Hey I have recently aquired a copy of Map Point and when I goto install it it says you cannot install map point over a network unless u preform an adminstrative installation... and I am the admistrator. So any thoughts on this will be appreciated

Chester:

Follow these instructions from the Help File:

Create an administrative installation location
Place the MapPoint Setup disc in your disc drive.
Open a command prompt window, and enter:
msiexec /a X:\msmap\data.msi
where X is your disc drive location.

The Administrative Installation Wizard starts.

Click Next.
Choose a network location for the administrative installation location, for example, \\machine\share\MapPoint\.
Follow the Administrative Installation Wizard on-screen instructions.
When you are finished creating the administrative installation location, users can install MapPoint either through an advertisement or by browsing to the location and double-clicking setup.exe.

That should do it.. let us know if you have further problems.

Eric

By following the steps you mentioned, I still got same error message as before: You cannot install MapPoint over a network...

If your trying to install it from your HD forget about it. You have to burn it to a CD then install it.

I can't get this to install cause it doesn't recognize the 2nd CD,
What is the Volume name of the 2nd CD supposed to be? "Run Disc"
"Run Disk" "Blah Run Blah Disk" Help - thanks

Check the knowledge base. It is something specific like Geo90NA or Geo90EU.

Eric

Thanks, looking into it...

can't find any thing on this at the knowledge base. stupid
way to install some software...

hehe. Yeah I don't know how common this is.. I found in the MSDN download instructions:

"Note: if you create your own CD-R, ensure the volume label is GEO9NA."

the equivalent for the European version would be GEO9EU.

Eric

Thanks Eric, try it out tonight