Greetings Peter & list--
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] MS Office 2000 errors
>I don't have a complete answer for you, but do have some things for you to
> check. Some years ago, I ran into such a situation when a school lab was
> moved from Win95 to Windows NT. The office applications did not work
> unless
> the user was logged in with Administrative privileges. Our solution at
> that
> time was to have administrative level accounts for the users. This was
> done
> because I did not have time to fix it properly, and it was not my
> responsibility to do so - I was called in only because I was more familiar
> with NT than anyone else there.
>
> My suspicion is that the installation of office needs to have an area
> where
> it can write some temporary files. If the user does not have write
> privilege
> to the disk area that office uses, you will have error messages. Have you
> tried to re-install Office using the users account? Also check the access
> rights of the user to the office common area files.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> MS Office 2000 applications are exhibiting odd behaviors on a number of
> Windows XP Professional computers attached to a domain. The users are all
> limited users residing in containers in Active Directory and there are
> several Group Policies attached to these containers. (It should be noted
> that the odd behaviors I'm about to describe occurred before the users
> were
> moved to the AD container with the linked policies.)
>
> Paul A. Shippert
>
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I'll have to try granting full control to the Office Common Files. That
seems like a potentially viable option.
As for installing as a user, only Admins can install and I need to keep the
users at a limited level so the GPOs I've linked will "protect them (and me)
from themselves". Prior to the acquisition of these XP computers, I had to
rebuild many of the staff computers because they couldn't resist the cutesy
screen savers, the clever toolbars, and other unauthorized software
(including stuff they brought from home). This was roughly a 5-7 hour task
per machine, given the OS (Win 98SE), the security updates, the Office Pro,
and the community management software. As it is, one of my users will have
to be a local administrator in order to be able to use QuickBooks for
payroll.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Paul A. Shippert
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