To upgrade IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office, users of the client components must first uninstall the older version and then run a setup file that installs a new version of Microsoft .NET Framework, updates the .NET components, and installs the new version of IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office. To upgrade reports, users must open them in the new version and then save them.
There is no action required to update the server components for IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office. They are included in the upgrade to the new version of IBM Cognos 8.
To support the addition of other IBM Cognos products that work with Microsoft Office, the name used to install the new product is now IBM Cognos 8 for Microsoft Office. This name is used in the installation wizard and in the name of the action pane that appears in your Microsoft Office product after upgrading. In addition, the name of the default installation directory is changed to IBM Cognos 8 for Microsoft Office.
If you deployed IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office enabled files or templates, you do not have to revise the custom properties in the new version. The custom properties and templates are no longer required.
Before you can upgrade to the new version of IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office, you must uninstall the old version.
From the Start menu, click Settings, Control Panel.
Start Add or Remove Programs.
In the list of currently installed programs, click IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office.
Click Remove and follow the instructions.
To install IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office, you run a setup.exe file from the appropriate directory on the product CD or central LAN location. The file installs a security update for Microsoft .NET Framework and then installs the IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office components.
Before you update and install components, ensure that you also
have administrative privileges on the computer
installed Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
uninstalled any previous version of IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office
have the appropriate license to use your IBM Cognos 8 for Microsoft Office product
Insert the IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office disk or go to the location where the installation files were downloaded.
The IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office setup Wizard should open.
If the no setup wizard appears, in the go_office directory on the CD, double-click setup.exe.
At the prompt to install the shared add-in support update for Microsoft .NET Framework, click Install.
A progress dialog appears while the update is installed.
In the Welcome to the IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office Setup Wizard page, click Next.
In the License Agreement page, select I Agree and then click Next.
In the Select Installation Folder page, select the installation directory, such as C:\Program Files\Cognos\Cognos 8 for Microsoft Office\ and then click Next.
If you have already installed one of the IBM Cognos 8 for Microsoft Office components, such as IBM Cognos 8 BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel the folder setting cannot be changed. IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office must be installed in the same location as other IBM Cognos 8 for Microsoft Office products.
We recommend that you use the same user setting for all IBM Cognos 8 for Microsoft Office products. The default setting, Everyone, means that all users who log on to the computer will see IBM Cognos 8 in the toolbar of the Microsoft Office products. If you select Just Me, only the user who installed IBM Cognos 8 for Microsoft Office will see IBM Cognos 8 in the toolbar.
If a dialog box appears, advising you to uninstall a previous version of IBM Cognos 8 product, follow the prompts and uninstall the previous version, and then resume the installation.
In the Confirm Installation page, click Next.
The wizard installs the IBM Cognos 8 Go! Office components.
In the Installation Complete page, click Close.