Vista 5308 / Office 2007 Beta2 work OK together ?

[- Bobb -]

Thanks for the info.

I tried to download - clicked the URL - entered my passport info, got a
windows key page, and when I hit continue, I then got a message
stating - "server busy try later". I tried later and get:

Thank you for participating in the Microsoft Windows Vista Customer
Preview Program.
You have received the maximum number of Product Keys available for this
program.
Note: Windows Vista Beta 2 can be installed and activated on up to 10
PCs using with one Product Key.

And that's it - I can't download it !
I think they have a bug in the system: it noted my email to track that I
did get a key , but now prevents me from getting the download.



"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com>
wrote in message Hi Bobb,

FWIW, the new "Windows Vista Ultimate" Beta2 Preview build is now
available for download or ordering a CD from
http://microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

Note, however, this admonition on the website.

This is beta code and should not be used in a production environment or
on a main machine in the home. Beta 2 is intended for developers, IT
professionals and technology experts to continue or begin their testing
of Windows Vista. Before you decide to use Beta 2, you should feel
comfortable with installing operating systems, updating drivers, and
general PC troubleshooting. Some risks of using beta operating systems
include hardware and software incompatibility and system instability. If
you have concerns about installing this beta software on your computer,
we encourage you to obtain the final release version of Windows Vista
when it is available in 2007.

For Office 2007 Beta 2, it isn't supported on Windows vista builds
earlier than 5384, so any issues that you find in build 5308
compatibility mode aren't going to be too valid in trying to wring out
bugs in Office 2007 before it launches


==========
absolutely correct - works fine thank you. >>
--
I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

LINKS for the 2007 Office System

1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie
the 2007 Microsoft Office system iinfo is at
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2?
Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net

 

[- Bobb -]

my fault - they sent me an email with the "how-to get it" info - dope
slap.

 

[- Bobb -]

Thanks Bob.

I also noted THIS at the end of the page for any " XP upgraders":

In addition, once you install Windows Vista Beta 2 (or RC1) you cannot roll back to the previous operating system installation-you will either have to acquire and install the final released edition of Windows Vista or reinstall a previous edition of Windows.

Bobb

"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message Hi Bobb,

FWIW, the new "Windows Vista Ultimate" Beta2 Preview build is now available for download or ordering a CD from http://microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

Note, however, this admonition on the website.

This is beta code and should not be used in a production environment or on a main machine in the home. Beta 2 is intended for developers, IT professionals and technology experts to continue or begin their testing of Windows Vista. Before you decide to use Beta 2, you should feel comfortable with installing operating systems, updating drivers, and general PC troubleshooting. Some risks of using beta operating systems include hardware and software incompatibility and system instability. If you have concerns about installing this beta software on your computer, we encourage you to obtain the final release version of Windows Vista when it is available in 2007.

For Office 2007 Beta 2, it isn't supported on Windows vista builds earlier than 5384, so any issues that you find in build 5308 compatibility mode aren't going to be too valid in trying to wring out bugs in Office 2007 before it launches


==========
absolutely correct - works fine thank you. >>
--
I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

LINKS for the 2007 Office System

1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie
the 2007 Microsoft Office system iinfo is at
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2?
Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net

 

[- Bobb -]

FYI,
I tried to order the 64 bit OS on DVD - it only lists the 32bit DVD as
an option



"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com>
wrote in message Hi Bobb,

FWIW, the new "Windows Vista Ultimate" Beta2 Preview build is now
available for download or ordering a CD from
http://microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

Note, however, this admonition on the website.

This is beta code and should not be used in a production environment or
on a main machine in the home. Beta 2 is intended for developers, IT
professionals and technology experts to continue or begin their testing
of Windows Vista. Before you decide to use Beta 2, you should feel
comfortable with installing operating systems, updating drivers, and
general PC troubleshooting. Some risks of using beta operating systems
include hardware and software incompatibility and system instability. If
you have concerns about installing this beta software on your computer,
we encourage you to obtain the final release version of Windows Vista
when it is available in 2007.

For Office 2007 Beta 2, it isn't supported on Windows vista builds
earlier than 5384, so any issues that you find in build 5308
compatibility mode aren't going to be too valid in trying to wring out
bugs in Office 2007 before it launches


==========
absolutely correct - works fine thank you. >>
--
I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

LINKS for the 2007 Office System

1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie
the 2007 Microsoft Office system iinfo is at
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2?
Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net

 

[Guest]

Hi I am Vince and I just started using Vista build 5384-2 and I am having a
problem with loading office 2007 says the certificate is no good whats up
with that. Are they going to wait for the release before we can test office
2007. Also IE7b2 doesn't work eather.

 

[Guest]

I'm running 5384 (from CD, don't know about '-2'; don't know what that is)
IE7b2 is working fine. I've downloaded OfficeProPlus, VisioPro, ProjectPro,
OneNote and BCM. (Don't plan to use BCM.) OfficeProPlus and VisioPro both
extracted, loaded, authenticated and run fine. Can't get ProjectPro or
OneNote to extract from either a USB 20M Archer or 1G stick; go through the
motions on double-click but never start the extraction process. All work
fine on an XPSP2 Sony VAIO laptop across the room using the same disk setups.


Guess I'll copy them to the Vista hard drive and try it that way.

Overall I'm very pleased with all the improvements.

Hawk.

 

[William]

What is BCM?

William

I'm running 5384 (from CD, don't know about '-2'; don't know what that is)
IE7b2 is working fine. I've downloaded OfficeProPlus, VisioPro, ProjectPro,
OneNote and BCM. (Don't plan to use BCM.) OfficeProPlus and VisioPro both
extracted, loaded, authenticated and run fine. Can't get ProjectPro or
OneNote to extract from either a USB 20M Archer or 1G stick; go through the
motions on double-click but never start the extraction process. All work
fine on an XPSP2 Sony VAIO laptop across the room using the same disk setups.


Guess I'll copy them to the Vista hard drive and try it that way.

Overall I'm very pleased with all the improvements.

Hawk.

:

 

[Milly Staples - MVP Outlook]

Outlook 2007 with (B)usiness (C)ontact (M)anager.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, William asked:

| What is BCM?
|
| William
|
| Hawk wrote:
|| I'm running 5384 (from CD, don't know about '-2'; don't know what
|| that is) IE7b2 is working fine. I've downloaded OfficeProPlus,
|| VisioPro, ProjectPro, OneNote and BCM. (Don't plan to use BCM.)
|| OfficeProPlus and VisioPro both extracted, loaded, authenticated and
|| run fine. Can't get ProjectPro or OneNote to extract from either a
|| USB 20M Archer or 1G stick; go through the motions on double-click
|| but never start the extraction process. All work fine on an XPSP2
|| Sony VAIO laptop across the room using the same disk setups.
||
||
|| Guess I'll copy them to the Vista hard drive and try it that way.
||
|| Overall I'm very pleased with all the improvements.
||
|| Hawk.
||
|| "Vince Maier" wrote:
||
||
||| Hi I am Vince and I just started using Vista build 5384-2 and I am
||| having a problem with loading office 2007 says the certificate is
||| no good whats up with that. Are they going to wait for the release
||| before we can test office 2007. Also IE7b2 doesn't work eather.
|||
||| "- Bobb -" wrote:
|||
|||
|||| I've used Vista 5308 for a while and I just now
|||| downloaded/installed Office 2007 beta 2.
|||| From available Office 2007 downloads, I chose and installed:
|||| Office Pro
|||| Outlook Business Contact Mgr
|||| One Note
|||| Project
||||
|||| I did not "register for support" after any of the apps installed.
|||| I rebooted before trying any apps ( figuring I'd then register)
|||| and when I try to run any of them I get an error and a popup
|||| asking if I'd like to send an error report to MSFT. I don't know
|||| / it doesn't tell me what the error is , BUT in Control Panel -
|||| Solutions - it does say that it is a known error and will be fixed
|||| in the next release. Am I on Candid Camera ? My download is 2
|||| hours old and it's a KNOWN bug and will be fixed Next time - No
|||| office app even STARTS ( yes i'm yelling at my PC) !!!
||||
|||| Perhaps Office 2007 Beta and Vista Beta don't work together ?
|||| Although I thought that THAT was the whole idea ? I sent them this
|||| text as feedback. Any suggestions to get this going ? I'm off to
|||| look for answers ( someplace other than MSFT website which doesn't
|||| offer me any solution). Bobb

 

[Guest]

I copied them to the Document folder and both of them extracted, loaded,
authenticated and are working great so I have a work-around!!

Now onward and upward to networking. I have a SOHO network of 7 machines
here at the house; all XPSP2 systems.

I'm really happy with what I see so far. Keep you posted!!

h

Outlook 2007 with (B)usiness (C)ontact (M)anager.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, William asked:

| What is BCM?
|
| William
|
| Hawk wrote:
|| I'm running 5384 (from CD, don't know about '-2'; don't know what
|| that is) IE7b2 is working fine. I've downloaded OfficeProPlus,
|| VisioPro, ProjectPro, OneNote and BCM. (Don't plan to use BCM.)
|| OfficeProPlus and VisioPro both extracted, loaded, authenticated and
|| run fine. Can't get ProjectPro or OneNote to extract from either a
|| USB 20M Archer or 1G stick; go through the motions on double-click
|| but never start the extraction process. All work fine on an XPSP2
|| Sony VAIO laptop across the room using the same disk setups.
||
||
|| Guess I'll copy them to the Vista hard drive and try it that way.
||
|| Overall I'm very pleased with all the improvements.
||
|| Hawk.
||
|| "Vince Maier" wrote:
||
||
||| Hi I am Vince and I just started using Vista build 5384-2 and I am
||| having a problem with loading office 2007 says the certificate is
||| no good whats up with that. Are they going to wait for the release
||| before we can test office 2007. Also IE7b2 doesn't work eather.
|||
||| "- Bobb -" wrote:
|||
|||
|||| I've used Vista 5308 for a while and I just now
|||| downloaded/installed Office 2007 beta 2.
|||| From available Office 2007 downloads, I chose and installed:
|||| Office Pro
|||| Outlook Business Contact Mgr
|||| One Note
|||| Project
||||
|||| I did not "register for support" after any of the apps installed.
|||| I rebooted before trying any apps ( figuring I'd then register)
|||| and when I try to run any of them I get an error and a popup
|||| asking if I'd like to send an error report to MSFT. I don't know
|||| / it doesn't tell me what the error is , BUT in Control Panel -
|||| Solutions - it does say that it is a known error and will be fixed
|||| in the next release. Am I on Candid Camera ? My download is 2
|||| hours old and it's a KNOWN bug and will be fixed Next time - No
|||| office app even STARTS ( yes i'm yelling at my PC) !!!
||||
|||| Perhaps Office 2007 Beta and Vista Beta don't work together ?
|||| Although I thought that THAT was the whole idea ? I sent them this
|||| text as feedback. Any suggestions to get this going ? I'm off to
|||| look for answers ( someplace other than MSFT website which doesn't
|||| offer me any solution). Bobb

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

If you are using this beta on a production network at home and are running a
business, PLEASE make backups of your vital information NOW. Remember, this
is Beta software and is not meant for running production environments and is
not stable. Your information and files can be corrupted anytime and there
is no guarantee they can be recovered. Additionally, you may be required to
format your computers before the release version is available.

Just a warning.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Hawk asked:

| I copied them to the Document folder and both of them extracted,
| loaded, authenticated and are working great so I have a work-around!!
|
| Now onward and upward to networking. I have a SOHO network of 7
| machines here at the house; all XPSP2 systems.
|
| I'm really happy with what I see so far. Keep you posted!!
|
| h
|
| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook" wrote:
|
|| Outlook 2007 with (B)usiness (C)ontact (M)anager.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, William asked:
||
||| What is BCM?
|||
||| William
|||
||| Hawk wrote:
|||| I'm running 5384 (from CD, don't know about '-2'; don't know what
|||| that is) IE7b2 is working fine. I've downloaded OfficeProPlus,
|||| VisioPro, ProjectPro, OneNote and BCM. (Don't plan to use BCM.)
|||| OfficeProPlus and VisioPro both extracted, loaded, authenticated
|||| and run fine. Can't get ProjectPro or OneNote to extract from
|||| either a USB 20M Archer or 1G stick; go through the motions on
|||| double-click but never start the extraction process. All work
|||| fine on an XPSP2 Sony VAIO laptop across the room using the same
|||| disk setups.
||||
||||
|||| Guess I'll copy them to the Vista hard drive and try it that way.
||||
|||| Overall I'm very pleased with all the improvements.
||||
|||| Hawk.
||||
|||| "Vince Maier" wrote:
||||
||||
||||| Hi I am Vince and I just started using Vista build 5384-2 and I am
||||| having a problem with loading office 2007 says the certificate is
||||| no good whats up with that. Are they going to wait for the release
||||| before we can test office 2007. Also IE7b2 doesn't work eather.
|||||
||||| "- Bobb -" wrote:
|||||
|||||
|||||| I've used Vista 5308 for a while and I just now
|||||| downloaded/installed Office 2007 beta 2.
|||||| From available Office 2007 downloads, I chose and installed:
|||||| Office Pro
|||||| Outlook Business Contact Mgr
|||||| One Note
|||||| Project
||||||
|||||| I did not "register for support" after any of the apps installed.
|||||| I rebooted before trying any apps ( figuring I'd then register)
|||||| and when I try to run any of them I get an error and a popup
|||||| asking if I'd like to send an error report to MSFT. I don't know
|||||| / it doesn't tell me what the error is , BUT in Control Panel -
|||||| Solutions - it does say that it is a known error and will be
|||||| fixed in the next release. Am I on Candid Camera ? My download
|||||| is 2 hours old and it's a KNOWN bug and will be fixed Next time
|||||| - No office app even STARTS ( yes i'm yelling at my PC) !!!
||||||
|||||| Perhaps Office 2007 Beta and Vista Beta don't work together ?
|||||| Although I thought that THAT was the whole idea ? I sent them
|||||| this text as feedback. Any suggestions to get this going ? I'm
|||||| off to look for answers ( someplace other than MSFT website
|||||| which doesn't offer me any solution). Bobb

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the warning. The key to my scenario is the statement re:"XPSP2
machines". They are the actual production systems; the Vista
machine/environment merely runs alongside for comparison purposes.

hawk

If you are using this beta on a production network at home and are running a
business, PLEASE make backups of your vital information NOW. Remember, this
is Beta software and is not meant for running production environments and is
not stable. Your information and files can be corrupted anytime and there
is no guarantee they can be recovered. Additionally, you may be required to
format your computers before the release version is available.

Just a warning.


--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Hawk asked:

| I copied them to the Document folder and both of them extracted,
| loaded, authenticated and are working great so I have a work-around!!
|
| Now onward and upward to networking. I have a SOHO network of 7
| machines here at the house; all XPSP2 systems.
|
| I'm really happy with what I see so far. Keep you posted!!
|
| h
|
| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook" wrote:
|
|| Outlook 2007 with (B)usiness (C)ontact (M)anager.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, William asked:
||
||| What is BCM?
|||
||| William
|||
||| Hawk wrote:
|||| I'm running 5384 (from CD, don't know about '-2'; don't know what
|||| that is) IE7b2 is working fine. I've downloaded OfficeProPlus,
|||| VisioPro, ProjectPro, OneNote and BCM. (Don't plan to use BCM.)
|||| OfficeProPlus and VisioPro both extracted, loaded, authenticated
|||| and run fine. Can't get ProjectPro or OneNote to extract from
|||| either a USB 20M Archer or 1G stick; go through the motions on
|||| double-click but never start the extraction process. All work
|||| fine on an XPSP2 Sony VAIO laptop across the room using the same
|||| disk setups.
||||
||||
|||| Guess I'll copy them to the Vista hard drive and try it that way.
||||
|||| Overall I'm very pleased with all the improvements.
||||
|||| Hawk.
||||
|||| "Vince Maier" wrote:
||||
||||
||||| Hi I am Vince and I just started using Vista build 5384-2 and I am
||||| having a problem with loading office 2007 says the certificate is
||||| no good whats up with that. Are they going to wait for the release
||||| before we can test office 2007. Also IE7b2 doesn't work eather.
|||||
||||| "- Bobb -" wrote:
|||||
|||||
|||||| I've used Vista 5308 for a while and I just now
|||||| downloaded/installed Office 2007 beta 2.
|||||| From available Office 2007 downloads, I chose and installed:
|||||| Office Pro
|||||| Outlook Business Contact Mgr
|||||| One Note
|||||| Project
||||||
|||||| I did not "register for support" after any of the apps installed.
|||||| I rebooted before trying any apps ( figuring I'd then register)
|||||| and when I try to run any of them I get an error and a popup
|||||| asking if I'd like to send an error report to MSFT. I don't know
|||||| / it doesn't tell me what the error is , BUT in Control Panel -
|||||| Solutions - it does say that it is a known error and will be
|||||| fixed in the next release. Am I on Candid Camera ? My download
|||||| is 2 hours old and it's a KNOWN bug and will be fixed Next time
|||||| - No office app even STARTS ( yes i'm yelling at my PC) !!!
||||||
|||||| Perhaps Office 2007 Beta and Vista Beta don't work together ?
|||||| Although I thought that THAT was the whole idea ? I sent them
|||||| this text as feedback. Any suggestions to get this going ? I'm
|||||| off to look for answers ( someplace other than MSFT website
|||||| which doesn't offer me any solution). Bobb