Outlook 2003 "program is not registered properly"

[GmeMstr]

Okay, this is ridiculous.

I have installed Office 2003 on a Windows 2003 Server SP1 and Outlook
2003 will not launch for regular users. If a user is added to the
local Power Users or Administrators group, the program will launch with
no problem. Other Office apps are unaffected and run just fine.
Domain users have been added to the permissions for the following
registry keys:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office
and
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem

With no joy. Surey this is a permissions issue, but I can find no
references to what those permissions might be.

I have come across NUMEROUS posts with this exact probelm and no
solutions. Surely, someone has this resolved...anyone? Anyone?
Bueller?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Mark Blain]

Okay, this is ridiculous.

I have installed Office 2003 on a Windows 2003 Server SP1 and Outlook
2003 will not launch for regular users. If a user is added to the
local Power Users or Administrators group, the program will launch with
no problem. Other Office apps are unaffected and run just fine.
Domain users have been added to the permissions for the following
registry keys:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office
and
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem

With no joy. Surey this is a permissions issue, but I can find no
references to what those permissions might be.

I have come across NUMEROUS posts with this exact probelm and no
solutions. Surely, someone has this resolved...anyone? Anyone?
Bueller?

Any help would be appreciated.

My place of business offers only Outlook Web Access to thin client
users, but I did a search on your behalf. At least one person
claims to have gotten Outlook 2003 to work:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlook.general/msg/5eae661a6118022a

 

[Sean]

I have Outlook 2003 installed, as part of Office 2003, and it works fine
apart from a few niggles with email replication (no exchange so using pop).

The only difference I think may be that I have it installed on a clean
install of 2K3 Server R2 (fully patched).

I just used the normal installaion technique logged on as admin as a console
user not through a TS session.

What you could try is run outlook with the following switch from start > run

outlook.exe /safe

This generally sorts out any issues I have and the next time outlook is
launched it works fine.

Hope this helps

GD