[THIN] Re: Office 2000 and no assistant installed popup
- From: "Jeff Pitsch" <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:41:10 -0500
I ended up simply disabling the assitant through GPO which seems to work. I
just don't remember this happening in the past but who knows. It's been
many years since I"ve had to install Office 2000 on a terminal server.
Seems pretty bad that MS would release a required MST that doesn't actually
work. heh
Jeff
On 3/16/06, BRUTON, Malcolm, FM <Malcolm.BRUTON@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From my recollection you need to have 1 office assistance installed. You
> then use a policy to disable access to that office assistant. Use the
> static office assistant. A naff way to do it but believe this will work and
> get rid of horrible message. I thought it occurred with all office apps
> though.
>
> Malcolm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *M
> *Sent:* 16 March 2006 01:32
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Office 2000 and no assistant installed popup
>
> Im running 2003 SP1 TS + PS4 here with Office 2000 Sp3 + Patches and i
> dont see that issue at all.
>
> I dont have the latest ms06-0012 patches applied yet.
> The only issue i found with 2003 and Office 2000 was a patch required to
> make it not prompt users to register the software.
>
> What happens if you set the GPO to disable the Office assistant ?
> What entries and values have you got in
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Assistant ?
>
> and
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\Assistant
>
> Any msi installer messages in the event logs ?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 16, 2006 1:16 AM
> *Subject:* [THIN] Office 2000 and no assistant installed popup
>
>
> Ok, so ignore the last email I was able to get the hotfix I needed but it
> didn't fix the problem it was supposed too. Here is the situation: Office
> 2000 SP3 with fully patched. Windows 2003 SP1 fully patched. Word and only
> Word when stated by a user gets the message "There are no Office Assistant
> character files present on the system. Please run Setup in maintenance mode
> and install at least one character." Again, this ONLY happens with Word and
> does it when a user starts Word. It comes up automatically. I've run
> regmon and filemon with nothing showing up to indicate a permissions issue.
> I've installed a hotfix that a MS kb article said fixes the problem (it
> hasn't obviously). I'm at a loss. Office was installed using the proper
> MST that's not it either. Anyone have any ideas? It's been way too long
> since I've dealt with Office 2000 and I don't remember this happening ever
> before. Google turns up tons of info but nothing helpful in this situation.
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
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