Upgrading to Office 2007 in Corporate Environment

[KACH]

Hello All,
I'm project lead on the upgrade of our Office system here from Office
20003 to 2007. For the last week I have had trouble installing the
application. I kept getting an error during the first part of the
installation claiming that a certain file on the installation DVD
could not be found. When I browse to the file, I get an "Invalid
Location" error.
That being said, I was able to resolve this issue: Our office PCs are
set-up with the archaic C/D drive partition, & setting the C-drive to
READ ONLY for non-admin users. Even if you are logged in as an Admin,
you will not be able to install Office 2007 unless the C drive rights
are changed to allow writing ability for all users. By "unlocking"
the
C-drive, I was able to successfully install the software.
Now, this is an over-all issue because the manpower required to
temporarily remove the C drive protection to install the application
would be ridiculous. And, by setting group policy to allow writing to
the C drive, I leave open some security holes (again, I understand
this is not the most efficient security system we have, but it is out
of my hands). So, I need to figure out which folder on the C drive is
being created &/or written to so that I can set group policy to allow
User write rights to that particular spot only.

Does anyone have any ideas?


If this does not make any sense, let me know & I can re-clarify.


Thanks much!


--J.

 

[Peter Foldes]

What is the error message as per verbatim. Very hard to help if guessing

 

[KACH]

What is the error message as per verbatim. Very hard to help if guessing

Hi Peter,
The whole message is: "Setup cannot find Office.en-us\OfficeLR.cab.
Browse to a valid installation source and then click ok." Then it
gives me a normal browsing window with the DVD as the default address
in "Folder". I browse to the folder "Office.en-us", & click OK, but
the message then reads "Invalid Location". I browse the DVD in Windows
Explorer, & sure enough, the offending file is there. (This issue
error message has been reported in quite a few places online.)
Though, keep in mind, the file that it is looking for in "Office.en-
us" changes almost every single time I try to install, so it is not
limited to "OfficeLR.cab". That was just one instance. There have been
about 15-20 other files listed in that error message depending on when
I try the installation. So, I don't think the actualy file that it is
seeking is the problem.
And, again, removing the READ-ONLY protection on the C drive resolves
the issue, so I''m trying to narrow it down to the proper location on
the C drive.

--J.