Installing Excel 2003 to Windows 2003 Terminal Server

[Guest Will]

After instaling Office 2003 Small Business Edition to a W2K3 Terminal Server

in Application Mode, an ordinary user on the box is unable to start Excel.

Excel 2003 starts to the main windows and then presents the modal dialog

with the error "Feature is not available" and after hitting OK on the dialog

Excel quits.

 

The Microsoft page for installing Office 2003 to a terminal server says that

you can use the non Enterprise versions of Office as long as the users have

individual licenses to use Office, and that is the case here. There are

only two Excel users on this machine and both have licenses reserved to this

one computer.

 

Is there some trick to getting Excel to work for ordinary users in a

Terminal Server install?

 

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Will

[Guest Jeff Pitsch]

Re: Installing Excel 2003 to Windows 2003 Terminal Server

 

Do other office apps work? Can an admin use the Excel?

 

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Will wrote:

> After instaling Office 2003 Small Business Edition to a W2K3 Terminal Server

> in Application Mode, an ordinary user on the box is unable to start Excel.

> Excel 2003 starts to the main windows and then presents the modal dialog

> with the error "Feature is not available" and after hitting OK on the dialog

> Excel quits.

>

> The Microsoft page for installing Office 2003 to a terminal server says that

> you can use the non Enterprise versions of Office as long as the users have

> individual licenses to use Office, and that is the case here. There are

> only two Excel users on this machine and both have licenses reserved to this

> one computer.

>

> Is there some trick to getting Excel to work for ordinary users in a

> Terminal Server install?

>

[Guest Will]

Re: Installing Excel 2003 to Windows 2003 Terminal Server

 

"Jeff Pitsch" <Jeff@Jeffpitschconsulting.com> wrote in message

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> Do other office apps work? Can an admin use the Excel?

 

So the solution to our problem was that until you Activate Office, only the

administrator can use it.

 

Probably Microsoft should work on putting up a relevant error dialog for

this case (i.e., a normal user attempting to use the software before

activation is done).

 

--

Will

> Will wrote:

>> After instaling Office 2003 Small Business Edition to a W2K3 Terminal

>> Server

>> in Application Mode, an ordinary user on the box is unable to start

>> Excel.

>> Excel 2003 starts to the main windows and then presents the modal dialog

>> with the error "Feature is not available" and after hitting OK on the

>> dialog

>> Excel quits.

>>

>> The Microsoft page for installing Office 2003 to a terminal server says

>> that

>> you can use the non Enterprise versions of Office as long as the users

>> have

>> individual licenses to use Office, and that is the case here. There

>> are

>> only two Excel users on this machine and both have licenses reserved to

>> this

>> one computer.

>>

>> Is there some trick to getting Excel to work for ordinary users in a

>> Terminal Server install?

>>