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Packaging and Deploying a Word 2000 Project

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Paul Ottewell - 01 Feb 2005 14:31 GMT
I maintain a rather complex Word 2000 project comprising of one global
template and two templates.  It is distributed around my organisation for
installation on Windows 2000 laptops with particularly strong security
policies  I have written my own custom setup macros to install these files
but all too often these fail because the user doesn't have the permissions
required to install files in the  "Program Files" folder.  Manual
installations are perfectly possible - but not ideal.

Does anyone know of an off-the-shelf solution like Wise or InstallShield
that is capable of installing *.dot files, deleting old files, detecting the
location of the Word Startup folder and writing/editing registry entries.  I
have heard of the Office 2000 Package and Deployment Wizard but don't want to
risk buying Office 2000 Developer unless I know it will work.

Any light you can throw on this particular problem would be much
appreciated.  Thank you.
Tom Winter - 01 Feb 2005 20:38 GMT
Don't touch the PDW unless you like problems. Go with InnoSetup
(www.innosetup.com). It's free, well supported, and can do all the things
you need.

One note, if the end users don't have write permissions to Program Files,
not setup program is going to let them write to it. I'm not sure how you've
been able to do manual installations...

-Tom

>I maintain a rather complex Word 2000 project comprising of one global
> template and two templates.  It is distributed around my organisation for
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> Any light you can throw on this particular problem would be much
> appreciated.  Thank you.
 
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