I am planing to use msoffice module to install MS Office but the machine I am planning it to be installed on, doesn't have internet connection. Does the module download the installer from a website which in turn requires an active internet connection?
Does the module download the installer from a website which in turn requires an active internet connection?
Examining the module source would reveal that no, it does not. It relies on an image of the installation media for each product to be accessible via the target node's filesystem, and you would have to arrange for that separately. With respect to that, each of the user-facing classes and defined types provided by the module does have a parameter deployment_root, defined as:
The network location where the office installation media is stored
That turns out to be used as a path prefix, apparently with the idea that the installation media might be on an accessible network share (not the Internet), as opposed to being on a local disk. I imagine that situation is fairly common for users of the module.
Thus, having an Internet connection is not directly relevant to this module, but having access to installation media is another matter entirely.
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During the installation of exchangelib the installation tries to connect to the internet to get dependencies.
On this computer it is not possible to to open the firewalls to provide the access - it is a very restricted system.
Is there a way for an offline installation of the exchangelib?
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Klaus Heubisch
You have a couple of different possibilities. I think the most simple one is to create a virtualenv on a system that does have Internet access and install exchangelib and its dependencies there. You can then copy that virtualenv to the system with no Internet access.
Virtualenvs contain absolute paths, so you would need to either copy it to the same path on the other server, or make the virtualenv relocatable.
I am getting started with Office Add-ins through the Java script API. I am going through this tutorial. When I proceed with the Try It Out section. I get this error. I am getting the add-in to run fine when I give the absolute path in the source location node of the manifest for example E:\Excel-Add-in-Javascript\first-excel-addin\Home.html but its the relative path that is not working for example \\SAAD\Excel-Add-in-Javascript\first-excel-addin\Home.html Kindly let me know if you a solution.
The source location node should not contain a relative path. It should use a complete path, either on the internet or on a network share.
In your case, you need to make \\SAAD a network share, not just a folder.
I don't think that serving from the file path (file:///C:/Users/username/Desktop/something.html) or share is a supported scenario. It may work, but note that it will run differently (and sometimes not run, or be overly permissive) than when you deploy the app for real.
To be clear, you can have a manifest file on a network share for ease of testing the add-in -- and in fact, it's the easiest way to get your add-in registered with Office desktop. But the web content should be served off of a web server (anything from hosting via an IIS local-host web server, to using an Azure Website, to putting your content on github and serving it via https://rawgit.com/).
Let say i have a cross-platform runnable application
This application create then read/write some data and preference in external files
Bundle hierarchy is as follow:
ApplicationFolder/application.jar
ApplicationFolder/database.odb
ApplicationFolder/config.xml
Whether it's on a Mac, Windows or Linux, the application knows that everything is next to her (ie: /database.odb or /config.xml)
Now comes the Self Contained Application feature provided by JavaFx 2
The application is embedded in .exe on Windows, .app on Mac and don't know yet about Linux...
As a Mac user i've tested it on Mac and saw that database.odb and config.xml are now created at the user root path
I thus agree that i should think of a cross-platform mechanism to save/read my application preferences regarding the operating system
But i'm not quite sure of what to do and how to do it (can't find any googling help either..)
On windows, the .exe is installed in a folder, so i guess i can keep the same behavior
On Mac, the .app is a folder and i should keep everything inside (how to get the .app path ?!)
Isn't there a built-in mechanism in Java/JavaFx ?
Thanks a lot for any comment, advice, documentation or else that you could give me
Badisi
There are many ways to do this. I have listed some of them here in no particular order. The recommended approach depends on the type of data being stored.
Java provides a couple of mechanisms (e.g. the properties API and the preferences API) for maintaining application preferences.
If your application is sophisticated enough to benefit from an database, then you might want to use Java EE or Spring, both of which have their own configuration mechanisms.
For read-only configuration, you can bundle the relevant files inside your application jar.
To store customized application configuration files or client application wide databases in relative to the application jar, write the required files at runtime. See How do I get the directory that the currently executing jar file is in?.
For user specific configuration, use System.getProperty("user.home") to retrieve the user's home directory, then create a subdirectory for your preference storage (for example "{$user.dir}/.myapp") with hidden file attributes so that it doesn't show up on a standard file directory list.
If your app relies on internet connectivity, then you can store some of this information server side rather than the client and make use of it from the client using internet protocols. An advantage of this approach is that user configuration and data is automatically ported across client machines.
I have a SharePoint website I need to move to another completely different server.
Can I do this by simply copying files from IIS to the other server's IIS folder?
I assume I need to copy the database as well as change the config file's database connection.
I assume I don't need to install anything on the server other than ftp files across i.e. I don't need to install files via an installer or exe.
The short answer is no.
SharePoint includes Service applications (ex. OWSTimer) that have to be registered and installed.
Also there are COM components that must be registered properly.
Since 2005, when Microsoft prevented HtmlHelp functioning off a network share, e.g.:
\\appserver\tos\PointScanner.exe
\\appserver\tos\PointScanner.chm
What are we supposed to do instead?
(Given that the application is not installed locally.)
To rephrase: What is Microsoft's intended, supported, out-of-the-box, help solution?
You can allow access via the Registry setting described here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054/
If you don't want to open any security vulnerabilities by modifying Registry settings your application could also create a local copy of the .chm file, e.g. in the users temp folder (%TMP%) and open the help from there. You can remove the file again when your application exits (in case you don't want to leave anything behind on the user's workstation)
I started with the registry change mentioned by divo. Eventually I moved from network folder based chm files to actual "html help". This was easy for me since I use RoboHelp which can generate either format from the same source code.