[THIN] Re: visio 2003

  • From: "Greg Reese" <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:51:15 -0500

We were starting to think about this too.  I was thinking about putting
visio viewer in as the default and then putting in the full version into an
AIE.  Just started chewing on this last week though.  We will probably have
the sharepoint problem too.  I am sure between the three of us and anyone
else that chimes in, we can figure it out.

On 10/26/07, M <mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Ive just started looking at something similar myself.
>
> Ive been looking at the following articles.
>
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011403251033.aspx
> Look towards the botto of this page for the behaviour depending on install
> order.
>
> and this one
>
> http://www.sanx.org/tipShow.asp?index=262
>
> Regards
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Stratton, Doug ISMC:EX <Doug.M.Stratton@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Friday, October 26, 2007 9:55 PM
> *Subject:* [THIN] visio 2003
>
> We are using w2k3, cps3, visio viewer and visio 2003 on a set of servers.
>
> We want visio viewer as the default for opening visio files.  Which we
> have enforce via gpo.
>
> When visio opens it sees this and runs msiexec to reset, which the users
> cannot do.  Goes in no problem.
>
> Problem with sharepoint however.  There is an option in sharepoint to "
> edit" with visio.
>
> When this is selected it fails saying The document could not be edited.
> The required application may not be installed properly…..
>
> So I don't really know how to solve this.  What I wanted to try was set
> visio to run with the /noreg command line as a default.  I have searched
> thru the registry and there are tonnes of places where visio.exe is
> referenced so I don't know where to start.  This prevents visio from
> looking at this and msiexec from running.  I don't know if that will make
> sharepoint work or not.
>
> Any suggests for the problem or how to set visio to open with /noreg would
> be helpful.
>
> Regards,
>
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>
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>
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>
>

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