RE: Deploying Office 2007 via GPO



i am admin for our department which is in an ou with around 100 machines. we
have been using office 2003 and want to upgrade everything but access at the
time being to 2007. we have the version with enterprise version, and im
currently pushing (via gpo)out or trying to, just the main progs, no groove,
no onenote, no publisher, and no access. Then i push out 2003 access
only(via gpo

my problem is that im not finding consistancy, and programs from 2007 are
being installed i thought i had told not available, hidden and locked (the
four above).
in trying to get the sequence correct, ive installed and uninstalled (by
turning off those gpo's and doing a gpupldate /force on the target machines,
rebooting then turning gpo's back on) doesnt seem to make any desireable
changes.



"Darren King" wrote:

Dear All,

I am attempting to deploy the entire MS Office 2007 Pro-Plus Suite via a GPO
on a Windows 2003 domain.

The clients I am attempting to deploy to currently have MS Office 2003
installed I would like this uninstalled and then MS Office 2007 installed in
it's place. This is made more difficult due to two reasons:

1. Deployment of Office 2007 via GPO does not support use of OCT and you
cannot specify uninstall options in the Config.xml
2. The method I have tried is a software installation package using a
config.xml for a silent install. But being as we didn't deploy Office 2003
via Group Policy it is on workstation images I cannot specify for it to be
uninstalled on the Upgrades tab within the package.

Can anyone advise as to whether they have experienced similar problems? And
if so what means they used to get around this problem?

Does anyone have a script for the uninstallation of Office 2003 then
installation of Office 2007???

Any help is greatly received.

Regards,

Darren



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