Office 2003 Basic won't publish via group policy

I am trying to publishing Office 2003 Basic with a Windows 2000 Server Group
Policy object but it is not working. I assigned the object to the domain,
verified that the UNC to the MSI file is correct (it runs when you type it
into start-run), and also made sure that no override was set and that it was
not disabled. I also tried placing the computers in a separate OU in the
same manner with a link to the same GPO. The XP Pro clients show no
indication of Office 2003 Basic in All Programs nor on the desktop nor in
Add/Remove Programs. I refreshed group policy, waited 15 minutes, cut and
pasted the working UNC directly from the Start-Run box into the group policy
path, all to no avail. Is this supported and/or what could I be doing wrong?
Thank you!

MS Office 2003 Basic edition is an OEM only (to be
preinstalled with new PCs) edition and usually
doesn't work from an Office Admin Point that would
have an Enterprise/Volume license key installation.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...402011033.aspx

You may want to check with the OEM system builder folks who
have separate tools than those used for a corporate deployment
of Office
http://microsoft.com/oem

You may also want to check with the folks in the Desktop Deployment
newsgroup (link below).

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"MCSE" wrote in message ...
I am trying to publishing Office 2003 Basic with a Windows 2000 Server Group
Policy object but it is not working. I assigned the object to the domain,
verified that the UNC to the MSI file is correct (it runs when you type it
into start-run), and also made sure that no override was set and that it was
not disabled. I also tried placing the computers in a separate OU in the
same manner with a link to the same GPO. The XP Pro clients show no
indication of Office 2003 Basic in All Programs nor on the desktop nor in
Add/Remove Programs. I refreshed group policy, waited 15 minutes, cut and
pasted the working UNC directly from the Start-Run box into the group policy
path, all to no avail. Is this supported and/or what could I be doing wrong?
Thank you!
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