Deploy MS Office2000 + MS Office Outlook 2003

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Tynymynydd

We have corporately decided that we wish to use Outlook2003 as a client for
our imminent new exchange-based infrastructure, but wish to retain Office2000
as the corporate standard for all other components of office.

I understand that two versions of Outlook should not coexist on the same PC,
and I'm trying to build a Group Policy in the Active Directory to deploy an
appropriate package set. I'm having no Joy!

I'm using Office 2000's Custom Installation Wizard to modify the MS Office
2000 Professional deployment to exclude Outlook and remove any previous
versions of office installed (some PC's may have CD-based installations
already). I'm then Using Office 2003's CIW to modify the Office 2003
deployment to ONLY include Outlook 2003, Remove any previous installs of
Outlook2003 but not to remove any other existing office components.

The Net result is chaotic and Unpredictable! In some cases it works fine, In
others only one or the other component set gets loaded (i.e. either
Office2000 without Outlook or Just Outlook 2003)

Checking the event logs shows that the install sequence is always carried
out correctly (i.e. install Office2000 first, then 2003) so I'm somewhat
flummoxed.

Can anyone help?
 

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