Re: Windows 7/Office 2010 rollout

Author: Mike Copeland

Posted: 2011-04-07 at 00:37:13

Tracy,

Regarding your statement

"..create the folder where you copy the local EXE to giving it

Modify access to Authenticated Users..."

Would this be done (and if so, how) by the Innosetup program during

installation? So far, I've had to set this folder attribute manually.

Mike Copeland

> On Wed, April 6, 2011 12:01 pm, Lew wrote:

>> Systems is going to start this conversion in a few months. I'm the only

>> vfp developer, but there are a number of Access& Excel devs as well. Are

>> there any obvious (or not so obvious) gotchas?

>> I realize that the list has been discussing this for some time, but,

>> pigheaded slug that I am, I don't pay any attention until I've actually

>> got to deal with it.

>> Lew

>>

> If you're not using VFP 9 SP 2, you'll have some UI issues to deal with.

> Dave covered many issues I've dealt with.

>

> This isn't Windows 7 specific.

> If you use a loader application that downloads updated EXE's to a local

> workstation. You might run into trouble when a different user logs into

> the machine and runs when an update is needed. The way to avoid this is to

> create the folder where you copy the local EXE to giving it Modify access

> to Authenticated Users, maybe Users.

>

> Tracy

>

>

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