deploy OOo2 w/o registration for users

jm43349

First of all I'm not deploying this till the official 2.0 release. Deploying betas to people other than testers is stupid in my book.

Any hoot, WHEN this OOo2 is official, I'm looking to deploy it via Novell's ZenWorks, which is not hard w/ the .msi. I create a .mst response file and everything installs fine. However I don't have any good way to skip the registration part. I don't mind the service licensing agreement and entering the users name and all, but I don't want someone to get confused on the registration part. Is there some way to get past that?

I did fine the {AppDataFolder}\OpenOffice.org2\user\registry\dataorg\openoffice folder that apparently tells OOo2 that the user has registered and has given there user name, and so on. I included that folder w/ contents into the .mst file and now after the app installs, the app just runs. However this means when the user creates a file, the "created by" will be "user" (the setting in the UserProfile.xcu file). I suppose this will work, but I just wanted to see if there was anyone who knew of a way around the registration window.

Thanks,
Jon

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jm43349 · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:38 am Post subject:

That is what I thought the answer would be. I shouldn't have enven menchioned the Novell part. Just think of using the command line and installing the msi w/ a mst transform. It's all doing the same thing.

Like I said before, that is what I'm doing in the MST. putting the files in the users Application Data folder. But the user name will be "user". Is there a profile editor that the user can edit this w/o editing the xml in the UserProfile.xcu file?

AndrewZ · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:07 pm Post subject:

This was in a recent discussion.

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=24339&highlight=

There is a proper way to disable registration, but it's broken.

Tama · Newbie Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 1

Hi,

I'm having the same problem. I've tried the suggested steps in the links above, but it didn't do anything to remove the registration. I'm just wondering if anything has been done to this "bug" (if it is a bug after all) Confused

AndrewZ · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 2:08 pm Post subject:

Tama,

The nice thing about open source software, and OpenOffice.org in particular, is that development is very transparent. You see the bug's progress, vote for it to be fixed, or subscribe to get updates (the subscription is called a CC list).

Below is the address for the registration problem. It was filed only very recently, so not much as happened yet.

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=55336

AndrewZ · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:34 pm Post subject:

The solution by thomasp works for me. It disables the whole welcome/license/registration dialog.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=100545

I edited C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\share\registry\data\org\openoffice\setup.xcu just replaced the subnodes of the node called Office. (It may work with fewer changes than what I made.) I am posting the whole file here with the changes noted as XML comments.

JENeels · General User Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 6

This worked for me after I registered the first time, it did not require subsequent users to register. Thanks AHZ for your persistence.

anywho · Newbie Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 4

Thanks for this, ahz.

I got it working, but had to use a time and date from a user profile that had already registered (not sure if that made a difference) and I couldn't include the "L10N" node - OpenOffice.org would error out at startup. (And yes, I did change its value to "en-US" for my locale.)

Once I removed it and used the values from a user's Application Data OO.o profile, it worked for me on other user accounts. (Still can't get it to work right for a web server / system account, though.)

thomasp · General User Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Posts: 11

Hi
I don't have to register anymore, but now I cannot make Diagrams in CALC???
Why does this happen? I am not good at xml, so I would be glad if anyone could find the reason in the above xml-file.

thanks in advance
Thomas

AndrewZ · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:54 am Post subject:

Since 2.0.4, there is a command line option to disable the first start wizard:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64615

MerlinT · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:36 am Post subject:

Hi Ahz, what is the full command line installation procedure using '-nofirststartwizard'? Am upgrading from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 on Win2k3 TS for 45 users - this would be a great help.
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Many thanks,
John (merlin) (newbie)

AndrewZ · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:01 am Post subject:

Hi John,

Sorry I was vague. The -nofirststartwizard option not intended for the installer. Rather, it is intended for starting the OOo application, so add -nofirststartwizard to your shortcuts (aka launchers) and file associations. I gave it a quick try, and it seems to work as advertised.

It is interesting, though, that if you first use -nofirststartwizard and later don't, then later you will get the wizard, so be sure to be consistent.

MerlinT · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject:

Hi Ahz, tks for that, yes I thought as much and did try that yesterday as follows: Start/Run "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program\soffice.exe -nofirststartwizard" - also in the shortcut, and get "Windows cannot find "c:\Program Files\ etc etc..." . Make sure you typed the name correctly then try again." ! Perhaps my download doesn't include this if its that new. ? Or am i missing something?
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Many thanks,
John (merlin) (newbie)

AndrewZ · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:16 am Post subject: