Office Professional 2007 Install Microsoft Securit

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Update:
Apparently,Office 2010, this deliver the results all-around is “fixed” by the fine folks at Microsoft. The only option is to install Microsoft ForeFront.
Wow, what a confusing product. It is really designed to run in an environment much larger than my single computer development environment. It took a day to figure out that there were actually two products, server and client. In my situation, I definitely do not want server. And good luck finding information on installing the client. I’m sure it is out there…but I could not find much.
Anyway, once I FINALLY figured out the trick, ForeFront is not as scary as it originally looked.
If you have downloaded the .iso from the MSDN site, you will need to unpack it with something like 7zip. From there, or if you have the CD, open up a command prompt (run as administrator) and navigate to the CLIENT directory (and additionally to the x64 directory if appropriate). At the command line, type “clientsetup.exe /NOMOM” (without the quotes). This does a quick, painless, and silent installation.
ForeFront will immediately do an Internet check for updates. Do the updates and you are done.
The client interface is very similar to Security Essentials…go figure.
Also, I’m not sure why it was so difficult to get this information. It seems that the server install is what everyone is talking about,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, and the client installation is (for some reason) ignored. You would think that this would be pushed at the highest levels as part of the recommended standard development environment…but whatever…I’ve got function to do.
I hope this helps.
Background:
As a SharePoint developer, I’m using WinServer2008R2 as a workstation. I’m sure that there is a way to install everything I need on Windows XP or Windows Vista, or Windows 7, but I’ve always run into issues. So, I simply develop on Windows Server 2008 R2. It simulates the production environment and I just don’t feel like trying to get everything to run on the other operating systems.
With that, I need to have some sort of anti-virus protections. Windows Server 2008 comes with Defender,Microsoft Office 2007 Key, but no anti-virus. Microsoft does have anti-virus for Windows Server 2008, but the anti-virus stuff is really built for what servers do best, and not for the small part of the development community that use server operating systems as a desktop.
So, I was able to get enough information from various places to get Microsoft Security Essentials install and working on Windows Server 2008 R2.
What to do:Download Microsoft Security Essentials x64.
Unpack the downloaded executable. I use 7-Zip…but use whatever you have.
Download Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows. Make sure you get the appropriate version (x64).
Install Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows.
Find WinDbg in the start menu and “Run as Administrator”.
In WinDbg, go to File/Open Executable. Navigate to the previously downloaded and unpacked files from the Microsoft Security Essentials. Locate the setup.exe file and open it. Answer “No” to the question about saving the workspace.
A new window pop up with a command line at the bottom. In the command line enter:bp ntdll!RtlGetNtProductType "as /x ReturnValue rcx; gu; ed ReturnValue 1; g"
All the above command line text should be entered as a single command. After the above command is entered, press Enter.
(Just in case you're wondering, this command sets up a break point that modifies the return value of RtlGetNtProductType)
Next,Office 2007 Professional, enter the letter g in the command line and press Enter.
This will start the Security Essentials anti-virus install program. The debug program will probably regain focus, so you may need to Alt-Tab or click on the install program in the task bar to get focus to the install program. From here, simply follow the normal Security Essentials anti-virus program install procedures. The Security Essentials program runs just fine... This entry was posted on Saturday,Office Professional 2007, February 6th, 2010 at 2:09 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.