Re: Running Applications from our Local Intranet page only?

I V wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:32:36 +0000, mbstevens wrote:

You may be able to do certain limited things with Excel from its command
line. But if you want the user to be able to actually interact with Excel
or Office in the _usual_ way, and from a remote machine, you need more
than an web server.


I'm not sure the OP wants to run Excel on the remote machine. If she
doesn't, and if all her users' machines have Excel in a predictable
location, a link to the Excel executable may do what she wants, if I
remember correctly.

Of course, that raises the question of why you would _want_ to have a link
on an intranet page that starts an app on the local machine; it would seem
simpler for the users to use a shortcut on their desktop.



Correct really, we dont want to interact with Excel etc, just open the page.

Basically its because all the staff use that intranet for everything, ie its always visible, everything they are doing comes from that, so the idea is, having likes to applications makes things even easier for them.

All i want to be able to do is open the application, not do anything with any data just run say C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Excel.exe from a link, so when the user clicks on the link, that application loads
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