Microsoft KB Archive/816947

= &quot;Error 1606: Could not access network location: ?:\MSOCACHE\&quot; error message when you perform an administrative setup of Office 2003 =

Article ID: 816947

Article Last Modified on 2/13/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Excel 2003
 * Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
 * Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
 * Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
 * Microsoft Office Word 2003
 * Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003
 * Microsoft Office Access 2003

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SYMPTOMS
When you try to perform an administrative setup of Microsoft Office 2003, you may receive the following error message:

Error 1606: Could not access network location: ?:\MSOCACHE\



CAUSE
This problem occurs if you use a local cache (CDCACHE) during the administrative setup. For example, if you try use the following command line to perform an administrative setup, the error message listed in the Symptoms section will occur:

msiexec /i  CDCACHE=2

Note The CDCACHE option is only valid when you use the Setup.exe file to perform an administrative setup. See the Microsoft Office 2003 Resource Kit for more information.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, do not use a local cache (CDCACHE) when you use Msiexec.exe to perform an administrative setup.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.

Additional query words: off2003

Keywords: kbwindowsinstaller kberrmsg kbsetup kbprb KB816947

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