this problem.
After a while I finally solved my problem. The security settings on my
C-drive prevents me from creating new directories in the root directory, and
the installer apparently wanted to create C:\MSOCache. So if you don't have
this directory and can't create it yourself you cannot patch Office 2003.
<rant>I haven't checked the Windows logo requirements lately, but I find it
hard to believe that an application that needs to create a directory in the
root directory doesn't violate these logo requirements. I hope that somebody
working on the next version of Office reads this. ;^) And then please tell
your colleague on the Windows Update team that C:\WUTemp is just as bad. ;^)
During the years so many sloppy application developers outside MS just
couldn't stay out of C:\, but is that strange considering that MS has the
same problem?</rant>