Installing Office 2003 After Outlook 2003

We have deployed Outlook 2003 to many of our computers while keeping
the rest of Office XP. We created a custom transform file that removed
previous versions of Outlook, installed Outlook 2003 from an admin
installation point, and customized certain things.

Now we want to install the rest of the Office 2003 products from the
same admin installation point. We created a custom transform file for
Office 2003 that removes previous versions of
Word/Excel/PowerPoint/etc. The problem is that when we run the
install, nothing gets updated. Word/Excel/PowerPoint XP are still
there along with Outlook 2003. I've been reading websites and
newsgroups to figure out what is going wrong, but I'm wondering if
anyone here could offer some advice and/or direction.

Thanks for your time!
Aaron

I think I've gotten one step further with this. In the transform for
the Outlook 2003 install, I specified that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc
all be Not Available, Hidden, and Locked. I can't remember why I did
this. But we have 100 or so computers that had Outlook 2003 installed
this way. How can I upgrade the rest of Office on those computers?

I know that you wrote this a long time ago, but it took me a while to
investigate this problem (other things took priority). Like you we are
planning to install Outlook 2003 than at a later date the rest of
Office. While testing, I came across the same problem that the rest of
Office would not install.

In the Office 2003 Resource Kit there is a Maintenance Wizard. This is
what you use to make a (and all of this is at the office & I'm at home
so I'm probably a little off) .c?w file. This is similar to the .mst
file from the Setup Wizard. As part of this Maintenance wizard you can
say what bits and pieces you want to add/modify. It's fairly straight
forward.

The only drawback I've seen is that there is no option for deleting
previous versions (in our case O2K, your OXP) of the office program, so
in my initial testing, I've ended up with both versions of Office with
the exception of Outlook which we used the setup wizard.

More testing to follow as I get time.

Jim

Aaron Wright wrote:
We have deployed Outlook 2003 to many of our computers while keeping
the rest of Office XP. We created a custom transform file that removed
previous versions of Outlook, installed Outlook 2003 from an admin
installation point, and customized certain things.

Now we want to install the rest of the Office 2003 products from the
same admin installation point. We created a custom transform file for
Office 2003 that removes previous versions of
Word/Excel/PowerPoint/etc. The problem is that when we run the
install, nothing gets updated. Word/Excel/PowerPoint XP are still
there along with Outlook 2003. I've been reading websites and
newsgroups to figure out what is going wrong, but I'm wondering if
anyone here could offer some advice and/or direction.

Thanks for your time!
Aaron

Aaron,

I just posted a solution for this (for your first posting,) or at least
as far as I've gotten. In the initial transform you made the non-Outlook
programs Not Available, Hidden and Locked, so they would not install.

For some reason you cannot use setup (I guess the OS thinks you've
installed it once and now won't let you install again.) Use the
Maintenance Wizard (my naming might be off as I have the Resource kit
installed at the Office & not at home, where I can read the newsgroups)
to install the rest of Office 2003.

My initial testing proved effective today with tthe exception that there
was no way to remove the previous version of Office.

Jim

Aaron Wright wrote:
I think I've gotten one step further with this. In the transform for
the Outlook 2003 install, I specified that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc
all be Not Available, Hidden, and Locked. I can't remember why I did
this. But we have 100 or so computers that had Outlook 2003 installed
this way. How can I upgrade the rest of Office on those computers?

Thanks for the reply. The information is very helpful.

Here's something that might be helpful to you. While I was checking
into the problem I read about a utility called offcln.exe. Basically
it reads a file and removes any of the entries in that file. You can
create your own, but there is a "global" file provided already named
Oclncore.opc. All the files you should need are in
\files\pfiles\msoffice\office11. It could be easily scripted.

Aaron,

I was fooling around on the Microsoft site and found some good URLs for
using the install and maintenance wizards.

Both are available via this one URL

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...513681033.aspx

and if you want to know about rolling in patches to an admin install point:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...525741033.aspx

Jim


Aaron Wright wrote:
Thanks for the reply. The information is very helpful.

Here's something that might be helpful to you. While I was checking
into the problem I read about a utility called offcln.exe. Basically
it reads a file and removes any of the entries in that file. You can
create your own, but there is a "global" file provided already named
Oclncore.opc. All the files you should need are in
\files\pfiles\msoffice\office11. It could be easily scripted.