Follow these steps to extract the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office stand-alone installer or SAS Enterprise Guide stand-alone installer to a permanent location.

These steps use the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office 7.1 stand-alone installer as an example.

Note: These steps assume that you have access to the executable files for the stand-alone installers.

1. Create a folder that serves as the permanent location. Name it C:\AMO71, or something similar to that. (AMO is an abbreviation for SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office.)
2. From the command prompt, run the following command:
   <path to SASAddInForMicrosoftOffice71_x86_x64.exe>\SASAddInForMicrosoftOffice71_x86_x64.exe /dir=c:\AMO71
3. Select Install in the Ready to Install panel. The file extracts to the C:\AMO71 location.
4. You do not need to complete the installation. At the Choose Language prompt, select Cancel. Then select Finish.
5. At this point, the stand-alone installer is extracted to the permanent location. You can navigate to C:\AMO71 and run setup.exe to install SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office.

Note: Use the same steps above for extracting the SAS Enterprise Guide stand-alone installer. For example, in the command, replace SASAddInForMicrosoftOffice71_x86_x64.exe with SASEnterpriseGuide71_x86_x64.exe. For the folder name for SAS Enterprise Guide, use a name that is similar to C:\EG71. 

Note: After you extract these products to a permanent location, a depot-like structure is created that is similar in appearance to a SAS Software Depot. However, it does not have nor is it intended to have the SAS^® Software Depot Checker Utility. 

Important!

In SAS^® 9.4M6 (TS1M6) Rev. 19w25, with the release of the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office 8.1 stand-alone installer and the SAS Enterprise Guide 8.1 stand-alone installer, the following applies when you are using the steps to extract either stand-alone installer as mentioned in this SAS KB article. When connecting to the SAS Metadata Server, this error will occur as in the example screenshot with SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office.

 

Server response: There was an error loading an encryption algorithm manager. Please check your SAS installation.
 

Workaround

After the extraction process has completed and you are ready to run setup.exe, you must include the following parameters with any other parameters that you might be using:

    -allselectable -defaultproductset -skiplocaleprompt -dotnetdetect

Example: setup.exe -allselectable -defaultproductset -skiplocaleprompt -dotnetdetect

If you are using -record or -quiet with setup.exe, you must include the above parameters.

The above parameters are required with setup.exe beginning in SAS 9.4M6 Rev. 19w25 when you extract the stand-alone installers to a permanent location.