Office 2003 PIA redistribution.

[Guest]

Hi,

We have developed an addin for our software which required the Office 2003
PIAs.

Now we have downloaded the Office 2003 PIA redistributable (O2003PIA.EXE)
which is a signed self extracting ZIP.

Having read the documentation contained within this it suggests we can wrap
the MSI with our own installer, or we can install it by double clicking on
the MSI. Thats fine, however we would like to just present a list of
prerequisits which the user can download from a webpage.

The problem here is the MSI is not digitally signed by Microsoft, (when it
really should be), as a result the browser warns us its an untrusted
publisher which is bad.

Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if Microsoft
can/willing to release a signed version of their Office 2003 MSI?

Cheers,

Philip

 

[Alvin Bruney [MVP]]

I'm not sure of this, however you can go to the office web site to find if
there is a signed version or patch.

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[Guest]

Hi,

I have already been to the MSDN website.

To compare the Office 2007 PIA MSI is digitally signed which is good, so it
just looks like a sloppy job when the Office 2003 PIA MSI was manfactured.

The problem could be very easily resolved by Microsoft by simply signing the
MSI contained in the self extracting zip.

As I said it doesn't effect anything at runtime but it looks unprofessional
when end users are reminded several times if they want to run the MSI since
it comes from an unknown publisher.

Philip