MSAPPS Shared Applications Always Installed Locally

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Office 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Office for Windows 95, version 7.0
• Microsoft Office for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.2, 4.3
• Microsoft Works for Windows 95, version 4.0

SUMMARY

When you perform an administrative installation of any version of Microsoft Office, you are prompted to choose one of three locations from which to run the shared applications: Server, Local Hard Drive, or User's Choice.

If the SETUP /A is run from a workstation that runs a non-shared, local copy of Microsoft Windows to a network environment that runs from a shared copy of Microsoft Windows, the shared applications will run from the user's local installation of Microsoft Windows, regardless of which option is chosen during Setup (that is, Server, Local Hard Drive, or User's Choice). This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Because Microsoft Office is unable to detect that it is to be run from a shared Windows environment, and is further unable to detect where that shared environment is, it makes an assumption that future changes to the shared installation of Microsoft Windows will also point to this location. Installing Microsoft Office from a computer that runs from the shared installation of Microsoft Windows to the network will not affect the way local installations of Microsoft Windows work. The local users will be able to run the Shared Applications from the network server, their local hard drive, or the user's choice, depending on how the administrator configured the administrative installation.