Office asks for cd for each user!! PLEASE HELP!!

[tdean]

i have to setup 50 new computers with office 2k. i installed the os. then office. i hooked one up to the network and logged on and when i launch any of the office suite apps, i get this error: error 1706: no valid source could be found for product microsoft office 2000 sr-1 premium. the windows installer could not continue. if i hit cancel 3 times, everything is fine. Also, if I put everyone in the local admin group its fine, but that doesn’t sound like a good idea to me. this will be a tremendous pain since there are 800 users on the network. please help.
....the crows seemed to be calling him, thought caw....<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by tdean on 08/06/03 09:55 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[jihiggs]

you checked the kb? if your doing that many computers you should look into some kind of cloning software.

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[tdean]

yeah, im gonna use disk image, but i have to get one working first. any ideas about this? i just reinstalled office and now when i go to the other local acct and try to launch word, i get the three errors, then the program quits responding.

i got this, but it didnt work... for some reason i have no userid key.
http/support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312596

....the crows seemed to be calling him, thought caw....<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by tdean on 08/07/03 00:57 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[jihiggs]

you need to look up the error messages on the kb

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[tdean]

i did... nothing applied. this is brutal.

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[jihiggs]

ill get back to you tomorow.

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[tdean]

excellent.... thank you.

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[jihiggs]

need to know more about how you installed office. was it from a network share? from a cd? full installation?

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[tdean]

it was a full install from a cd.

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[tdean]

someone over at the ms newsgroup site suggested this: You should create a central Administrative Install Point for Office 2k
and then install on every machine using this.

wouldnt that be a pain? i just want to set up one and clone it...


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[jihiggs]

that is what you should do but its not neccisary, im not sure why you are getting that error message. just search the kb for that error number, i got a ton of relevant articles.

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[tdean]

hmmm... thats odd. when i cut and paste the exact error message in the kb search i get nothing. when i search just the error 1706, i get a bunch but they are all related to install files being on a network share.

i think its odd that it works perfectly when i put the users in the local admin acct, but when they are in the pwr users group i get the error, and the program quits responding.

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