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 _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com