Sequencing MS Office 2003
While sequencing office 2003 I came around an error that says “This action is only valid for products that are currently installed”.The error occurred when I tried running the applications from the shortcuts placed in Start menu of the local machine instead of launching the shortcuts from Softgrid Sequencer.
Further this was not the case with native installation. Later I found out that the application needs to run from the executable where it is installed which is "Q:\...".When I launched the application from it's installation directory it was launched succesfully.
The reason behind this issue was the virtual environment created by the sequencer that captures all the registry changes made during installation of the application with no changes made to the local machine. The files created at the time of sequencing remain intact whereas the registry changes are captured in the virtual environment and hence not recorded by the local system. That is why local system could not record the installation of the application and it behaves as if no application is installed to the local system.
After this analysis I came to a conclusion that as a standard all applications should either be launched through the softgrid sequencer or directly from the installation directory to avoid any unexpected errors.
Comments
good one
Posted by: jagtar singh | March 7, 2007 09:32 AM
The reason for this error is that SxS were not handled by Sequencer properly. Try sequencing with 4.2 or 4.5. It will work.
Posted by: Mayank Johri | November 22, 2007 12:56 PM