OFF97: Contents of the Microsoft Office 97 SR-1 Patch Readme

Last reviewed: October 6, 1997
Article ID: Q172476

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Office 97 for Windows, Service Release 1 (SR-1)

SUMMARY

This article contains the contents of the Readme file for the Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 1 (SR-1) Patch. To see the online version of this Readme, please see the following Microsoft World Wide Web site:

   http://www.microsoft.com/officefreestuff/office/sr1readme.htm

To obtain the patch, please see the following Microsoft World Wide Web site:

   http://www.microsoft.com/officefreestuff/office/dlpages/sr1off97.htm

NOTE: Because the Microsoft Web sites are constantly updated, the site addresses may change without notice. If this occurs, link to the Microsoft home page at the following address:

   http://www.microsoft.com/

For more information about the Office 97 SR-1 Patch and Patch Update, see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q173431
   TITLE     : OFF97: How to Completely Remove the SR-1 Patch and Patch
               Update

   ARTICLE-ID: Q173990
   TITLE     : OFF97: Troubleshooting the Microsoft Office 97 SR-1 Patch

MORE INFORMATION

MICROSOFT OFFICE 97 SERVICE RELEASE 1 PATCH INSTALLATION READ ME FILE JULY 1997

The Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 1 (SR-1) patch is designed to upgrade your Office 97 installation in place by updating only those files that have changed in SR-1. The patch contains the most significant enhancements in SR-1, including the Word 6.0/95 Binary Converter for Word 97 and the Outlook Internet Mail Enhancement patch.

The SR-1 patch is designed to upgrade the U.S. English versions (not including International English versions) of Microsoft Office 97 Professional Edition, Office 97 Standard Edition, and the individual Office 97 standalone products. Note that this SR-1 patch is not designed to upgrade localized versions of these products. Contact your local subsidiary for information about getting international versions of the Office 97 SR-1 patch.

CONTENTS:

Installing the Service Release 1 Patch Service Release 1 System Requirements Installing the SR-1 Patch On A User Computer Using Command-Line Options SR-1 Patch Log File Running Office 97 Setup After The Sr-1 Patch For More Information

Installing The Service Release 1 Patch

The Office 97 SR-1 patch is a self-contained executable file (SR1Off97.exe) consisting of only the changes made to Office files in Office 97 SR-1. When you run the patch, the patch executable finds the Office 97 files on your computer, determines which components you currently have installed from Office 97, writes the SR-1 changes to those files, and then makes appropriate changes to your Windows Registry.

Service Release 1 System Requirements

The SR-1 patch requires the following service packs be installed before running the patch.

For computers running Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or Windows NT Server 3.51, install service pack 5.
For computers running Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 or Windows NT Server 4.0, install service pack 2 or later.
No service pack is required for computers running Microsoft Windows 95.

For more information on installing Windows NT Service Packs, connect to the Microsoft Windows NT Server Technical Support page at:

http://www.microsoft.com/ntserversupport/content/servicepacks/default.htm

The SR-1 patch requires 32 MB of disk space to run (25 MB if you run the installer executable SR1Off97.exe from CD or floppy disk), and adds up to 8 MB of files to your hard disk.

   These files                             Use this disk space
   -----------------------------------------------------------

   installer executable (SR1Off97.exe)          7 MB
   expanded files                              15 MB
   temporary files used during patching        10 MB
   updated Office files remaining when
     patch is finished                          8 MB

The expanded and temporary files are placed in a Windows temporary folder and removed after the patch is complete. The updated Office files remain on the disk after the computer is rebooted.

Installing the SR-1 Patch On A User Computer

The SR-1 patch only upgrades computers that have Office 97 applications installed locally. If you are running Office 97 from a network server, you must use the SR-1 Enterprise Update to upgrade your computer. To update your network installation of Microsoft Office 97, you need to create a new administrative installation of Microsoft Office using the SR-1 Enterprise Update.

Before installing the SR-1 patch, make sure that you have installed the required service packs for the operating system that you are running. See, "Service Release 1 System Requirements" earlier in this file.

For computers that have the Windows NT file system (NTFS), make sure you have administrative privileges; otherwise, the SR-1 patch will fail while trying to write to the Windows NT Registry.

NOTE: If you need any Office components that you do not currently have installed, install those components on your computer before installing the SR-1 patch. For more information, see "Running Office 97 Setup After the SR-1 Patch," later in this file.

To install the SR-1 patch on a client computer:

Close any open Windows-based applications.
If you are installing the patch from the World Wide Web, connect to the Microsoft Office 97 Service Release Web site and download the patch executable (SR1Off97.exe) to your hard drive.
```
      http://www.microsoft.com/OfficeFreeStuff/Office/DLPages/SR1Off97.htm
```
If you are installing the patch from a CD-ROM, insert the CD in the CD-ROM drive.
If you are installing the patch from floppy disks, insert disk 1 in drive A or B.
In Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0, click Run on the Start menu, and then type path\SR1Off97.exe with the appropriate command-line options, or double-click on the SR1Off97.exe file in Windows or Windows NT Explorer.
In Windows NT Workstation 3.51, click Run on the Program Manager or File Manager File menu, and then type path\SR1Off97.exe with the appropriate command-line options, or double-click on the SR1Off97.exe file in File Manager.
For example, if you download the SR1Off97.exe file to folder C:\Temp, type
```
      C:\Temp\SR1Off97.exe
```
See "Using Command-Line Options" later in this Readme file for information about the various command-line options you can use with the patch utility.
Follow the instructions.
If prompted, reboot the computer to complete the process.

When the patch finishes, your computer is upgraded to Office 97 SR-1.

Similar to Office 97 Setup, you can have users run the patch themselves, or you can automate the process using the same techniques described in Chapter 6, "Customizing Client Installations," in the Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit. See "For More Information" later in this Readme file for information on obtaining the Resource Kit.

The patch executable supports the /Q command-line option, which installs the patch without user intervention.

The 7-MB file SR1Off97.exe, which you download from the Web or run from a CD or floppy disk, is an installer that contains the patch executable and its associated files in a compressed format. When you download this file from the Web and run it, or when you double-click to run it from a CD or floppy disk, it expands to approximately 15 MB of files on your hard drive, including the patch executable itself, Off97SR1.exe. When the patch executable runs, it needs an additional 10 MB of temporary disk space to update your Office files. When the patch completes and the computer is rebooted, up to 8 MB of new and updated Office files remain on the hard disk.

By default, the installer program copies the expanded files into a temporary Windows folder that is deleted when the patch utility finishes the upgrade process. You can specify a different destination folder using the /T command-line option. You can also use the /C command-line option to direct the installer program to copy only the files to the temporary folder, so you can run Off97sr1.exe separately.

Using Command-Line Options

To use command-line options with the patch installer:

Download the patch installer program (SR1Off97.exe) from the Web to your hard drive without running it.
```
    - or -
```
Copy SR1Off97.exe from CD or floppy disk to your hard drive. (You can also run the executable directly from the disk.)
In Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 4.0, click Run on the Start menu, and then type path\SR1Off97.exe with the appropriate command-line options.
```
    - or -
```
In Windows NT Workstation 3.51, click Run on the Program Manager or File Manager File menu, and then type path\SR1Off97.exe with the appropriate command-line options.
For example, if you have downloaded SR1Off97.exe to a folder named C:\Temp, you can run the installer with no user prompts by typing the following:
```
      C:\Temp\SR1Off97.exe /Q
```

The installer recognizes the following command-line options:

   Option       Description
   ----------------------------------------------------------

   /Q           Runs in quiet mode; no user prompts are given.
                The patch will not reboot the computer
                automatically; the user must reboot the
                computer manually before the changes will take
                effect.

   /T:path      Changes the default temporary folder to the
                specified path. The installer program uses the
                specified temporary folder for expanding
                files. Folder contents are not deleted when
                the patch executable finishes.

   /C           Extracts files to the folder specified by the
                /T option, but does not run the patch
                executable.

SR-1 Patch Log File

The patch executable records a log of all the actions it takes. The log file is named 97sr1_0.txt and is created in the Office subfolder of the Microsoft Office folder (default is \Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office). If the patch is run more than once, additional log files are created with the names 97sr1_1.txt, 97sr1_2.txt, and so forth.

Running Office 97 Setup After The Sr-1 Patch

If you need to run Office 97 Setup to add an Office application (Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, or Word) after running the patch, then you must run the patch again to update the additional files.

If you need to run Office 97 Setup to add any individual components (such as Equation Editor or the Word Address Book) after running the patch, you cannot run the patch again to update the additional files. Instead, you may need to remove Office 97, install it with the additional components, and then run the patch again. For more information on adding Office 97 components after running the SR-1 patch, connect to the Microsoft Technical Support Knowledge Base at:

   http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q166/6/71.asp

If you need to return a client computer to the original Office 97 version, use Office 97 Setup to remove Office and then install it again.

To reinstall Office 97 after the SR-1 patch:

Close all Windows-based applications.
In Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 4.0, point to Settings on the Start menu, and then click Control Panel.
```
    - or -
```
In Windows NT Workstation 3.51, double-click the Control Panel icon in Program Manager.
Double-click Add/Remove Programs.
Double-click Microsoft Office 97, Standard Edition, or Microsoft Office 97, Professional Edition.
This starts the Office 97 Setup program.
Click Remove All.
Setup removes all Office 97 files, including SR-1 modifications, but leaves any user files created using Office 97 applications.
Run Setup from the original Office 97 network server, CD, or floppy disk to install Office 97. For more information, see "Installing Office from the Network" in Chapter 4, "Installing Microsoft Office," in the Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit.

This will remove all the modifications made to Office files by the patch and return Office 97 applications to the original version.

Some of the system files modified by the patch will remain on the computer, but this does not affect the operation of Office 97 or other applications. The following system files are modified by the SR-1 patch and are not returned to their original versions when Office 97 is removed and reinstalled. Do not attempt to manually remove these files because they are used by Office and other Windows applications.

   This file     Remains in this folder
   ------------------------------------

   advpack.dll   Windows\System
   asycfilt.dll  Windows\System
   contab32.dll  Windows\System
   hlink.dll     Windows\System
   inetab32.dll  Windows\System
   minet32.dll   Windows\System
   msencode.dll  Windows\System
   msexcl35.dll  Windows\System
   msjet35.dll   Windows\System
   msjint35.dll  Windows\System
   msjter.dll    Windows\System
   msrd2x35.dll  Windows\System
   msrepl35.dll  Windows\System
   mstext35.dll  Windows\System
   msxbse35.dll  Windows\System
   oleaut32.dll  Windows\System
   olepro32.dll  Windows\System
   outlcomm.dll  Windows\System
   t2embed.dll   Windows\System
   inetcomm.hlp  Windows\Help

For More Information

For more information, see the following references.

For more information about Office 97 SR-1, connect to

      http://www.microsoft.com/office/office97/servicerelease/

For more information about installing Office 97, see Chapter 4, "Installing Microsoft Office," in the Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit. See below for information on obtaining the Resource Kit.

For more information about Exchange Server 5.0 Service Pack 1, connect to

      http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q166/0/24.asp

For more information about Office updates included in the SR-1 patch, connect to
```
      http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q150/6/13.asp
```
For more information about additional updates in the SR-1 Enterprise Update, connect to
```
      http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q156/5/42.asp
```

The Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit is published by Microsoft Press and is available at your local bookseller's. You can also order the Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit directly from Microsoft Press:

In the U.S., call 1-800-MSPRESS, Dept. FSUP.
In Canada, call 1-800-667-1115.
CompuServe members may order through GO MSP.
Outside the U.S. and Canada, fax to International Coordinator, +(425) 936-7329, or contact your local Microsoft subsidiary.

The Resource Kit is also available on the World-Wide Web at the following URL: "http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/".

More information on issues presented in this file can also be obtained by contacting Microsoft Technical Support. For information on what support services are available from Microsoft, you can use the Help menu in any Office application. From the Help menu, click "About [Office application]", then click "Tech Support".

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Last reviewed: October 6, 1997
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