SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

"ultred ragnusen" wrote in message
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3. I don't remember who posted this link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120111100736/http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msoffice/pub/X12-30196/X12-30196.exe

You posted that link in your initial post on Feb 23rd.
qp
And then he went to the canonical location for Microsoft Office 2007 Pro,
which he said is a public address on the "wayback"
machine that is for anyone to use (but I redacted a few bits just in case I
understood him wrong).
http://web.archive.org/web/20120111x.../X12-30196.exe
/qp

Glad to hear you've an archived install file if needed later.

Fyi...the 'canonical' link(above) still works(IE, SeaMonkey, Edge on Win10).
- Same file, same size, same digital sig and date.


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On 1/3/2018 02:42, ultred ragnusen wrote:
Nonetheless, for the tribal knowledge, I just tried that URL:
https://products.office.com/en/download-office-2007

Which says "Office 2007 is now retired".
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...007retired.jpg


I downloaded the installer earlier this year using a valid product key,
if I remember correctly.

That page leads to the following page after you hit "Download" under
Micro$oft Office 2007 Resources, which allows you to enter the product key:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...=en-US&ref=o12

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On 1/3/2018 02:42, ultred ragnusen wrote:

Hmmmmmmm.... I appreciate the help, particularly because we're now trying
to summarize for future tribal knowledge lookups, but if it was really that
simple, why did Microsoft Technical support, themselves, use this URL below
to install Microsoft Office 2007 Pro for me over the telephone?

http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent..../X12-30283.exe

I got a "File not found" error when I clicked it from Hong Kong. Maybe
it's a temporary link. Are you sure that you were talking to the real,
authentic Micro$oft tech support in your country?

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:42:20 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

"Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote:

If you have a valid Office 2007 product key, you could download its
installer via Micro$oft's official website.

https://products.office.com/en/download-office-2007

Hmmmmmmm.... I appreciate the help

Mai Wang Poo is a troll. He probably tried the link, saw it
didn't work and posted anyway ...
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ultred ragnusen wrote:
Paul wrote:

Does Heidoc no longer work?
https://s3.postimg.org/jjlidxrir/heidoc_win10.gif
Test it and see ?

Hi Paul ... did you notice that screenshot was one that you posted a while
ago? I was googling for how to use Heidoc, and your helpful posts came up.

Heidoc still works, but the menu could be smaller than before.

Thanks. Had I found Heidoc before I called Microsoft Office Support, I
would have tried that - but the support guys downloaded from this digital
river archive (which doesn't work for me now).
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent..../X12-30283.exe

Microsoft has ways to generate folders like this dynamically.
The folders self-delete on the server side after 24 hours.

This is how Heidoc works too. The folders it gives access to, are
generated on-the-spot on the Microsoft side of the server, and
are valid for 24 hours.

When I bought two copies of Windows 8 electronically a few years
back, the download folder on those only existed for 24 hours.

Paul

"...w¡ñ§±¤ñ" wrote:

3. I don't remember who posted this link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120111100736/http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msoffice/pub/X12-30196/X12-30196.exe

You posted that link in your initial post on Feb 23rd.
qp
And then he went to the canonical location for Microsoft Office 2007 Pro,
which he said is a public address on the "wayback"
machine that is for anyone to use (but I redacted a few bits just in case I
understood him wrong).
http://web.archive.org/web/20120111x.../X12-30196.exe
/qp

Glad to hear you've an archived install file if needed later.

Fyi...the 'canonical' link(above) still works(IE, SeaMonkey, Edge on Win10).
- Same file, same size, same digital sig and date.

I'm confused for two completely separate reasons.

1. I had posted a /redacted/ link, with "x" in place of a half-dozen
characters, and,

2. It doesn't work for me (for whatever reason) now.

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:14:17 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

Paul wrote:

A more important question is *why* you're doing that.

You have to remember that I'm not backing up what /most/ people back up.
Most people back up the "image" and they back it up to a large HDD of some
sort.

There are multiple good reasons why that's the most popular destination
for backups. It doesn't matter *what* you're backing up: disk volume
images, partitions, individual files, whatever. A hard drive is going to
be the most convenient.

I'm backing up individual data files, and they go to a DVD disc.

For me, rsync would work just fine, and in fact, some day, I'll figure out
what works like rsync on Windows since that's the most efficient.

See above for what others do. ;-)

You can back up using regular backup software, and
make the folder or file any size you like.

Nope. The last thing I want is to have /multiple/ discs where I've been
though that drill of one third your stuff on disc 1 and one third on disc 2
and one third on disc 3 where you have to pop in all the discs just to find
what you're lookign for, and Lord help you if you lose one of the discs in
the sequence as the entire sequence is screwed up.

You'll always have multiple DVD's, so unless you have some kind of TOC
system you'll still be sticking discs in until you find the one you
need.

Maybe the software is better nowadays, but I simply want to back up stuff
to DVD /WITHOUT/ having to worry about it spilling over from disc1 to
disc2.

Given your stated goal, it sounds like you'll want to avoid using
optical media and move to hard drive(s).

The easiest way to do that, AFAIK, is to keep the data in separate 4.3GB
directories, where the directory can be backed up to its own DVD disc.

Ugh! From anyone else, I'd suspect a prank, but you have a long history
of taking the long way around the barn so I think you're serious. Now
that you have two sizable hard drives, you have everything you need to
start making proper backups, where proper means no DVDs are involved.

I don't want anything manual other than the minimum, which, with my
KISS method, is simply that Windows won't let me put more than a DVD's
amount of data into any directory as shown in this screenshot I just made
to show X: Y: and Z: drives, each limited to DVD sizes (where I was
experimenting with the final size).

You realize, I suppose, that your claim of wanting to keep things simple
is in direct contradiction to your multi-virtual-folder and multi-DVD
approach. You've gone out of your way to make it as complicated as
possible while claiming to want the opposite.

At the moment, since the original terabyte HDD had its OS bricked by
Microsoft, I now have two terabyte HDDs, so I have more space than I know
what to do with

I have a suggestion. ;-)

Char Jackson wrote:

There are multiple good reasons why that's the most popular destination
for backups. It doesn't matter *what* you're backing up: disk volume
images, partitions, individual files, whatever. A hard drive is going to
be the most convenient.

Yes. And like a battery-based jumper system for a car, the HDD that you
back up to suffers from the same weaknesses as the HDD that you are backing
up.

But, we all agree, it's easy, hence it's more likely to be done.

And that's the important point, isn't it?

You'll always have multiple DVD's, so unless you have some kind of TOC
system you'll still be sticking discs in until you find the one you
need.

That's only partially true that you'll be flipping DVD media. I learned
long ago to label storage media appropriately, so that you know almost
exactly what's on that storage media, at least down to the date and type of
content.

Given your stated goal, it sounds like you'll want to avoid using
optical media and move to hard drive(s).

What I'd love is for a SSD to be as inexpensive as DVD.

Ugh! From anyone else, I'd suspect a prank, but you have a long history
of taking the long way around the barn so I think you're serious. Now
that you have two sizable hard drives, you have everything you need to
start making proper backups, where proper means no DVDs are involved.

Your point is valid. Except that the only safe HDD is a HDD outside the
computer (e.g., from viruses), and the only safe HDD outside a computer is
NOT a USB HDD (for stated reasons).

You realize, I suppose, that your claim of wanting to keep things simple
is in direct contradiction to your multi-virtual-folder and multi-DVD
approach. You've gone out of your way to make it as complicated as
possible while claiming to want the opposite.

Your point is valid that sheer numbers may confuse many people, but for me,
each DVD disk has the advantage that it will never crash, although it has
its own frailties, as we all know.

At the moment, since the original terabyte HDD had its OS bricked by
Microsoft, I now have two terabyte HDDs, so I have more space than I know
what to do with

I have a suggestion. ;-)

Yes. Backup. Except that it's /inside/ the computer, unless I disconnect
the cable /after/ the backup, which is easily enough done so that a virus
can't get to it.

ultred ragnusen wrote:
"...w¡ñ§±¤ñ" wrote:

3. I don't remember who posted this link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120111100736/http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msoffice/pub/X12-30196/X12-30196.exe

You posted that link in your initial post on Feb 23rd.
qp
And then he went to the canonical location for Microsoft Office 2007 Pro,
which he said is a public address on the "wayback"
machine that is for anyone to use (but I redacted a few bits just in case I
understood him wrong).
http://web.archive.org/web/20120111x.../X12-30196.exe
/qp

Glad to hear you've an archived install file if needed later.

Fyi...the 'canonical' link(above) still works(IE, SeaMonkey, Edge on Win10).
- Same file, same size, same digital sig and date.

I'm confused for two completely separate reasons.

1. I had posted a /redacted/ link, with "x" in place of a half-dozen
characters, and,

2. It doesn't work for me (for whatever reason) now.

The 'xxxxx' in the your initial link(the same posted above) may appear
to be significant, but once the link is opened in a browser, the
internet's DNS server will resolve the link to the un-redacted location.


http://web.archive.org/web/201201111.../X12-30196.exe

In some cases one may see a 504 error due to a timeout error on the
destination server yet in other cases(like mine on IE11, SeaMonkey, and
Edge using the respective browser's default settings) the timeout is not
absolute and the ability to download and save is valid.

One can see the proof in the two pics in the following links.
The first pic shows how the 'xxxxx''ed link resolves to the correct
location(web.archive to digital river hosted file) and the download/save
file option.. The second pic shows 3 successful download/saves over the
last 5 days(Feb. 24-28)- Same file, same size, etc. - which will install
O2K7 Pro using a valid product key.

Pic 1
http://wetakepic.com/image/vCiK

Pic 2
http://wetakepic.com/image/vCiD



Incidentally, the above file X12-30196.exe is the file you said(your
initial post) MSFT used to install O2K7 Pro on your machine.
"He downloaded to somewhere (I can't find it anymore) a file named:
X12-30196.exe."

And later confirmed the installation using that file
"Which installed Microsoft Office Pro 2007 after he ran the installer
which brought up a notice that "Microsoft Office 2007 Professional has
been successfully installed"

Which is contrary to your later statement that said:
"...the support guys downloaded from this digital
river archive (which doesn't work for me now).
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/01/32000519-3082940-O12SBATR-NOA/msoffice/pub/X12-30283/X12-30283.exe"
Looking at your initial post you stated x12-30283 didn't work.
"also failed to work on my system using the default browser setup.
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/01/xxxxxxxx-012SBATR-NOA/msoffice/pub/X12-30283/X12-30283.exe"

Keeping track of what happened can be challenging for all of us at times
but based on your info..
For tribal knowledge purposes - X12-30196.exe was the vehicle to install
O2K7 Pro, not X12--30283.exe


If IE11 on Win10 isn't yielding successful results to download x12-30196
then resetting IE11 to its default settings might be a solution to
obtain it, but if not then it would appear you could have other
application software running some other type of interference preventing
that ability.



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Paul wrote:
ultred ragnusen wrote:
Thanks. Had I found Heidoc before I called Microsoft Office Support, I
would have tried that - but the support guys downloaded from this digital
river archive (which doesn't work for me now).
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent..../X12-30283.exe


Microsoft has ways to generate folders like this dynamically.
The folders self-delete on the server side after 24 hours.

+1 to link expiration.

In this case(see the original post) X12-30283.exe was not the file MSFT
used to install O2K7 Pro that link didn't work. The install was
accomplished by using x12-301296 which is O2K7 Pro RTM.
"He downloaded to somewhere (I can't find it anymore) a file named:
X12-30196.exe.
....
Which installed Microsoft Office Pro 2007 after he ran the installer which
brought up a notice that "Microsoft Office 2007 Professional has been
successfully installed"
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...ce2007_11d.jpg
/qp
One can still obtain X12-30196.exe using the same link posted in the
initial thread).


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"Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote in message
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I downloaded the installer earlier this year using a valid product key, if
I remember correctly.

That option only functioned with a valid retail full version product key and
the ability to download O2K7 from that site was discontinued well before
'earlier this year'

You're memory is off by more than a few months.

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On 1/3/2018 16:27, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
"Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote in message
news

I downloaded the installer earlier this year using a valid product
key, if I remember correctly.

That option only functioned with a valid retail full version product key
and the ability to download O2K7 from that site was discontinued well
before 'earlier this year'

You're memory is off by more than a few months.

But that product key option is still there in the webpage. I suppose you
could still do it now. If the service was discontinued, that webpage
should not have a textbox for product key.

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:37:22 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

I have a suggestion. ;-)

Yes. Backup. Except that it's /inside/ the computer, unless I disconnect
the cable /after/ the backup, which is easily enough done so that a virus
can't get to it.



Yes, that protects against some problems such as viruses. But it
doesn't protect against theft of the computer.

A much better solution is buying an inexpensive ($10 or so) external
USB case for it, removing it from the computer, and putting it in the
case. That's also much easier to use than it is to disconnect an
internal cable.

Ken Blake wrote:

Yes. Backup. Except that it's /inside/ the computer, unless I disconnect
the cable /after/ the backup, which is easily enough done so that a virus
can't get to it.



Yes, that protects against some problems such as viruses. But it
doesn't protect against theft of the computer.

I'm very glad that you brought up your valid points, as I am starting to
/like/ the idea of just disconnecting the SATA cable that I bought at Fryes
this week, which is, interestingly at a meter, about 10 times longer than
it needs to be - but - with that length - I can more easily disconnect it
after a backup.

So I'm kind'a liking your suggestion of backing up to the spare HDD (which
I don't know what else I'll do with anyway), and then disconnecting one or
both of the SATA cables.

I would assume that either of the two cables on the SATA HDD would be fine
to disconnect to isolate the HDD after use ... would you concur?

A much better solution is buying an inexpensive ($10 or so) external
USB case for it, removing it from the computer, and putting it in the
case. That's also much easier to use than it is to disconnect an
internal cable.

USB connections to Windows have their own horrid frailties which I'd rather
not tempt fate upon ever again!

On 03/01/2018 11:42 AM, ultred ragnusen wrote:
Ken Blake wrote:

Yes. Backup. Except that it's /inside/ the computer, unless I disconnect
the cable /after/ the backup, which is easily enough done so that a virus
can't get to it.



Yes, that protects against some problems such as viruses. But it
doesn't protect against theft of the computer.

I'm very glad that you brought up your valid points, as I am starting to
/like/ the idea of just disconnecting the SATA cable that I bought at Fryes
this week, which is, interestingly at a meter, about 10 times longer than
it needs to be - but - with that length - I can more easily disconnect it
after a backup.

So I'm kind'a liking your suggestion of backing up to the spare HDD (which
I don't know what else I'll do with anyway), and then disconnecting one or
both of the SATA cables.

I would assume that either of the two cables on the SATA HDD would be fine
to disconnect to isolate the HDD after use ... would you concur?

A much better solution is buying an inexpensive ($10 or so) external
USB case for it, removing it from the computer, and putting it in the
case. That's also much easier to use than it is to disconnect an
internal cable.

USB connections to Windows have their own horrid frailties which I'd rather
not tempt fate upon ever again!

One of the 2 cables is a power cable, Pulling either one will isolate
the drive.

Rene