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marcus
I have been able to install Office 2007 via GPO onto a test machine. What I
needed to happen, was for the original installation of Office 2003 to be
removed prior to 2007 being installed.
What happens is that if the 2003 GPO exists, eventlog shows this was applied
successfully, but then the 2007 GPO does not run. If I remove the 2003 GPO
from the computers membership, then 2007 installs fine, but alongside 2003. I
needed it to remove 2003, instead its left there intact.
There is a setting which is enabled within the GPO which checks first to see
if 2003 was installed by GPO onto the target PC, if it is it then 'Upgrades'
Office to 2007 during which time it removes 2003.
I read on the deployment document that -
Quote:
The following procedure assumes that you deployed the previous version of
Office by using Group Policy Software Installation to assign Office to
computers. If you deployed Office by assigning or publishing the application
to users, or if you used a deployment method other than Group Policy, the
existing version of Office will not be upgraded if you use this procedure.
Instead, the previous version of Office remains on the computer when the 2007
Office release is installed. To remove the previous version of Office you
must uninstall Office.
From that, it would seem to me that what Im trying to do should work, as the
2003 GPO is applied to Computers in my case.
Have any of you got any ideas, or maybe even achieved what Im trying to do
here?
needed to happen, was for the original installation of Office 2003 to be
removed prior to 2007 being installed.
What happens is that if the 2003 GPO exists, eventlog shows this was applied
successfully, but then the 2007 GPO does not run. If I remove the 2003 GPO
from the computers membership, then 2007 installs fine, but alongside 2003. I
needed it to remove 2003, instead its left there intact.
There is a setting which is enabled within the GPO which checks first to see
if 2003 was installed by GPO onto the target PC, if it is it then 'Upgrades'
Office to 2007 during which time it removes 2003.
I read on the deployment document that -
Quote:
The following procedure assumes that you deployed the previous version of
Office by using Group Policy Software Installation to assign Office to
computers. If you deployed Office by assigning or publishing the application
to users, or if you used a deployment method other than Group Policy, the
existing version of Office will not be upgraded if you use this procedure.
Instead, the previous version of Office remains on the computer when the 2007
Office release is installed. To remove the previous version of Office you
must uninstall Office.
From that, it would seem to me that what Im trying to do should work, as the
2003 GPO is applied to Computers in my case.
Have any of you got any ideas, or maybe even achieved what Im trying to do
here?