Installing M$ Office 2010 on a Mapped Network Drive

Anubis_386 · Oct 11, 2010

I got Microsoft Office 2010 the other day and wanted to install it on the RAID10 array in my server as opposed to on my SSD but when I went to install it an error message came up saying I couldn't install it to a Network Drive..

Would anyone know how to get around this? Cheers :beer:

Know Nuttin · Oct 11, 2010

did you try mapping the drive?

Anubis_386 · Oct 11, 2010

Yeah the drive is mapped to S:

nd4spdbh2 · Oct 11, 2010

might consider a Symlink to fool the installer that its installing on a local to the computer hard drive rather than a network drive

http://lifehacker.com/5496652/how-to-use-symlinks-in-windows

would just symlink the main office program files folders in both programfiles and program files x86

Anubis_386 · Oct 11, 2010

Good suggestion but when trying to create a Symlink or Hardlink I get an error saying you can't do this with a network drive..

TempliNocturnus · Oct 11, 2010

Hmm you can try creating a vhd on the network share then mounting it and install MS 2010 on the mounted vhd.

Anubis_386 · Oct 11, 2010

What do you mean vhd? .. And how do you go about creating one? Cheers for your replies guys! :beer:

TempliNocturnus · Oct 11, 2010

Anubis_386 said:
What do you mean vhd? .. And how do you go about creating one? Cheers for your replies guys!

Are you running Windows 7?

Anubis_386 · Oct 12, 2010

Yeh, Ultimate 64bit .. I did a little reading on Virtual Hard Disks and it might work, however I read that once you reboot the VHD will no longer to mounted.. I don't know if thats correct, but it wouldn't be very useful if it is.

medo145 · Oct 12, 2010

did you try doing it with subst

TempliNocturnus · Oct 12, 2010

You can use the diskpart utility to execute a script at start-up.

To do this, you need to create two files:
1) A diskpart script containing the following:

Code:

select vdisk file="%path to .vhd%"
attach vdisk

No file extension is necessary when saving this text.
Assign the volume a drive letter once and it should stick when remounted.

2)a .cmd script containing the following:

Code:

diskpart < %path to file created in script 1)%

Save this in the start-up directory and the .vhd should be mounted upon log on.

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