Reinstalling Office 2000 on Windows 2003 Server

[Jamie Loehr]

I tried to install Office 2000 on my new Windows 2003 Server and the server
let me install it - but when I tried to use Office 2000, I immediately got
the error:

Some default settings in Microsoft Office 2000 setup do not work properly on
a Windows Terminal Server. To install Office on Terminal Server you must use
the instructions and tools available in your Office 2000 Resource Kit or at
http://www.microsoft.com/Office/ORK

I then tried to uninstall Office 2000 - and it would not let me, giving me
the same error. I then installed Office 2003 and that runs fine but in some
programs the Office 2000 error listed above shows up again.

I searched and found the Microsoft article Q283675 which tells how to
appropriately install Office 2000 on a Terminal Server 2003 but when I follow
the instructions, I still get the error listed above.

so now I can't install or uninstall Office 2000 and I regularly get the
above error message in some programs.

I have found the following articles to completely uninstall Office 2000 with
some research but they seem rather drastic (involving changing the registry
keys, etc) and I am worried about walking down that path.

http://www.thenakedpc.com/articles/v05/05/0505-04.html

and this microsoft link
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q219423/

Does anybody have any ideas?

 

[FRUSTRATED TO THE BITTER END!!!]

have you tried to do a system restore? or when you put the office 2000 cd in,
does it give you the option to repair or reinstall?

Hope that helped.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Additionally, is your Office version from a Volume or Enterprise license? Retail and OEM licenses cannot be installed in terminal services.

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After furious head scratching, FRUSTRATED TO THE BITTER END!!! asked:

| have you tried to do a system restore? or when you put the office
| 2000 cd in, does it give you the option to repair or reinstall?
|
| Hope that helped.
|
| "Jamie Loehr" wrote:
|
|| I tried to install Office 2000 on my new Windows 2003 Server and the
|| server let me install it - but when I tried to use Office 2000, I
|| immediately got the error:
||
|| Some default settings in Microsoft Office 2000 setup do not work
|| properly on a Windows Terminal Server. To install Office on Terminal
|| Server you must use the instructions and tools available in your
|| Office 2000 Resource Kit or at http://www.microsoft.com/Office/ORK
||
|| I then tried to uninstall Office 2000 - and it would not let me,
|| giving me the same error. I then installed Office 2003 and that
|| runs fine but in some programs the Office 2000 error listed above
|| shows up again.
||
|| I searched and found the Microsoft article Q283675 which tells how
|| to appropriately install Office 2000 on a Terminal Server 2003 but
|| when I follow the instructions, I still get the error listed above.
||
|| so now I can't install or uninstall Office 2000 and I regularly get
|| the above error message in some programs.
||
|| I have found the following articles to completely uninstall Office
|| 2000 with some research but they seem rather drastic (involving
|| changing the registry keys, etc) and I am worried about walking down
|| that path.
||
|| http://www.thenakedpc.com/articles/v05/05/0505-04.html
||
|| and this microsoft link
|| http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q219423/
||
|| Does anybody have any ideas?