Office 95, 97, 2000, and 2003 are not supported in a clustered environment (188984)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office 2000
  • the operating system: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
  • Microsoft Cluster Server
  • Microsoft Office 97 Professional Edition for Windows
  • Microsoft Office for Windows 95 Professional edition
  • Microsoft Office for Windows 95, Standard edition
  • Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition for Windows
  • Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003
  • Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
  • Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003
  • Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
  • Microsoft Office Students and Teachers Edition 2003
This article was previously published under Q188984

SUMMARY

Microsoft Cluster Server does not support the ability to fail over Microsoft Office products. These products are not cluster-aware, although it is possible to install Office into the shared small computer system interface (SCSI) drive they do not fail over correctly and are not supported as a failover application.

MORE INFORMATION

The commercially reasonable effort to make this work in a limited fashion on a Windows 95 client is to disable Osa.exe and Findfast.exe from the Startup group on the client computer. This lets the client quit the application and restart the application if need be. On a computer running Windows NT Workstation or Windows NT Server, you can quit the process by going to the Processes tab in Task Manager, and then by clicking End Process on the Osa.exe application.
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

818212 How to use Office XP in a clustered server environment

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:1/10/2006
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