Forcing preinstallation testing

The largest users of spreadsheets are found in the financial services sector.  Security is generally tight in businesses in this line of work, since that is where the money is; and this extends to the workstations used there, which are frequently locked down in ways that intentionally present obstacles to the installation of new software.

Operis has therefore paid particular attention to making the utility responsible for installing the product as robust as possible to awkward situations.  The setup program has been engineered to perform a variety of preinstallation tests, to inspect the environment in which it finds itself and form an impression (but not a certainty) of the likelihood that OAK will run without problems.  These tests are described in the part of this help that describes installing OAK.

By default, the installer displays the results of the preinstallation tests only if one or more of the tests is failed.  It can however, be instructed to display the results of the test whether or not they are passed.

To activate this preinstallation test mode, use the command:

msiexec /i OAK4.msi PRETEST=true  

This can be done

•either, by typing that command at the Windows Command Line, after making current the directory in which the MSI file has been placed

•or, easier, put that line in a .bat file, place it in the same directory as the msi file, and double click on it to run it.