[AccessD] Acc97 run-time question.

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Wed Oct 8 13:21:06 CDT 2003


I ran into issues using the setup wizard packages for 97 on machines
that had Office 2000 (not Access 2000) installed.  That permanently
cured any lingering affection I had for the MS wizard.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Murphy [mailto:dw-murphy at cox.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:06 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Acc97 run-time question.


If this is a one time installation and the target computer does not have
any other versions of Access on it I'd go with the MS Deployment Wizard
built package.  We used this for distributing a package that went on
many different computers some with other versions of Access and we did
not have any problems.  The caveat is that I went through all the
knowledgebase articles on the 97 P&D wizard and made all the recommended
modifications.  I don't know that these articles are still available.
You might look.  If you want I can send a list of the article numbers
offline.

We have since moved to Wise and Sagekey scripts for Access 2002.  For a
large number of installations on unknown systems that seems to be the
most bullet proof way to go. I don't think that developing your own Wise
scripts would be cost effective.

Bottom line is that what ever you do should be tested on a similar
system to the target before deploying.

Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:05 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Acc97 run-time question.


Hey,

Our client has office 97 on every pc that our application goes on.  SO I
have never had to create a run-time install.  We usually create an
install using an older copy of Wise Installer.  

Anyway, they have a satellite office that does not want to put Access 97
on their systems and they want us to give them the run-time.  I tried
the set-up wizard using a blank database.  It created 18 files that
total up to about 1.09MB.  Is that what I need to send to them for
testing?  All I want to do is load the run-time on their PCs.

We are moving to XP very soon (client is slow to change) so this will be
a moot point later.  But for now...


Thanks,
Bobby

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