- To install Office from the
network
- To install Office from the Office CD
These methods of installing Office are described in the following
sections.
Installing Office from the Network
To install Office throughout your organization from a network
server, you must have an Office 97 user license for each
user in your organization. A network installation involves this
twostep process:
- First, you create the administrative
installation point, the set of folders that contains
all the Office program files. This folder must be located on a
server to which users can connect.
- Second, users
run Setup from the administrative installation point to install
Office on their computers.
Creating an administrative installation point involves more than
copying files from the Office CD to a server. Some or all of the
Office program files can be shared from the administrative installation
point. Shared Office applications, such as Clip Gallery, can be
installed in a separate folder or even on a different server to
allow for more flexibility in sharing Office components.
Tip You
can modify the administrative installation point to control the
way users install Office. For more information about customizing
an administrative installation point, see Chapter 6, "Customizing
Client Installations."
You use Setup to create the administrative installation point,
and your users use the same Setup program to install Office; however,
Setup runs in a different way for each of these tasks. In the
following sections, these two Setup modes are referred to as follows:
- Administrative
Setup is run once to create the administrative installation
point. Run Setup from the Office CD with the /a commandline
option
- Client Setup is run
when a user installs Office on a client computer from the administrative
installation point.
Creating the Administrative Installation Point
To create the administrative installation point, first select
the server and prepare it, making sure that there is enough disk
space and that there are no viruses. Then install the Office program
files on the server.
The administrative installation point contains two folders:
- Main Office folder
This folder contains the Office Setup program (Setup.exe)
as well as folders containing all the Office program files. The
default folder name is MSOffice.
- Shared applications
folder
This folder contains other program files used by more
than one Office application. The default folder name is MSAPPS.
The shared applications include the following: the spelling checker, WordArt,
Microsoft Organization Chart, Microsoft Graph 5.0, Microsoft System
Information, Microsoft Clip Gallery 3.0, graphics filters, text
converters, and Excel sheet converters.
When you perform an administrative installation, Setup asks where
you want these folders copied. Store them on a server so that
users have access to them. You can store them on the same server
or on two different servers. Later, when a user installs Office,
Setup looks for the shared files at this location on the server.
Server Preparation
The steps required to prepare the administrative installation
point on the server are described in the following table.
| Task | Description
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| Make sure that there is sufficient disk space.
| Office Standard needs about 280 MB for the administrative installation; Office Professional needs about 325 MB.
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| Make sure you have access to the folders.
| You need read, write, delete, and create permissions to complete the administrative installation.
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| Make sure that all Office folders are empty.
| If a previous version of Office exists, move any custom templates you want to save to another location, and then delete the Office files.
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| Make sure all users are logged off, and prevent network user access to the folders during the administrative installation.
| You also must prevent access by users sharing applications or running shared Windows from this server.
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| Disable virus detection software.
| This prevents erroneous virus detection triggers as Setup writes into various executable files.
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| Make sure the server is running the correct version of Windows.
| To run Setup, you need Windows 95, Windows NT Workstation version 3.51 or later, or Windows NT Server version 3.51 or later.
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| Create and share the folder that contains the administrative installation point.
| The shared folder will contain the folders created when you run administrative Setup. You can share this folder before or after running administrative Setup.
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| Set the appropriate permissions for the shared folder that contains the administrative installation point, and for the folders created by running administrative Setup.
| Perform this task after running administrative Setup. For more information, see "Sharing and Security Permissions" later in this chapter.
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 | Tools and Utilities The Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities include the file Top10.doc.
This document describes how to prepare the server and client computers
for installing Office in more detail. See "Microsoft Technical Support Documents" in Appendix A,
"Microsoft Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities."
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- To have users run shared applications over the network, click Server.
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To install shared applications on each user's hard
disk, click Local Hard Drive.
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To allow users to choose where to install shared applications
during client Setup, click User's Choice.
Setup checks for available disk space on the server and then copies
all the Office files from the Office CD to the administrative
installation point. Users can now run client Setup from this administrative
installation point and install Office on their computers, based
on the options you select while setting up the administrative
installation point.
This level of customizing is sufficient for many installations,
but there are additional elements of the client installation process
that you can customize. For a description of all the ways you
can modify the administrative installation point, see Chapter 6,
"Customizing
Client Installations."
Sharing and Security Permissions
After you run administrative Setup, you need to set the appropriate permissions for the shared folder that contains the administrative installation point, and for the folders created by running administrative Setup.
On Windows NT Server, there are two kinds of permissions: sharing permissions and security permissions. Sharing permissions determine the access available to users in folders shared across the network. This is the only file-system security available for drives formatted with the FAT file system. Security permissions provide additional control for folders and files, but security permissions are available only for folders and files on drives formatted with the NTFS file system.
Sharing permissions also determine the maximum level of security permissions available to users when they open folders and files within the shared folder. For example, if you set sharing permissions for a shared folder to Read, and then set security permissions for a folder within the shared folder to Add & Read, users accessing the contained folder from the shared folder are still restricted to Read permissions. The Add & Read permissions setting for the contained folder applies only to users who log on to the server directly (not through the network).
If you want network users to have Add & Read security permissions for the contained folder, you must set permissions for the shared folder to Add & Read or higher. Setting less restrictive sharing permissions does not override more restrictive security permissions set for folders and files contained in shared folders.
For More Information about Windows NT Server file and folder permissions, see the Windows NT Server manual, Windows NT Server Concepts and Planning, available in the Online Books folder of your Windows NT installation directory.
The interaction between sharing permissions and security permissions does not affect users of Office Standard Edition, or users of Office Professional Edition who do not choose the Run from Network Server installation. In these cases, setting both sharing and security permissions to Read is sufficient for all users.
However, for users of Office Professional Edition who choose the Run from Network Server installation, you must set appropriate sharing and security permissions: For example, Access users need Change permissions (the set of read, write, execute, and delete permissions) for the Workdir folder to run Access wizards from the server.
The following procedures describe how to set permissions for networks running Windows NT Server. If you are using another network operating system, set read-only permissions for all folders and files created when you run administrative Setup for users of Office Standard Edition, or for users of Office Professional Edition who do not choose the Run from Network Server installation. For users of Office Professional Edition who choose the Run from Network Server installation, you must set permissions for the Workdir folder so that users can read, write, and create files in that folder.
To set sharing permissions for the folder that contains the administrative installation point
- In Windows NT Server 4.0, click the Sharing tab on the folder property sheet, and then click the Permissions button.
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In Windows NT Server 3.51, select the folder, click Share As on the File Manager Disk menu, and then click the Permissions button.
- For users of Office Standard Edition, or for users of Office Professional Edition who do not choose the Run from Network Server installation, set Read permissions for the Everyone group (or for the groups that use Office).
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For users of Office Professional Edition who choose the Run from Network Server installation, set Change permissions for the Everyone group (or for the groups that use Access).
You must also set security permissions for the folders that are created within the shared folder when you run administrative Setup.
To set security permissions for the folders created when you run administrative Setup
- In Windows NT Server 4.0, right-click the MSOffice folder, click the Security tab on the folder property sheet, and then click the Permissions button. (The Security tab is available only if the folders are located on an NTFS volume.)
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In Windows NT Server 3.51, select the MSOffice folder, and then click Permissions on the File Manager Security menu. (The Permissions command is available only if the folders are located on an NTFS volume.)
- In the Directory Permissions box, select the Replace Permissions on Subdirectories and Replace Permissions on Existing File check boxes, and then set Read permissions for the Everyone group (or for the groups that use Office).
- Repeat Step 1 and Step 2 for the MSApps folder.
- For users of Office Professional Edition who choose the Run from Network Server installation, select the Workdir folder (which is in the MSOffice folder), and then set Change permissions for the Everyone group (or for the groups that use Access).
| | Tools and Utilities Users can encounter sharing conflicts when running Access wizards from a network server. To avoid this problem without setting Change permissions in the Workdir folder, you can modify the STF file so that Access wizard files are copied to users' hard disks. The Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities include the file AcWizard.doc that describes how to modify the STF file in this way. See "Advanced Documentation" in Appendix A, "Microsoft Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities."
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- To run shared applications over the network, click Server. Setup
configures your system to point to the server share.
– or –
To install shared applications on your hard disk,
click Local Hard Drive, and then enter a folder name. Setup copies
shared application files to that folder.
Next, Setup asks for the installation to use.
To
select the type of installation
- To install a predefined set of the commonly used Office components,
click Typical.
– or –
To select from a list of all the available Office
features and components, click Custom.
– or –
To leave the main Office program files on the server
and run them from the network, click Run from Network Server.
For More Information about the options included with each installation, see Appendix D, "List
of Installed Components."
| | Tools and Utilities The
Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities include the Setup Simulator,
a series of HTML pages that guide you through the interactive
client Setup process without copying any files or changing any
system settings. For more information, see "Setup Simulator" in Appendix A, "Microsoft
Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities."
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- Microsoft Office Binder
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Access (Professional Edition only)
- Microsoft Outlook
- Web Page Authoring (HTML)
- Data Access
- Office Tools
- Converters and Filters
- Getting Results Book
To view a list of additional options for each of these main options,
select the one you want, and then click Change Option.
Another window appears, with another set of check boxes. For example,
when you select the Microsoft Word option and click Change
Option, Setup displays the following list of options for Word:
- Microsoft Word Program Files
- Help
- Wizards and Templates
- Proofing Tools
- Address Book
- Word Mail in Exchange
- Text Converters
Each of these options may have additional options. If so, the
Change Option button is available when the option is selected.
You can select all or only some of a set of additional components:
- If a check box is selected,
all of that option's additional components are selected.
- If
a check box is cleared, none of that option's additional components
are selected.
- If a check box is grayed, some
of that option's additional components are selected. Click Change
Option to see what those components are.
The Select All button allows you to select all the options
displayed in the active window, along with all their additional
components. For some options, you can also change the folder in
which the component is installed. If the folder can be changed,
the Change Folder button is available.
Note If
you are running Windows NT Workstation 3.51, Setup also
asks for the Program Group for the program icons after you have
finished selecting installation options.
After you select all the installation options you want, Setup
checks for available disk space and begins copying files. If Setup
determines that there is not enough disk space for all the options
you have selected, you can do one of two things:
- You can specify a different
destination folder for some components and install them on another
hard disk. However, if you change the folder for every component,
Setup still installs some files in the original Office folder
you specified.
- You can exit and restart Setup,
specifying an Office folder on a different hard disk.
Installing Office from the Office CD
To install Office throughout your organization from the Office
CD, you must either purchase a copy of Office 97 for each
user in your organization; or (if you have multiple licenses)
copy the CD to a server and have users run Setup from there. The
procedures in this section describe each scenario.
To install Office from the Office CD
- Insert the Office CD into the CDROM drive.
- In Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 4.0, doubleclick Setup in Windows Explorer; or click Run on the Start menu and type drive:\setup where drive
is the letter of the CDROM drive.
– or –
In Windows NT Workstation 3.51, doubleclick
Setup in File Manager; or click Run on the Program Manager File
menu and type drive:\setup
- Follow the instructions on the screen.
If needed, give instructions about running Setup to
your users before they install Office. Users can also get help
while running Setup by pressing F1 or clicking the Help button.
- Choose an installation type by clicking Typical, Custom,
or Run from CD.
For a complete description of Office Setup and installation options,
see "Running Setup on Client Computers" earlier in this
chapter.
If you have a large number of users and multiple licenses, you
can share the Office CD with a CDROM drive located on a
network server, or you can copy the files from the CD to the server.
Users can then run Setup from the server; Setup functions
the same as it does when run from the CD (except that users cannot
choose the Run from CD installation).
The advantage of sharing the CD on a server, instead of creating
an administrative installation point, is that this method takes
less server disk space because the shared files are not duplicated.
However, it is less flexible and provides less opportunity for
customizing. For information about creating an administrative
installation point, see "Installing
Office from the Network" earlier in this chapter.
To copy CD contents to a server
- Create a folder on the server.
The server must have enough space for the entire contents
of the CD. Office Standard Edition for Windows requires about
330 MB; Office Professional Edition, about 630 MB.
- Copy
all the files from the CD to the folder on the server.
- Make
the server available to users.
Users can now connect to the server, open the folder, and run
Setup as if they were installing directly from the Office CD.
Installing Office from Floppy Disks
If you are a Select CD customer, you can create a set of Office 97
floppy disks from the Select CD. For more information, see your
Select CD documentation.
If you have multiple licenses, you can install Office throughout
your organization from floppy disks either by creating multiple sets
of disks from your Select CD, or by copying the floppy disks to
a server and having users run Setup from there. The procedures
in this section describe each scenario.
To
install Office from floppy disks
- Insert Disk 1 into the
client computer disk drive.
- In Windows 95
or Windows NT Workstation 4.0, doubleclick Setup
in Windows Explorer; or click Run on the Start menu and
type drive:\setup
– or –
In Windows NT Workstation 3.51, doubleclick
Setup in File Manager; or click Run on the Program Manager File
menu and type drive:\setup
- Follow the instructions
on the screen.
If needed, give instructions about running Setup to
your users before they install Office. Users can also get help
while running Setup by pressing F1 or clicking the Help button.
- Choose
an installation type by clicking Typical or Custom.
For a complete description of Office Setup and installation options,
see "Running Setup on Client Computers" earlier in this
chapter.
If you have a large number of users and multiple licenses, you
can copy the Office disks to a server. Users can then run Setup
from the server; Setup functions the same as it does when
run from the floppy disks, except that it does not prompt users
to insert each disk.
The advantage of copying the floppy disks to a server, rather
than creating an administrative installation point, is that this
method takes less server disk space, because the files are compressed.
However, it is much less flexible and provides little opportunity
for customizing. For information about creating an administrative
installation point, see "Installing
Office from the Network" earlier in this chapter.
Because of the special compressed format of the Office floppy
disks, you cannot use the Windows Explorer or MSDOS® Copy
command to copy the files from the floppy disk to a server. Instead,
you must use the Extract program included on the Office Setup
disk (Disk 1). For more information about Office floppy disks,
see "Office Floppy Disks Use a Compressed Format" later
in this chapter.
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Tools and Utilities
The Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities include copies of these files: Extract, Wextra32 (a program similar to Extract that runs on Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation), and two MS-DOS batch files (CopyAll.bat and CopyDisk.bat) that run Extract to copy the contents of the Office floppy disk set to a server folder. For more information, For more information, see "Tools for Extracting and Copying Files from Office Floppy Disks" in Appendix A, "Microsoft Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities."
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- Run the Microsoft Office Installer program.
Microsoft Office Installer supports two options: Easy Install and Custom Install.
| This installation option | Contains
|
| Easy Install
| The Excel, PowerPoint, and Word components most Office users are likely to use regularly.
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| Custom Install
| Whatever Office components you select, except for Value Pack components and the Outlook Express e-mail program.
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Microsoft Office Installer also includes a Remove option, which uninstalls Office 98. For more information, see "Uninstalling Office 98" later in this section.
- Use the Drag-and-drop method to copy the Microsoft Office 98 folder from the Office CD or a network drive to a hard disk.
Drag-and-drop refers to literally dragging the Microsoft Office 98 folder from the Office CD or a network drive to a hard disk. You can use the drag-and-drop method to copy either the folder that corresponds to an Easy installation, or the folder that corresponds to a Complete installation.
| Drag this folder | For this type of installation
|
| Microsoft Office 98 at the root of the Office CD
| Easy
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| Office Custom Install:Microsoft Office 98
| Complete
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Drag-and-drop installation requires one additional step to complete the Office installation. The first time any Office application is run, Office copies several required files into the System Folder on the local hard disk. This process is referred to as First Run Installation. First Run Installation may take several minutes to complete, but after it is finished it is not normally required again and thereafter Office applications start more quickly.
One benefit of First Run Installation is that if Office detects that any required files are missing from the local System Folder, it copies them from the Microsoft Office 98 folder. This gives Office a high level of resiliency; if the user inadvertently removes required Office files from the System Folder, Office replaces the missing files the next time an Office application is started.
First Run Installation also allows Office 98 to resume working in the event a user performs a Clean System Install when upgrading to a new release of the Mac OS. Other changes to a hard disk, such as changing its name, do not prevent Office from recovering. Moving the entire Microsoft Office 98 folder around on a hard disk likewise does not affect Office. However, you should not alter the folder structure within the Microsoft Office 98 folder.
| | Tools and Utilities The Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities include the workbook Macoff98.xls. The worksheets in this workbook list the Office 98 files installed by different installation options. For more information, see "Informational Workbook for the Macintosh" in Appendix A, "Microsoft Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities."
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- Office CD
This media choice requires a CD-ROM drive, and it requires the installer to be physically present at the client computer.
- Network
Installing from a network server simplifies the distribution of Office to users. However, it requires a network connection during installation and, if you share Office files over the network, continuous network access while Office is running on the client computer.
Running Office from the Office CD or a Network
Office 98 can be run directly from the Office CD or from a network drive, but with lesser performance than when run locally. When running an Office application from the Office CD or a network drive, the system must preload the application and all shared libraries from the CD or network drive into memory before it can run. What this means for the user is that the application starts very slowly. However, once the application is running, it should perform normally.
When an Office 98 application is initially run directly from the Office CD or from a network drive, First Run Installation copies Office system files to the System Folder, and creates Preference files in the System Folder:Preferences folder. After that's completed, the application starts normally. When the application is subsequently run, First Run Installation is not repeated so start-up time improves.
Customizing Client Installations
The following strategy is recommended for creating customized client installations:
- Use the Custom Install option in Microsoft Office Installer to create a custom Office installation point on a network drive. Choose the applications and options you want in Microsoft Office Installer.
- (Optional) Copy the file Microsoft Office 98 from the Office CD to clear the user and organization name on the network installation point.
- Further customize this installation with your own templates, Value Pack components, and so on as needed.
- Drag the Microsoft Office 98 folder from the network drive onto local hard disks.
- (Optional) Start an Office application on the local hard disk to complete the First Run Installation process.
The following sections describe each of these steps in more detail.
Create an Office Network Installation Point
Creating a network installation point requires a Macintosh file server, Windows NT Server, or other type of server properly configured to work with Macintosh client computers.
To create a network installation point for Office
- Insert the Office CD into the appropriate drive.
- Open the Office Custom Install folder.
- Double-click Microsoft Office Installer.
- Select Custom Install.
- Choose the specific Office components you want installed.
- In the Install Location list, select the network drive at the root of which you want to create the customized network installation point.
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In the Install Location list, select Select folder and then select the specific folder in which you want to create the customized network installation point, and then click Select.
- Click Install.
- Enter the name and organization you want used in all subsequent installations of Office created from this network installation point.
– or –
Enter any values you want now; later, you can undo this action so that during subsequent installations of Office from this network installation point the user is prompted for this information.
- Enter and confirm your 10 digit CD key.
Microsoft Office Installer then installs the Office components you selected onto the network drive you specified.
If you want to, you can clear the user name and organization information you entered previously for your network installation point. When Office is later installed onto client computers, Office prompts for this information. Skip this step if you do not want users prompted again during Office deployment.
To clear user name and organization information
- Insert the Microsoft Office CD into the appropriate drive.
- On the Office CD, open the folder Microsoft Office 98:Office and copy the file Microsoft Office 98 to the folder Microsoft Office 98:Office on the network drive.
Customizing the Office Network Installation Point
You can add your own custom components to the Microsoft Office 98 folder on the network drive. For example, you can add Value Pack components, custom templates, and startup documents.
To customize the Office network installation point
- On the network drive, open the Microsoft Office 98 folder.
- Customize Office as needed. Some options include:
| To | Do this
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| Add custom templates to Office
| Copy your custom templates for Excel, PowerPoint, or Word to one of the folders in the Microsoft Office 98:Templates folder.
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| Open a document each time its related application is started
| Copy the document to the Excel, PowerPoint, or Word folder in the Microsoft Office 98:Office:Startup folder.
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| Add a custom add-in to Excel
| Copy your custom add-in to the Microsoft Office 98:Office:Excel Add-ins folder.
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| Add an Office Value Pack component to Office
| In most cases, you can drag the Value Pack component directly from the Value Pack folder to the network installation point. Some Value Pack components must be copied into the System Folder on the local hard disk. For more information, see "Installing Value Pack Components" later in this section.
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These are just a few of the ways you can customize an Office network installation point. After you have finished customizing it, you are ready to roll out Office to the client computers in your organization.
Rolling Out Office to Client Computers
Depending on your network environment and administration tools, there are several strategies you can use to roll out Office to the client computers in your organization:
- Push the Microsoft Office 98 folder to client computers by dragging the folder to each hard disk from a network server. This requires that you have read-write access to the client computer, and File Sharing on each client computer is properly enabled.
- Pull the Microsoft Office 98 folder to client computers by dragging the Microsoft Office 98 folder from the network installation point. This requires that you or the end users initiate the drag-and-drop installation from each client computer.
- Install the Microsoft Office 98 folder to client computers by using a third party Macintosh network management program. For example, many such programs can copy a script to the System Folder:Startup Items folder on a client computer. The script then copies the Microsoft Office 98 folder from the network installation point to the hard disk. Some popular third party Macintosh network management programs include:
- File Wave Enterprise Edition from Wave Research
- Net Octopus from Dr. Solomon's Software
- Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 (supports Macintosh client computers running System 7.x only)
Depending on the rollout method you use, you may also want to incorporate First Run Installation into your rollout. This saves end users from spending time waiting for First Run Installation to complete, and may avoid calls to your organization's help desk about slow startup.
Uninstalling Office 98
Microsoft Office Installer can remove Office 98 from a local or network drive, regardless of how Office was initially installed on that drive.
To uninstall Office 98
- Insert the Microsoft Office CD into the appropriate drive.
- Open the Office Custom Install folder.
- Double-click Microsoft Office Installer.
- Select Remove.
- In the Install Location list, select the local or network drive that contains the Office installation you want removed.
- Click Remove.
Microsoft Office Installer does not remove files from the System Folder on the local hard disk, because Microsoft Office Installer cannot determine if such files may be used by other applications. In addition, Microsoft Office Installer does not remove any Value Pack components or other files in the Microsoft Office 98 folder that were not put there by the initial Office installation.
| | Tools and Utilities The Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities include the workbook Macoff98.xls. The worksheet "Files Not Removed" in this workbook lists the Office 98 files that the Remove option in Microsoft Office Installer does not remove from the System Folder. For more information, see "Informational Workbook for the Macintosh " in Appendix A, "Microsoft Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities."
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- Microsoft Office 4.2.1a and earlier versions (this includes Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0, and Word 6.0)
- Excel 4.0
- PowerPoint 3.0b
- Word 5.0, 5.1 and 5.1a
To start the Remove Old Office Versions application
- Insert the Microsoft Office CD into the appropriate drive.
– or –
If you copied the Value Pack folder to a network drive, connect to that drive.
- Open the Value Pack:Administration Tools folder.
- Double-click Remove Old Office Versions.
- Select Remove All.
– or –
Select Custom Remove, then select the specific applications you want removed.
- Click the Remove button.
| | Tools and Utilities The Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities include the workbook Macoff98.xls. The worksheet "Remove Old Office Versions File List" in this workbook lists the Office 98 files that the Remove Old Office Versions application can remove. For more information, see "Informational Workbook for the Macintosh" in Appendix A, "Microsoft Office Resource Kit Tools and Utilities."
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To install Value Pack components onto a hard disk
- Insert the Microsoft Office CD into the appropriate drive.
– or –
If you copied the Value Pack folder to a network drive, connect to that drive.
- Open the Value Pack folder.
- Double-click Value Pack Installer.
- Choose the specific Value Pack components you want to install.
– or –
To install all Value Pack components, click Select All.
- Click Install.
Value Pack Installer then installs the components the Microsoft Office 98 folder or System Folder.
You can include Value Pack components in a customized Office network installation point. The following procedure requires you to have previously created a network installation point in a folder named Microsoft Office 98. For information about creating a network installation point, see "Customizing Client Installations" earlier in this chapter.
To install Value Pack components onto a network installation point
- Insert the Microsoft Office CD into the appropriate drive.
– or –
If you copied the Value Pack folder to a network drive, connect to that drive.
- Open the Value Pack folder.
- In the Value Pack folder, drag the specific components you want into the appropriate location within the Microsoft Office folder on your network drive.
Some Value Pack components such as text converters must be copied to a specific folder to function properly. In most cases the Value Pack folder in which these components reside correspond to the Microsoft Office folder name into which they should be copied. For example, the Value Pack:Text Converters folder contains items that should be copied to the Microsoft Office 98:Shared Applications:Text Converters folder.
While most components can be copied directly from the Value Pack folder to the network installation point, a few Value Pack components must be installed to the System Folder on the client hard disk to work properly. Examples of such components include fonts and the Microsoft Office Manager control panel. If these components are copied from a network installation point to a client computer, they do not work properly without additional steps.
Your options for deploying such components include:
- Run Value Pack Installer locally or from a network drive, and install the components you want onto the correct location on the client hard disk.
- Manually copy Value Pack components to the correct location on the client hard disk.
For example, manually copy fonts from the Value Pack:Fonts folder to the System Folder:Fonts folder on each client computer on which you want the fonts.
- Use a Macintosh network management program to push these components from a network drive to the correct folder on a client hard disk.
For example, use a third party network management program to push the Microsoft Office Manager control panel from a network location to the System Folder:Control Panels folder on each client hard disk.
In fact, you can use any of these options for deploying any Value Pack component. These options may be the most useful if you decide to deploy a Value Pack component after deploying Office and you don't want to reinstall Office (with Value Pack components added) on your client computers.
Installing Outlook Express and Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft Outlook Express 4.0 for the Macintosh is a new application that builds upon Microsoft Internet Mail and News. Outlook Express allows Macintosh users to communicate with others on the Internet through e-mail and newsgroups. For more information about Outlook Express, see "Intelligent Applications in Microsoft Outlook Express" in Chapter 2, "What's New in Microsoft Office."
The Microsoft Internet folder on the Microsoft Office CD includes Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and Outlook Express. The Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook Express installation is not integrated into the Office or Value Pack installation process. Because both Outlook Express and Microsoft Internet Explorer require configuration settings beyond Office, you should deploy both in a separate rollout effort.
For corporate rollouts, the Microsoft Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) 4.0 enables you to deploy, customize, and maintain Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook Express from one central location across multiple computer platforms.
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World Wide Web For the latest information about or to download the IEAK, connect to the Microsoft Internet Explorer Administration Kit home page at:
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ieak/
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- Product files, including
a file name, size, and folders to search. The signature can indicate
whether to search one or more default folders only, or to search
the entire disk.
- INI file entries, including
an INI file name, key, and value
- Registry entries
key and value
At the beginning of the client installation process, Setup searches
the client computer for indications that at least one of the products
on the list is installed. The first product it finds satisfies
the search, and Setup proceeds with the installation. If the table
instructs Setup to search the entire disk, Setup displays a message
to this effect and lists the products it is looking for.
If no products from the list are found, Setup gives the user a
chance to insert the installation floppy disk for a complying
product. If the user does not have such a disk, Setup ends and
does not install the upgrade. In some cases, the compliance checking
table for an upgrade may specify that Setup can continue without
finding a compliant product, in which case Setup displays a warning
and then continues with the upgrade. This depends on how Microsoft
has defined the compliance checking rules for a particular product
upgrade.
The following lists the products that Setup searches for when
you upgrade to Office 97.
Office Suites
- Microsoft Office for Windows
(all versions)
- Microsoft Works for Windows (all
versions)
- Borland Office, version 2.0
- Corel
WordPerfect Suite 7
- Lotus SmartSuite, version
2.0 or later
- Novell PerfectOffice, version 3.0
or later
Word Processors
- Microsoft Word for MSDOS,
version 2.0 or later
- Microsoft Word for Windows,
version 1.0 or later
- Microsoft Word for Windows NT
Workstation, version 6.0
- Ami Pro for Windows,
version 1.0 or later
- WordPerfect for MSDOS,
version 4.0 or later
- WordPerfect for Windows,
version 5.1 or later
- Word Pro 96 Edition for
Windows and Windows 95
- WordStar for MSDOS,
version 1.0 or later
- WordStar for Windows, version
1.0 or later
- WordStar 2000 for MSDOS,
version 3.0 or later
- WordStar Pro for MSDOS,
version 1.0 or later
Spreadsheets
- Microsoft Excel for Windows,
version 3.0 or later
- Microsoft Excel for Windows NT
Workstation, version 5.0
- Microsoft Multiplan®, all versions
- Borland Quattro Pro for MSDOS,
version 1.0 or later
- Borland Quattro Pro for
Windows, version 1.0 or later
- Borland Quattro
Pro Special Edition, version 1.0
- Lotus 123
for MSDOS, release2.01 or later
- Lotus
123 for Windows, release 1.0 or later
- SuperCalc
for MSDOS, version 3.1 or later
Presentation Graphics
- Microsoft PowerPoint for
Windows, version 2.0 or later
- Aldus Persuasion
for Windows, version 2.0 or later
- ASAP, version
1.0 or later
- ASAP WordPower, version 1.0 or
later
- Harvard Graphics for MSDOS, version
2.3 or later
- Harvard Graphics for Windows, version
1.0 or later
- Lotus Freelance for MSDOS,
release 4.0
- Lotus Freelance for Windows, release
1.0 or later
- WordPerfect Presentations for MSDOS,
version 2.0
- WordPerfect Presentations for Windows,
version 2.0 or later
Databases
- Microsoft Access, version 1.0
or later
- Microsoft FoxPro® for MSDOS, version
2.0 or later
- Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, version
2.5 or later
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro® for Windows,
version 3.0
- Borland dBASE 5.0 for MSDOS
- Borland
dBASE 5.0 for Windows
- Borland dBASE IV for MSDOS,
version 1.0 or later
- Borland Paradox for MSDOS,
version 4.5 or later
- Borland Paradox for Windows,
version 1.0 or later
- Claris FileMaker Pro for
Windows, version 2.0 or later
- DataEase 5.0 for
Windows
- Lotus Approach for Windows, version
1.0 or later
- Personal Oracle7 for Windows
- Superbase
versions 1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 4.1.3
- Superbase for
Windows 95, version 3.0
- Symantec Q&A
for MSDOS, version 4.0
- Symantec Q&A
for Windows, version 4.0
Scheduling
- Microsoft Schedule+, version
7.0
Project Management
- Microsoft Project, version
1.0 or later
Contact Microsoft Product Support for additional help with specific
upgrading situations.
Licensing
Every user must have an Office license, no matter how
you install Office in your organization. One license is provided
with each retail package of Office.
If you do not want to purchase a complete copy of Office for every
user, you can purchase a License Pak. Each License Pak allows
you to make and use one additional copy of Office. You do not
need to store extra copies of Office or the documentation, and
it is less expensive than purchasing a retail package. For more
information, ask your reseller about licensing options.
- SR1 Enterprise Update,
available on CD or floppy disks
- SR1 patch,
available on the World Wide Web, on CD, or on floppy disks
The SR1 Enterprise Update requires a full reinstallation
of Office 97, and you install it in the same way that you
originally installed Office. The SR1 patch is designed to
upgrade your Office 97 installation in place, by updating
only those files that have changed in SR1. The patch contains
the most significant enhancements in SR1, including the
Word 6.0/95 Binary Converter for Word 97 and the Outlook
Internet Mail Enhancement Patch.
Use the following criteria to help determine which configuration
to use to install Office 97 SR1.
| In this scenario
| Deploy this configuration of SR-1
|
| Office 97 not yet installed
| SR1 Enterprise Update
|
| Office 97 running from network servers
| SR1 Enterprise Update
|
| Office 97 installed locally, but Outlook 97 not installed
| SR1 Patch |
| Outlook 97 installed locally with Office 97 instead of with Exchange Server 5.0
| SR1 Patch |
If you installed Outlook with Exchange Server 5.0, you can update
both Office 97 and Outlook 97 to the SR-1 version in one of two ways:
- To update Office and
Outlook together, install the SR1 Enterprise Update.
- To update Office and Outlook separately, install the SR1 patch
to update Office, and then install the Exchange Server 5.0 Service
Pack 1 to update Outlook.
- A Typical installation Office 97
SR-1 Professional Edition requires an additional 4 MB of hard disk space.
- A
Complete installation of Word 97 SR-1 requires an additional
1 MB of hard disk space.
- A Typical installation of Outlook 97
SR-1 requires an additional 7 MB of hard disk space.
The SR1 patch requires the following service packs be installed
before running the patch:
- For computers running Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or Windows NT Server 3.51, install Service Pack 5.
- For computers running Windows NT Workstation 4.0 or Windows NT Server 4.0, install Service Pack 2 or later.
- For computers running Windows 95, no service pack is required.
|
| World Wide
Web For more
information about installing service packs on computers running the Windows NT operating system, connect to the Windows NT Server Technical Support page at:
|
- Office 97 Professional Edition
- Office 97 Standard Edition
- Office 97 Small Business Edition
- Word 97
- Excel 97
- PowerPoint 97
- Access 97
- Outlook 97
The SR-1 patch updates only the files for applications
that you have on your computer. When you run the patch, the patch
executable file finds the Office 97 files on your computer, determines
which components you currently have installed from Office 97,
writes the SR1 changes to those files, and then makes appropriate
changes to your Windows registry.
Note This
SR1 patch does not upgrade the International English
version or localized versions of Office 97 for Windows products. For information about international versions of the Office 97 SR-1 patch, contact your local subsidiary.
|
| World Wide
Web The SR1
patch is available on the World Wide Web and on CD or floppy disk.
For information about obtaining the patch, connect to the Office 97 Service Release page at:
|
- For computers running Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or Windows NT Server 3.51, install Service Pack 5.
- For computers running Windows NT Workstation 4.0 or Windows NT Server 4.0, install Service Pack 2.
- For computers running Windows 95/98, no service pack is required.
- Office 97 Professional Edition SR–1
- Office 97 Standard Edition SR–1
- Office 97 Small Business Edition SR–1
- Word 97 SR–1
- Excel 97 SR–1
- PowerPoint 97 SR–1
- Access 97 SR–1
- Outlook 97 SR–1
- Outlook 8.03
The SR–2 patch updates only the applications that you have on your computer. If you want to install additional Office components, install them on your computer before installing the SR–2 patch. For more information, see "Running Office 97 Setup After the Service Release 2 Patch" later in this chapter.
- First, you update the Office
administrative installation point on the network from which Office
was installed originally.
- Second, users run
Setup from the administrative installation point to update Office
on their computers.
Before you begin the updating process, prepare the server just
as you did when you installed Office originally:
- Make sure all users are
logged off, and prevent network user access to the folders during
the updating process.
- Move any workgroup documents,
templates, or other custom files you want to save to another location.
- Delete
the existing Office folders on the server. These folders include
both the main Office folder (which contains Office program files
such Winword.exe and Excel.exe) and the shared applications folder
(which contains shared applications such as the spelling checker).
Note If
you have customized the Setup.stf (STF) file, do not copy this
file into the updated Office folder. Instead, customize the new
STF file that is included with the updated version of Office.
For more information about STF files, see Chapter 6, "Customizing Client Installations."
To
update the Office administrative installation point with the same
configuration
- Insert the updated Office CD into the appropriate drive.
- In Windows 95
or Windows NT Workstation 4.0, click Run on the
Start menu, and then type drive:/setup
/a (where drive is the letter of the CDROM
drive).
– or –
In Windows NT Workstation 3.51, click Run
on the Program Manager or File Manager File menu, and then type
drive:\setup /a (where drive is the letter of the CDROM drive).
This installs the new version of Office into the same
folders as the previous version.
- Enter the name
and a path for the folder in which you want to store the shared
application files.
Specify this location in the same way you did when you
installed Office originally — with the same drive
letter or the same UNC path.
After the administrative installation point is updated, users'
computers can be updated.
To
update client computers with the same Office configuration
- Close all Office applications.
- Connect
to the administrative installation point and open the folder containing
the main Office application files.
- Doubleclick
Setup.
- Follow the instructions on the screen.
As during the original installation of Office, you can have users
run Setup themselves, or you can automate the process using the
techniques described in Chapter 6, "Customizing
Client Installations."
Note If
you purchased the Office 97 Standard Edition, you cannot
use the standalone Access product to update your Office
installation. If you want to add Access to your Office
installation, you must purchase Office 97 Professional Edition.
After you purchase the Professional Edition, follow the steps
described earlier in this section for updating Office software.
Installing from CD or Floppy Disks
If your users originally installed Office from the Office CD or
floppy disks, they can install the Office update in the same way.
To update Office from CD or floppy disks
- Close all Office applications.
- In
Explorer (Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 4.0)
or Program Manager (Windows NT Workstation 3.51), doubleclick
Setup on the new CD or on Disk 1 of the new floppy disk set.
- Follow
the instructions on the screen.
Updating Office with a New Configuration
When you update Office software, you can change the way Office
is configured on your network. With your original installation,
client computers may have been configured so that all Office programs
are located on the user's hard disk, or some or all of the Office
components are shared on a network server. When installing an
Office update, you can change this configuration. For example,
you may have upgraded your network servers and would now like
users to run the shared Office applications from a network server,
rather than store the applications on their hard disks.
Changing your Office configuration is a twostep process.
First, you need to create or update your administrative installation
point with updated software and with new configuration options.
Second, users must uninstall Office and then reinstall it to get
the new version.
If your users originally installed Office from the CD or floppy
disks, you need to create an administrative installation point
on a network server from which users can install Office. For information
about creating an administrative installation point, see "Installing Office from the Network"
earlier in this chapter.
Before you begin the updating process, make sure all users are
logged off, and prevent network access to the folders during the
updating process.
To
create an Office administrative installation point with a new
configuration
- Prepare a new network server
location so that Office Setup can create the new administrative
installation point in an empty folder.
Do not delete the existing Office folder structure;
users must use the original Setup program to remove their existing
Office installations.
- Insert the updated Office
CD into the appropriate drive.
- In Windows 95
or Windows NT Workstation 4.0, click Run on the
Start menu, and then type drive:\setup
/a (where drive is the letter of the CDROM drive).
– or –
In Windows NT Workstation 3.51, click Run
on the Program Manager or File Manager File menu, and then type
drive:\setup /a (where drive is the letter of the CDROM drive).
- Enter
the name and a path for the folder in which you want to store
the main Office files and the shared application files. Also enter
any new configuration information — for example,
whether users run shared applications from the server.
Once you have created the new administrative installation point,
you can use the Network Installation Wizard to further customize
the installation. For more information, see Chapter 6, "Customizing Client Installations."
Next, because configuration information is being changed, your
users must remove their existing version of Office and then install
the new version.
To
update client computers with a new Office configuration
- Office applications.
- Connect
to the original administrative installation point and open the
folder containing the main Office application files.
- Doubleclick
Setup.
- Click Remove All.
- Connect
to the new administrative installation point and open the folder
containing the main Office application files.
- Doubleclick
Setup.
- Follow the instructions on the screen.
As during the original installation of Office, you can have users
run Setup themselves, or you can automate the process using the
techniques described in Chapter 6, "Customizing
Client Installations." To automate the uninstall
of Office, use the /u commandline option. For more
information, see Appendix B, "Setup Command-Line Options and File Formats."
