Installation Instructions for Hot Fix G36020

Windows


Hot fix G36020 addresses the issue(s) in SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 5.1 on Windows as documented in the Issue(s) Addressed section of the hot fix download page:

https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/G36.html#G36020


The hot fix downloaded, G36020wn.zip, contains the updated files required to address the documented issues.
Do NOT extract the contents of G36020wn.zip. The hot fix installation process will extract the contents as needed.


IMPORTANT NOTES

  1. You must have SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 5.1 installed on your system before applying this hot fix. Refer to SN-35968 for instructions on how to determine which product releases you have installed.

  2. Files delivered in this hot fix will be backed up during the installation process. However, it is good general practice to back up your system before applying updates to software.

  3. You must have Administrator Privileges on your CLIENT or SERVER machine.

  4. All currently active SAS sessions, daemons, spawners and servers must be terminated before applying this hot fix.

  5. This hot fix should be installed using the same userid who performed the initial software installation.


INSTALLATION

The G36020 hot fix for SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 5.1 will be installed using the SAS Deployment Manager (SDM). By default, the SDM will search in the <SASHOME>\InstallMisc\HotFixes\New directory for hot fixes to be applied, but will also prompt for a location if you have downloaded hot fixes to a different directory.

After downloading G36020wn.zip, follow the instructions provided in the SAS Deployment Wizard/SAS Deployment Manager 9.3: User's Guide; see the Applying Hot Fixes for Windows and UNIX section in Chapter 5 -- SAS Deployment Manager Tasks to complete the installation of the hot fix.


POST-INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

  1. After applying the hot fix the following command must be executed from the Add-in for Microsoft Office installation directory to display the localized task names in the menus
    C:\Program Files\SASHome\x86\SASAddinforMicrosoftOffice\5.1> RegTasks.exe /register
    After running this command the task names will appear localized in the SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 5.1 menus.


  2. This hot fix contains updates to SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 5.1 for the languages in the table below. These updates will be installed in !SASHOME\AddInForMicrosoftOffice\5.1\<lang> where <lang> is the code used to represent a specific language.

    To free up disk space, you may choose to delete the <lang> folders for language(s) which you did not select during the original SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 5.1 installation.

    LanguageLanguage code
    Arabicar
    Danishda
    Dutchnl
    Frenchfr
    Germande
    Hebrewiw
    Italianit
    Polishpl
    Russianru
    Spanishes
    Swedishsv
    Turkishtr


This completes the installation of hot fix G36020 on Windows.