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David Patterson
I haven't been able to find any info in the Office
Resource Kits or Knowledge Base to what I would think
would be a fairly common question:
My organization has licenses for various versions of
Office (e.g., 2000 Pro, 2000 Premium, XP Pro/Frontpage, XP
Standard) depending on the particular needs of the
classroom or office where the software is deployed. I
have created administrative installation points on our
server for 2000 Premium and XP Pro/Frontpage. I am
wondering if it is possible to deploy the less complete
versions of Office from these installation points (perhaps
just adding the 2000 Pro and XP Standard MSI's to the
install points?) to avoid using up a bunch more server
disk space with separate administrative install points for
what I would think are essentially subsets of my existing
install points. What I've done so far is to use the
Office Custom Installation Wizard to select, for example,
just the 2000 Pro components from the 2000 Premium
installation point; however, this results in 2000 Premium
showing up as the installed program in Add/Remove
Programs, and I'd prefer not to be in a gray area of
licensing if we were to be audited.
Can I avoid a separate administrative install point for
every different version of Office? Are there any white
papers, KB articles, or other resources I can refer to?
Resource Kits or Knowledge Base to what I would think
would be a fairly common question:
My organization has licenses for various versions of
Office (e.g., 2000 Pro, 2000 Premium, XP Pro/Frontpage, XP
Standard) depending on the particular needs of the
classroom or office where the software is deployed. I
have created administrative installation points on our
server for 2000 Premium and XP Pro/Frontpage. I am
wondering if it is possible to deploy the less complete
versions of Office from these installation points (perhaps
just adding the 2000 Pro and XP Standard MSI's to the
install points?) to avoid using up a bunch more server
disk space with separate administrative install points for
what I would think are essentially subsets of my existing
install points. What I've done so far is to use the
Office Custom Installation Wizard to select, for example,
just the 2000 Pro components from the 2000 Premium
installation point; however, this results in 2000 Premium
showing up as the installed program in Add/Remove
Programs, and I'd prefer not to be in a gray area of
licensing if we were to be audited.
Can I avoid a separate administrative install point for
every different version of Office? Are there any white
papers, KB articles, or other resources I can refer to?