Office Communicator install fails on Vista Feb CTP

[John Joyner]

Had Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 version 1.0.559 running fine on Vista
Nov 05 CTP. However i can not get Communicator to install on Vista Feb 06
CTP. Install fails with "This installation was interrupted". All Office
2003 SP-2 apps are successfully installed and running including Outlook.

Anyone know something about this?
Thanks, John

 

[Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)]

Try running the install .exe in compatibility mode with XP SP2. If it comes
as an .msi package (I can't remmeber...) then you can't (

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[John Joyner]

Thanks Zack, Communicator is distributed as an .MSI file. Any workarounds?
/ John

 

[Pierre Szwarc]

"John Joyner" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de %[email protected]...
| Thanks Zack, Communicator is distributed as an .MSI file. Any
workarounds?
| / John
|
| | > Try running the install .exe in compatibility mode with XP SP2. If it
| > comes as an .msi package (I can't remmeber...) then you can't (
| >
| > --
| > Zack Whittaker
| > » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
| > » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
| > » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
| > » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
| > rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
| > not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we
| > cleared that up!
| >
| >
| > --- Original message follows ---
| > | >> Had Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 version 1.0.559 running fine on
| >> Vista Nov 05 CTP. However i can not get Communicator to install on
Vista
| >> Feb 06 CTP. Install fails with "This installation was interrupted".
All
| >> Office 2003 SP-2 apps are successfully installed and running including
| >> Outlook.
| >>
| >> Anyone know something about this?
| >> Thanks, John
| >>
| >>
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Pierre Szwarc]

Open Explorer as administrator. When you double-click the MSI file, it
should inherit the security environment.
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"John Joyner" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de %[email protected]...
| Thanks Zack, Communicator is distributed as an .MSI file. Any
workarounds?
| / John

 

[John Joyner]

That did the trick, Pierre, Thank you.
MSI setup failed as a local admin, but did succeed when launched with RUNAS
using the actual "built in Administrator".
/ John

 

[Pierre Szwarc]

Glad to help
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Pierre Szwarc
Paris, France
PGP key ID 0x75B5779B
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"John Joyner" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message
de news: (e-mail address removed)...
| That did the trick, Pierre, Thank you.
| MSI setup failed as a local admin, but did succeed when launched with
RUNAS
| using the actual "built in Administrator".
| / John