Yes, it’s not a WPF topic but I wasted two hours trying to install Infopath 2007 and was stalled by Beta stupidity. Perhaps it will save someone else the trouble.
Today, I tried to install Infopath 2007. I was immediately stopped with this message.
The 2007 Microsoft Office system does not support upgrading from a prerelease version of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. You must first uninstall any prerelease versions of the 2007 Microsoft Office system products and associated technologies.
Correct the issue(s) listed above and re-run setup.
The Problem
I looked through the Control Panel Add/Remove programs and didn’t see any obvious Office 2007 betas. I rarely install Betas on my laptop, because I don’t like fussing around with leftover junk from bad uninstallers. As you’ll see, that’s exactly what the problem was.
Apparently I installed the ‘Office 2007 Add-in – Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS (Beta)’ as some point. When I installed Office 2007 RTM the installer did not complain. I do remember going to the Office 2007 website a couple weeks ago to install the Save as XPS addin. Apparently the RTM version of the addin, installed over top of the beta and left all the beta crud in the registry.
The Hunt
After the failed install attempt I spent some time looking for the beta and not succeeding. I decided to look for an install log.
In C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Temp I found the SetupExe(datetime).log file. Your datetime value will be different of course. Opening the log file I found the error message shown above. Immediately before the error I found this text.
Catalyst beta product conflict check failed. Office Beta product conflict is detected on the computer, productcode={30120000-00B2-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE}
Opened up Regedit and did a quick search for the GUID and found the following:
Ahhhh. Look at that UninstallString value. That’s’ what I’m looking for.
Open a command prompt, run the following and the problem is solved!
MsiExec.exe /X{30120000-00B2-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE}
-Walt
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Saved me 2 hours
thanks.
Thankyou, I have spent half a day trying to install VS2008 without success until finding this article.
Yes!
I had exactly the same problem with Visual Studio 2008.
I had this product that was in conflict with {30120000-00B2-040C-0000-0000000FF1CE}. So I user the previous command with this Product Number and it worked fine !
VS 2008 installation is going on !
Thank you for your article, it helps me to install Visual Studio 2008!
Impecable, funcionó !!!
Gracias, me sacastes de un gran problema.
Wow saved me about an hour.. already messed up with Visual Studio 2008 before but from now on I’ll avoid it.
Thanks a lot!