Dual installation - Office 2003 and 2007

[Old John]

Hi,

Our partner has cca 400 desktop computers with Office 2003 installed. They
want to migrate to Office 2007.

There should be two ways:
- install additional Office 2007 installation and keep currently 2003
- remove (uninstall) Office 2003 and install new installation of Office 2007

What do you suggest for, what should be the easiest way? They prefered
automatic solutions - deployment through GPO, SMS or any other software.

Thnx.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Old John,

Office 2007 has more support focused on tools like SMS than it does on GPO, but both methods are among those supported per the
Office 2007 Resource Kit
http://office.microsoft.com/ork
Using deployment tools you can create multiple solutions that will allow you to customize what is removed and what stays from an
older version. Outlook is the only Office app that can't be dual versioned, and if you leave Outlook 2003 in play then you will be
using its internal editor rather than Word.

This article covers some things to consider when running multiple versions:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091/en-us?FR=1

Licensing for multiple versions in a corporate environment is a different matter that you'd want to look at.
http://microsoft.com/licensing

Hi,

Our partner has cca 400 desktop computers with Office 2003 installed. They
want to migrate to Office 2007.

There should be two ways:
- install additional Office 2007 installation and keep currently 2003
- remove (uninstall) Office 2003 and install new installation of Office 2007

What do you suggest for, what should be the easiest way? They prefered
automatic solutions - deployment through GPO, SMS or any other software.

Thnx. >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Old John]

Hi Bob,

Thnx for your help. Now I'll check for is beeter: clean installation or dual
installation.