[AccessD] Acc97 run-time question.

Bobby Heid bheid at appdevgrp.com
Wed Oct 8 13:34:00 CDT 2003


Thanks Charlotte and Doug for the information.

This is more of an exception install at that location.  I do not know if
they have Off2k, OffXP, or Off2003.  I was just looking for a simple way of
getting the runtime onto their system.

Thanks,
Bobby

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 2:21 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Acc97 run-time question.


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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