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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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