Subj:	Installing MS Office 95 to NW 3 server (read/only)

							30 Sept 1995
	This is an addendum to the long saga of installing Windows 95
and accessories to NW servers which are read-only and the clients are
diskless.
	MS Office 95 is a real problem to install because it wants to use
long filenames, and that means one would need to employ a MS network shell 
and add OS/2 namespace to the server (there go our directory cache buffers).
Further, installation fails completely if we run  setup /F  to a file server,
as instructed by a popup screen during such an attempt. We use VLMs and no 
OS/2 namespace.
	Well, there are ways and ways. Rich Blake, my student supervisor
(supervisor of other student consultants) kept banging away on the problem
and we found a solution. It's an install & transfer solution.
	Assume sys:win95 holds Win95, and that all user GUEST's have their
working area within sys:win95\user, and they have only Read/Find access.
	Put a temp hard drive on a client. Install Win95 on it. Copy existing
Win95 files to the client, so the registry and .ini files and all that jazz
are the same. Use SUBST or MAP ROOT to fake NW and DOS/Win95 into thinking 
the local hard drive letter is the same as one normally uses on NW (say F:)
to keep the sundry full filenames the same everywhere.
	Now install MS Office 95 to the local drive (F:) using  setup /F.
/F converts long filenames to short ones. When done we do the other steps.
Make a directory on the server of the same name as on the temp hard disk,
F:\msoff95 in my case. Ncopy *.* /s/e from hard to server. Also copy the
\win95\user\msapps directory contents to the server ("user" is the client
particular storage area, and it need not be under \win95). Copy *.ini
files to \win95\user so the extra lines for MS Office 95 are available.
	About seven files need to go into sys:win95\system during the process.
It's easy to spot them by doing a directory listing of that directory on both 
client (with MS Office 95) and server, and differencing the two. Move the files
by hand; there is no collision with existing files. Differencing directory 
listings is a good idea in general to spot tiny changes.
	The last step is to copy system.dat and user.dat registry files
to the server. The safest method is to use regedit, export the hard drive
registry to a simple text file, put that file somewhere on the server.
Then reboot and log into the server, use regedit again and import that
file; the result is a merging of old and new registries. You may want
to clean up the registry by removing old junque.
	Finally, create a shortcut pointing to the MS Office 95 icons,
adjust window sizes and positions, click on every Help (and within that
on each Find) button to create the helper files (see scribe icon work),
and that's that. Remove temp hard drive. It's a clean installation, and 
it does not clutter the Start menu.
	Joe D.