Office Installation via Group Policy with Existing Outlook 2003 install.

[M. Richmond]

After our company's upgrade to Exchange 2003, Outlook 2003
was purchased seperately and installed on each users
computer. This version of Outlook replaced the one that
was bundled with the Office 2000 installation that existed.

The problem is that the Outlook 2003 installation was
preformed before I got here and was completed by
physically going to each desktop. Now I want to deploy
Office 2003 as a whole via a group policy on the 2003
server but the Office install does not want to remove the
previous Outlook 2003 installation. I don't want to go
around to each desktop to uninstall .. is there any way to
trick the install into removing the seperate Outlook
installation and install its own? alternatively is there a
way to uninstall Outlook 2003 BEFORE the Office setup
begins without going to the desktop?

I know I could just keep the old Outlook 2003 on the
machine but then I would not have any control over it at
all, and would prefer to deploy via group policy. Any
suggestions?

 

[NaMS]

If you get the Office Resource Kit, you can create a custom install that will remove previous versions before it installs, so you can use that to remove the current version of outlook, then reinstall it with the rest of Office (or have it not install).

 

[NaMS]

If you get the Office Resource Kit, you can create a custom install that will remove previous versions before it installs, so you can use that to remove the current version of outlook, then reinstall it with the rest of Office (or have it not install).

 

[NaMS]

If you get the Office Resource Kit, you can create a custom install that will remove previous versions before it installs, so you can use that to remove the current version of outlook, then reinstall it with the rest of Office (or have it not install).

 

[NaMS]

If you get the Office Resource Kit, you can create a custom install that will remove previous versions before it installs, so you can use that to remove the current version of outlook, then reinstall it with the rest of Office (or have it not install).

 

[NaMS]

If you get the Office Resource Kit, you can create a custom install that will remove previous versions before it installs, so you can use that to remove the current version of outlook, then reinstall it with the rest of Office (or have it not install).

 

[NaMS]

If you get the Office Resource Kit, you can create a custom install that will remove previous versions before it installs, so you can use that to remove the current version of outlook, then reinstall it with the rest of Office (or have it not install).

 

[NaMS]

If you get the Office Resource Kit, you can create a custom install that will remove previous versions before it installs, so you can use that to remove the current version of outlook, then reinstall it with the rest of Office (or have it not install).

 

[NaMS]

If you get the Office Resource Kit, you can create a custom install that will remove previous versions before it installs, so you can use that to remove the current version of outlook, then reinstall it with the rest of Office (or have it not install).

 

[NaMS]

If you get the Office Resource Kit, you can create a custom install that will remove previous versions before it installs, so you can use that to remove the current version of outlook, then reinstall it with the rest of Office (or have it not install).