How to create a shortcut to Setup.exe for users to install Office XP with administrator permissions (308304)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office XP Professional
  • Microsoft Office XP Small Business
  • Microsoft Office XP Standard
  • Microsoft Office XP Students and Teachers
  • Microsoft Office XP Developer
  • Microsoft Access 2002
  • Microsoft Excel 2002
  • Microsoft FrontPage 2002
  • Microsoft Outlook 2002
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
  • Microsoft Word 2002
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Users without administrator permissions cannot install Microsoft Office XP. To install Office on computers where users lack administrator permissions, you must run Setup with elevated permissions. This article describes how you can create a shortcut to Setup.exe for users to install Office XP with administrator permissions.

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Create a Shortcut to Setup.exe for Users to Run as Administrators

In Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Microsoft Windows 2000 environments, different groups of users have different levels of rights and permissions. In these environments, default users have limited access to system areas of the computer. Because Office XP Setup updates system files and writes to system areas of the Windows registry, you must have administrator permissions to the computer in order to install Office XP. After Office is installed, users without administrator permissions can run all installed features, including installing features on demand, provided that the initial installation is performed in an elevated context.

If you log on to a computer with an account that has administrator permissions, you automatically install Office XP, the System Files Update, and the MUI Packs from the Office XP Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI Pack) with elevated permissions. However, this method requires that all users have administrator permissions or that an administrator visits every computer.

Under Windows 2000, you can also give users an administrator name and password and have them use the Run as command in order to install Office XP or the Multilingual User Interface Pack in an elevated context. If you create a shortcut to Setup.exe, you can include command-line options to customize the installation.

To create a shortcut to Setup.exe for users:
  1. Create a shortcut to Office XP Setup.exe.
  2. Right-click the shortcut, and then click Properties.
  3. On the Shortcut tab, type your command line in the Target box.
  4. To specify a custom INI file, use the /settings option; to apply a transform, use TRANSFORMS property.
  5. Select the Run as a different user check box, and then click OK.
To distribute the shortcut with the domain, name, and password of the administrator account:
  1. Hold SHIFT and right-click Setup.exe, and then click Run as.
  2. Select Run the program as the following user.
  3. Type the user name, password, and domain of the administrator account.

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Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:2/16/2006
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