Can we keep their old Office 2003 Settings if Office Group Policyinstallation is used to reinstall?

[windowsname]

All our users have Office 2003 installed from CDs and we now would
like to use our Volume License to manage Office installs via a
Software Installation GPO.
How do you push out an Office 2003 GPO assigned to computers in a way
that will not change their Office settings from the existing Office
2003 installation?

We would like to start using the administrative installation without
having calls from users complaining that their Outlook views are
different, they lost their signatures, they can't find their Personal
Folders and they lost all their Excel macros after the re-
installation.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

The article here is a bit of a thumbnail regarding doing this, bringing Office into a 'managed state'
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307803

More in depth information is available in the Office 2003 Resource Kit
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003

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All our users have Office 2003 installed from CDs and we now would
like to use our Volume License to manage Office installs via a
Software Installation GPO.
How do you push out an Office 2003 GPO assigned to computers in a way
that will not change their Office settings from the existing Office
2003 installation?

We would like to start using the administrative installation without
having calls from users complaining that their Outlook views are
different, they lost their signatures, they can't find their Personal
Folders and they lost all their Excel macros after the re-
installation.>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*