Terminal services client issues.

[dontworx]

I have installed office on terminal server 2003 before with no problems. This time I am not able to open excel or word without an MSI installer popping up and then it telling me I nned to be an administrator to run. Other apps work. It does run fine as an administrator. I added the user into the administrators group to get it to run once and then I took them back out. It still did not work. Any Ideas? Thanks in advance!!!

 

[dberg35]

Did you install Office while in TS mode and are you running in app mode or admin mode? For Office to work you need to be in app mode.

 

[dontworx]

I am in app mode as far as I can tell. I set up a liscense server and can get up to 5 people in. I thought 2003 TS would automatically pause itself when installing an application like office. I have not had to take it out of ts mode before on 2003 server. Even when you open up wordpad a MSI installer opens for a minute and the goes away. The same happens with internet explorer.

 

[dberg35]

I would try uninstalling office and reinstall it again. I had a similar issue and that is what I had to do.

 

[dontworx]

Thanks,
I finally found out the problem. It was a permissions issue. I installed Office to a different drive and I had to give access to the program files folder and it worked. Thanks for the input.