MYEE Deployment Number not configured

Question

<b>Hi,
I'm trying to create add the sample yahoo portlets into my page. But when i view the desktop i get the following error in the placeholder</b>
<i>"Yahoo! content not available. Please contact your portal administrator "</i>
<b>The correspondiong error on server side is :</b>
<i>com.bea.myee.core.CoreException: MYEE Deployment Number not configured
at com.bea.myee.portal.YahooUtil.getDeploymentConfigFromUserProfile(Yaho
oUtil.java:245)
at com.bea.myee.portal.YahooUtil.getDeploymentConfig(YahooUtil.java:175)
at com.bea.myee.portal.YahooSession.getDeploymentConfig(YahooSession.jav
a:555)
at com.bea.myee.portal.YahooSession.refreshContent(YahooSession.java:223
)</i>
Is there anything that I'm missing??
Thanks

Answer 1

Basically, I work for a school district and a portion of a web application that our teachers use runs on Java.  This application will most of the time stop working with new updates of Java until they can patch it, which could take weeks or months.  We have our systems locked down so users cannot update Java, but in the newer versions of Java they have been getting the warning messages about Java being out of date.  Most of our users are not very tech savvy so this message confused them and caused a huge influx of help desk calls.  We want to prevent that message from ever displaying.  I was hoping that if I use deployment.properties, it would do these two things (or at least #2):
Apply those settings when Java is installed
Apply those settings when the web application is launched
It's possible that it applies those settings when Java is installed, but the problem is that those settings are per user and not system-wide.  It is definitely not applying the settings when the web application is launched because users are instantly getting the warning messages even with deployment.properties and deployment.config sitting C:\Windows\Sun\Java\Deployment.  Again, the only time deployment.properties settings get applied is if I open the "Configure Java" applet in Control Panel.
We have multiple users logging on to the same computer every day and it's almost never the same users.  We need these settings to apply for every user who has logged into the computer, who is currently logged into the computer, or who will ever log onto the computer in the future.  If these settings can be made system-wide that would be fantastic, but in all my testing and reading, all I ever see happen is deployment.properties settings get written to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\Software\JavaSoft\DeploymentProperties.  Is there any way to get these settings system-wide and not per user?