Installed Office 2003. Outlook Cant Find Word for Domain Users?

[Scott Townsend]

I've upgraded our TS to Office 2003 from Office XP.

When a normal domain user tries to use Word to Compose mail it gives them an
error:
Microsoft Word is set to be your e-mail editor, however, Word is
unavailable, not installed, or is not the same version as Outlook.
The Outlook e-mail editor will be used instead.

Even if they launch Word first, it gives the Error.

Logging in as a domain admin does not give the Error.

What Gives??

Thanks,
Scott<-

 

[Lee]

Scott,
I am having a similar issue. We are running server 2003 with
office XP and outlook 2003. The system doesn't like it. If you are not
running server 2003, you may want to check into it. It seems MS wants
everything to be the same running (ie 2003, XP, 2000). Also, if you are
running server 2003, do you know how to make vbscript work for designing
forms? Our terms won't allow it. Thanks.
PS, also check to see if you have some patches available, this may fix the
problem.

 

[SgtRich]

I am having a similar issue. We are running server 2003 with
office XP and outlook 2003. The system doesn't like it.

If you've only upgraded Outlook to the 2003 version, you cannot use Word as
the editor in Outlook. Versions of Word and Outlook must match in order for
them to work together.

 

[Scott Townsend]

Hey Lee,

We are running:
Server 2000 (Latest SP and Updates...)
Office Standard 2003
FrontPage Std 2003
Project 2000
Visio 2000

We do not want to upgrade to 2003 yet. We are in the Process of Upgrading
an accounting System which we will use Terminal Services to access and at
that point we'll upgrade to Server 2003, though that wont be till June or
so.

We have not looked into Form Designing on the machine, though Forms that we
have designed seem to work okay on the TS.

We have an issue with Non-Admins loading websites with Flash on them. TS
does not think its installed and wont let the users install it. its there
and works fine for my Login account... )-;

Thanks,
Scott<-

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

There's no need whatsoever to have the same version of Office and
OS (like both being 2003). I run Office97 on 2003. I don't like it,
but it works perfectly. Same for Flash.

Seems to me that both the Office and the Flash problem could have a
common cause: the Terminal Server was not in install mode when the
programs were installed.

 

[Scott Townsend]

Well I've got around to reinstalling Office2003 in Install Mode. Though I
just did a Re-Install, not a uninstall, re-install.

Same issue.

Also now when new users log in to mail the first time, it does not have the
proper mail settings, comes up with Testuser and a really old mail server
name.

Guess I missed that in the Transform file?

Thanks,
Scott<-