SBFM98: "Setup Does Not Support Being Run in This Mode"

• Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager for Microsoft Excel 97, included with:
  • Microsoft Office 97 Small Business Edition for Windows, version 2.0

SYMPTOMS

When you perform an administrative installation (setup /a) of Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager 98 for Microsoft Excel 97 (SBFM), you receive the following error message:

Setup does not support being run in this mode.

Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager Setup was not completed successfully.

CAUSE

By design, you cannot run Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager from a network server. Therefore you cannot perform an administrative installation by using the setup /a command.

RESOLUTION

Although the Setup program does not include a special network installation mode, you can distribute Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager over a network provided that you have obtained the appropriate licenses to do so. To do distribute it over a network server, follow these steps:

1. On the network server, create a folder called SBFM.



2. Copy the contents of the SBFM folder on Disc 1 of Microsoft Office 97 Small Business Edition for Windows to the SBFM folder on the network server.



3. Connect to the network share from the workstation on which you want to install Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager.
   
   NOTE: Each workstation must have a local installation of Microsoft Excel version 97 for Windows, Service Release 1 (SR-1).
   
   For additional information about SR-1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   Q172475 OFF97: How to Obtain and Install MS Office 97 SR-1




4. Start the Setup program from the workstation by double-clicking the Setup.exe file that is in the SBFM folder.

STATUS

This behavior is by design of Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager 98 for Microsoft Excel 97.

MORE INFORMATION

Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager also requires that Microsoft Excel 97 is installed on the local hard disk.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q184107 SBFM98: Current Version of MS Excel Does Not Support SBFM

Additional query words: sbfm sbfm98 run form network server admin

Keywords : kbnetwork kbdta xlsbfm
Version : WINDOWS:
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb