Office 2007 upgrade doesn't remove Office 2003

[Mark Hewitson]

Hi,
Our users wun Office 2003. We upgraded Outlook to 2007 using a
customization.MSP file, this is all ok.

Now we wish to upgrade the rest of the Office suite to 2007. I understand
that you cannot run setup.exe /adminfile as Outlook 2007 is already
installed, so what I have done is:
1) modify the customization.MSP file to install the whoel suite and remove
all previous versions of Office.
2) run: msiexec.exe /p customization.MSP

The Office 2007 suite get install fine, but Office 2003 doesn't get removed.
Both versions work.

Any ideas how to automate this?

 

[Sloan Crayton [MSFT]]

Since Office 2007 is already installed, the logic that removes previously
installed versions cannot be triggered in this way. So it would be best to
uninstall Office 2003 via a commandline (which can also be triggered via a
script).

An example of the commandline is ...
Setup.exe /x <path>\<product>.msi /qb-

If you want no UI, then you can substitute '/qn' for '/qb-'.

Sloan Crayton
Microsoft

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| Hi,
| Our users wun Office 2003. We upgraded Outlook to 2007 using a
| customization.MSP file, this is all ok.
|
| Now we wish to upgrade the rest of the Office suite to 2007. I understand
| that you cannot run setup.exe /adminfile as Outlook 2007 is already
| installed, so what I have done is:
| 1) modify the customization.MSP file to install the whoel suite and
remove
| all previous versions of Office.
| 2) run: msiexec.exe /p customization.MSP
|
| The Office 2007 suite get install fine, but Office 2003 doesn't get
removed.
| Both versions work.
|
| Any ideas how to automate this?
|