SMS 2003 install of Office 2003

[Joel]

I am trying to install Office 2003 using SMS. We
currently have 60 licenses for Office 2003, however each
licence has a separate Product Key (no volume licence).
How do you specify a separate product key in SMS for each
installation. This will be pushed to 60 users. Is this
scenario possible, or will we have to visit each desktop?

Thanks,

Joel

 

[Sloan Crayton [MS]]

Joel, you're not going to like the answer, but retail Office 2003 product is
not intended for deployment. So there is no mechanism that I know of for
doing this (but I'm not an expert in SMS). The best solution is to convert
the licenses to Open License so that you can use a single Product Key. I
know this won't be free, however, which may not make that feasible.

Even if you find a way to deal with this problem, you'll still be faced with
performing License Activation on all of these client machines, too.

Sloan Crayton
Microsoft

 

[Sloan Crayton [MS]]

Joel, you're not going to like the answer, but retail Office 2003 product is
not intended for deployment. So there is no mechanism that I know of for
doing this (but I'm not an expert in SMS). The best solution is to convert
the licenses to Open License so that you can use a single Product Key. I
know this won't be free, however, which may not make that feasible.

Even if you find a way to deal with this problem, you'll still be faced with
performing License Activation on all of these client machines, too.

Sloan Crayton
Microsoft

 

[Sloan Crayton [MS]]

Joel, you're not going to like the answer, but retail Office 2003 product is
not intended for deployment. So there is no mechanism that I know of for
doing this (but I'm not an expert in SMS). The best solution is to convert
the licenses to Open License so that you can use a single Product Key. I
know this won't be free, however, which may not make that feasible.

Even if you find a way to deal with this problem, you'll still be faced with
performing License Activation on all of these client machines, too.

Sloan Crayton
Microsoft

 

[Sloan Crayton [MS]]

Joel, you're not going to like the answer, but retail Office 2003 product is
not intended for deployment. So there is no mechanism that I know of for
doing this (but I'm not an expert in SMS). The best solution is to convert
the licenses to Open License so that you can use a single Product Key. I
know this won't be free, however, which may not make that feasible.

Even if you find a way to deal with this problem, you'll still be faced with
performing License Activation on all of these client machines, too.

Sloan Crayton
Microsoft

 

[Sloan Crayton [MS]]

Joel, you're not going to like the answer, but retail Office 2003 product is
not intended for deployment. So there is no mechanism that I know of for
doing this (but I'm not an expert in SMS). The best solution is to convert
the licenses to Open License so that you can use a single Product Key. I
know this won't be free, however, which may not make that feasible.

Even if you find a way to deal with this problem, you'll still be faced with
performing License Activation on all of these client machines, too.

Sloan Crayton
Microsoft

 

[Sloan Crayton [MS]]

Joel, you're not going to like the answer, but retail Office 2003 product is
not intended for deployment. So there is no mechanism that I know of for
doing this (but I'm not an expert in SMS). The best solution is to convert
the licenses to Open License so that you can use a single Product Key. I
know this won't be free, however, which may not make that feasible.

Even if you find a way to deal with this problem, you'll still be faced with
performing License Activation on all of these client machines, too.

Sloan Crayton
Microsoft

 

[Sloan Crayton [MS]]

Joel, you're not going to like the answer, but retail Office 2003 product is
not intended for deployment. So there is no mechanism that I know of for
doing this (but I'm not an expert in SMS). The best solution is to convert
the licenses to Open License so that you can use a single Product Key. I
know this won't be free, however, which may not make that feasible.

Even if you find a way to deal with this problem, you'll still be faced with
performing License Activation on all of these client machines, too.

Sloan Crayton
Microsoft

 

[Sloan Crayton [MS]]

Joel, you're not going to like the answer, but retail Office 2003 product is
not intended for deployment. So there is no mechanism that I know of for
doing this (but I'm not an expert in SMS). The best solution is to convert
the licenses to Open License so that you can use a single Product Key. I
know this won't be free, however, which may not make that feasible.

Even if you find a way to deal with this problem, you'll still be faced with
performing License Activation on all of these client machines, too.

Sloan Crayton
Microsoft

 

[Sloan Crayton [MS]]

Joel, you're not going to like the answer, but retail Office 2003 product is
not intended for deployment. So there is no mechanism that I know of for
doing this (but I'm not an expert in SMS). The best solution is to convert
the licenses to Open License so that you can use a single Product Key. I
know this won't be free, however, which may not make that feasible.

Even if you find a way to deal with this problem, you'll still be faced with
performing License Activation on all of these client machines, too.

Sloan Crayton
Microsoft