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Old May 25th, 2004, 10:20 PM
Ralph Sharett
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Default MSI installer runs when I run Office 2003 app

I just installed office 2003 as an upgrade from office XP on my Windows XP
SP1 laptop. When logged in as an administrator everything runs fine. When
I login as the intended user with just user rights, the installer runs
whenever I use outlook or other office apps.

I then removed all of office, rebooted and did a fresh full install. I am
getting the same problem. I have installed office 2003 on about 10 of our
160 machines to test out the suite before doing the full deployment. This is
the first machine to show this behavior. I would like to figure this out
before I have more problems.

Any ideas.

Thanks

Ralph Sharett


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Old May 27th, 2004, 07:58 AM
vishal subramaniam
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Default MSI installer runs when I run Office 2003 app




ISSUE:
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I just installed office 2003 as an upgrade from office XP on my Windows XP
SP1 laptop. When logged in as an administrator everything runs fine. When
I login as the intended user with just user rights, the installer runs
whenever I use outlook or other office apps.

I then removed all of office, rebooted and did a fresh full install. I am
getting the same problem. I have installed office 2003 on about 10 of our
160 machines to test out the suite before doing the full deployment. This is
the first machine to show this behavior. I would like to figure this out
before I have more problems.

RESOLUTION:
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Installing Office with Elevated Privileges

Updated: November 18, 2003

In this topic

Logging on as an administrator

Assigning, publishing, or advertising Office

Related links

In the Microsoft® Windows® environments that support Microsoft Office 2003,
different groups of users have different levels of rights and permissions.
In these environments, default users have limited access to system areas of
the computer. Because Office 2003 Setup writes to system areas of the
operating system and the Windows registry, a user must have administrator
rights to the local computer to install Office 2003.

Users without administrator rights cannot install Office 2003. To install
Office on computers where users lack administrator rights, you must run
Setup with elevated privileges. After Office is installed, users without
administrator rights can run all installed features, including installing
features on demand, provided the initial installation was performed in an
elevated context.

In organizations where users are not the administrators of their computers,
there are three methods of elevating the Office installation:

Log on to the computer as an administrator and install Office 2003.
Assign, publish, or advertise Office applications.
You can use Group Policy software installation and management to assign or
publish Office 2003. You can also log on to the computer as an
administrator and run Setup with the /j command-line option to advertise
Office.

Use a software management tool, such as Microsoft Systems Management
Server, in an administrative context.
Because all of the core Office 2003 products are installed as Windows
Installer packages, any of the preceding methods grants users elevated
privileges and allows them to install Office and any chained packages. When
the initial installation is performed with elevated privileges, all
subsequent installations — including install on demand and automatic repair
of features — are also automatically elevated.

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Caution Setting the Windows Installer policy Always install with elevated
privileges allows a user without administrator rights to the computer to
install any Windows Installer package. Similarly, setting the policy Enable
user to use media source while elevated allows users without administrator
rights to install programs from a CD. The installation runs with elevated
privileges, and the user has unlimited access to system files and the
registry. Setting either of these policies leaves the computer highly
vulnerable, potentially allowing an attacker to run malicious code on the
computer. Using these policies to elevate an Office 2003 installation is
not recommended.
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Logging on as an administrator
If you log on to a computer with an account that has administrator rights,
you automatically install Office 2003 and Office 2003 MUI Packs with
elevated privileges. However, this method requires that all users have
administrator rights when they run Office Setup or that an administrator
visits every computer.

You can give users a temporary administrator name and password and have
them use the Run as command to install Office 2003 or MUI Packs in an
elevated context. If you create a shortcut to Setup.exe, you can include
command-line options to customize the installation. To help maintain a high
level of security in this scenario, you can write a script that contains
administrator credentials and calls the Run as command. For more
information, type runas \? at the command prompt.

Assigning, publishing, or advertising Office
You can also elevate the Office installation by using Group Policy software
installation to assign or publish Office 2003 and MUI Packs. Alternatively,
if you are not using Windows software installation and maintenance, you can
advertise Office 2003 by logging on as an administrator and then running
Setup with the /jm option. If you also include a Windows Installer
transform (MST file) to customize the installation, use the /t command-line
option to specify the MST file. For example:

setup.exe /jm pro11.msi /t office.mst
When you advertise Office 2003 in this way, Windows Installer shortcuts for
each application appear on the Start menu, and a minimal set of core Office
files and components is installed on the computer. When a user clicks a
shortcut or opens a file associated with an Office application, Windows
Installer runs with elevated privileges to install the application,
regardless of how the user logged on. After Office is advertised, users can
also run Setup from an administrative installation point and install Office
with elevated privileges.

Like Office XP, the language packs in the Microsoft Office 2003
Multilingual User Interface Pack are Windows Installer packages, and you
can advertise them to grant users elevated privileges when installing them.
You must be logged on as an administrator when you advertise a package.

LINKS:
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http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/...ch5/DepC01.htm
HTH
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