...because you might get it...
Today I finally got Office 2007 installed on this machine at my client's facility. They even installed OneNote for me.
But I made one small teensy error... I neglected to consider what all I am supporting here, and of course the IT's install policy which involves tromping all over the PC with muddy boots.
Office 2003 was uninstalled, which under normal circumstances would have been a nice surprise, but then I started thinking about the 4 large MS Access applications that I deploy from a server. And of course all my shortcuts to build MDB files disappeared because they pointed out to Office11.
The files are all intact though, so I cranked up one with Access2007 and after a few messages telling me some things were disabled, it came up and ran. Then I started nosing around. I'm familiar with most of Office 2007, but have not had the opportunity to use Access2007 yet, and for the life of me I couldn't find out how to do things such as:
- Compact/Repair
- Compile
- Make MDE
- Make or modify Users or groups
- Make or modify passwords
- running macros
So I looked on the web, and then called the help desk. Turns out they cut me off at the knees... the install is the 'dumb user' install and doesn't allow any of that 'developer' nonsense!
That 20 minutes of sheer glee this morning installing the long-awaited Office 2007 is going to drag out into a long painful process (sound familiar?) ... specifically, the "desktop support" crew is going to have to uninstall Office 2007, then install Access 2003 followed by a custom install of Office 2007 for li'l ol' me that leaves Access 2003 alone. Hopefully this 'custom install' also includes OneNote and all the development stuff they ripped out of Access.
Oh, and one of the web apps threw an error because of something missing as well... sigh
Color me Dismayed.