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Bob Buckland ?:-\)
Office 2000 Series products tended to have
more applications (Photodraw, FrontPage, Small Business Tools)
from multiple CDs than the single CD Office 2003 has.
On installing Office 2003, either manually or from an
Admin Point it only replaces 'like programs' and leaves
the others. It usually will not remove the Office folders
to be sure that it isn't removing user files that someone
may have installed there. You'd need to do some cleanup
through another process if you want to yank out the old
product entirely.
Office 2003 usually puts itself into a subfolder of
a previous MS Office installation, but it doesn't
put itself into the same folder as Office 2000.
http://microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/two/ch4/DepB03.htm
The default installation point would be
<drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11
You can try adding the INSTALLLOCATION=
property in the Settings file (setup.ini)
(you may still get a subfolder)
but what you may want to try is doing a manual
setup from your Admin point using verbose logging
to track to see what is going on.
The MST is basically mimicing the steps you'd
take in a manual install/upgrade so you should
see the same basic results by doing a manual install
and specifying a custom location.
Be sure that you're using the same User/profile/permissions
for the manual test that you used with the MST.
It may be that you don't have permissions needed to
work with all of the folders you're calling out or
the registry.
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Yes I am using the Volume license product. The process does not require a
previous product for upgrade validation, however when installing Office 2003
it check to see if a previous version exists, and then will upgrade/migrate
accordingly. I have set the MST file to remove all previous versions,
however it does not actually remove all of the office 2000 componenets (tracs
are left), and does not remove the the off2000 folder it was prreviously
installed in. I have read several articles on the process of removing Office
2000, however there is no defined method that fully removes the product.
Not to sure where to go from here. >>
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Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx
more applications (Photodraw, FrontPage, Small Business Tools)
from multiple CDs than the single CD Office 2003 has.
On installing Office 2003, either manually or from an
Admin Point it only replaces 'like programs' and leaves
the others. It usually will not remove the Office folders
to be sure that it isn't removing user files that someone
may have installed there. You'd need to do some cleanup
through another process if you want to yank out the old
product entirely.
Office 2003 usually puts itself into a subfolder of
a previous MS Office installation, but it doesn't
put itself into the same folder as Office 2000.
http://microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/two/ch4/DepB03.htm
The default installation point would be
<drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11
You can try adding the INSTALLLOCATION=
property in the Settings file (setup.ini)
(you may still get a subfolder)
but what you may want to try is doing a manual
setup from your Admin point using verbose logging
to track to see what is going on.
The MST is basically mimicing the steps you'd
take in a manual install/upgrade so you should
see the same basic results by doing a manual install
and specifying a custom location.
Be sure that you're using the same User/profile/permissions
for the manual test that you used with the MST.
It may be that you don't have permissions needed to
work with all of the folders you're calling out or
the registry.
=======
Yes I am using the Volume license product. The process does not require a
previous product for upgrade validation, however when installing Office 2003
it check to see if a previous version exists, and then will upgrade/migrate
accordingly. I have set the MST file to remove all previous versions,
however it does not actually remove all of the office 2000 componenets (tracs
are left), and does not remove the the off2000 folder it was prreviously
installed in. I have read several articles on the process of removing Office
2000, however there is no defined method that fully removes the product.
Not to sure where to go from here. >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx