A few months ago I tried installing Office 2007 Enterprise Edition and encountered the 1704 installation error. After many failed attempts, I let it go. I am now trying to install it again, as I prefer MS Office to Openoffice.
I have read many, many different posts regarding people being unable to install Office 2007 due to the 1704 error and have followed all the steps from the MS site on how to 'correct' this problem, but to no avail.
It's believed that the error is due to the <CONFIG.MSI> setting file attributes to READ ONLY which borks the installation. It's also believed that is caused by a hotfix/hotfixes. This makes sense since I had not installed Office previously on this installation, but had installed SP1 prior to attempting to install Office.
The problem that I have is that I still cannot find a fix for this. Does anyone actually know WHICH hotfix/es are causing this? Is there actually a work-around available?
I have read many, many different posts regarding people being unable to install Office 2007 due to the 1704 error and have followed all the steps from the MS site on how to 'correct' this problem, but to no avail.
It's believed that the error is due to the <CONFIG.MSI> setting file attributes to READ ONLY which borks the installation. It's also believed that is caused by a hotfix/hotfixes. This makes sense since I had not installed Office previously on this installation, but had installed SP1 prior to attempting to install Office.
The problem that I have is that I still cannot find a fix for this. Does anyone actually know WHICH hotfix/es are causing this? Is there actually a work-around available?
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