To revive an old thread.

Since Microsoft is now sending letters out saying that we have to upgrade to
SP2 for "legal reasons", are there any updates to this issue, hotfixes,
anything?

The problem still exists.

We are unable to perform this upgrade, well we could hack it, but a machine
that has more working parts, or program that has more lines of code is prone
to more problems.

So if we have to upgrade for "legal reasons" it would be nice for a hotfix
to appear, or anything to make this upgrade work like it should.


Jon,
Are these entries applied to the patched PRO11.msi file? If so after adding
these entries can I then perform the upgrade on the client computers without
the upgrade asking me to locate the pro11.msi file (and not letting me pick
the pro11.msi file on the network)?

"Jon Abbott" wrote:

I have the fix from Microsoft, although you will need to create or modify your
own MST to resolve the issue. MS have no date for a fix to the MSI package
itself.

You need to all the following entries to the MST:

RegKey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engi nes\Excel\win32
Type: STRING
Value: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\msaexp30.dll


RegKey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engi nes\Excel\win32old
Type: STRING
Value: C:\Windows\System32\msexcl40.dll



I implemented I slightly more elegant solution by doing an AppSearch for win32
and using this for the win32old value. I also made both keys part of the
component that msaexp30.dll resides in. If you're happy modifiying MSI/MST
tables through Orca etc, here's the changes:


AppSearch table (1 entry):

Property: JET4EXCEL
Signatu JetWin32Reg



RegLocator table (1 entry):

Signatu JetWin32Reg
Root: 2
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Excel
Name: win32
Type: 2



Registry table (2 entries):

Registry: Access.SP2Fix1
Root: 2
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Excel
Name: win32old
Value: [JET4EXCEL]
Component: Global_Access_Core

Registry: Access.SP2Fix2
Root: 2
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Excel
Name: win32
Value: [#MSAEXP30.DLL]
Component: Global_Access_Core



Regards
Jon Abbott
Clarksons Plc