undo a Office 2003 with SP3 deployment.

[Edwin]

I am in the deployment process of deploying MS-Office 2003 Pro Volume
License with Service Pack 3 slipstreamed. I have done this more than once
for Office and Office 2000. I am deploying for machines with the use of
Group Policy and a customized .mst file made with Custom Installation
Wizard.

The installation goes well but when i want to remove Office 2003 from a
couple of machines (for various reasons) the package will be removed (when i
reboot my machine) and all the advertising information like shortcuts ect.
will disappear BUT all SP3 files remaing on my harddisk. Is ther someone
with the same problem and does somebody has an anwser for me about how i can
fix this? and please without the use of the MS Cleanup Wizard...

Thanks in advance,

Edwin

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Edwin,

Are you referring to the .MSP files staying in the Windows Installer cache folder, or another location?

Uninstalling removes the basic program and access to it but it also doesn't remove any user touchable content and .MSP files are
generally still there to be reapplied when reinstalling.

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I am in the deployment process of deploying MS-Office 2003 Pro Volume
License with Service Pack 3 slipstreamed. I have done this more than once
for Office and Office 2000. I am deploying for machines with the use of
Group Policy and a customized .mst file made with Custom Installation
Wizard.

The installation goes well but when i want to remove Office 2003 from a
couple of machines (for various reasons) the package will be removed (when i reboot my machine) and all the advertising information
like shortcuts ect.
will disappear BUT all SP3 files remaing on my harddisk. Is ther someone
with the same problem and does somebody has an anwser for me about how i can
fix this? and please without the use of the MS Cleanup Wizard...

Thanks in advance,

Edwin >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Edwin]

Thanks for your reply. It is a very strange problem but i think it is by
design. The files that remain on my machine are all the files of Service
Pack 3. Office 2003 is uninstalled but all the newer (SP3) files like
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.exe and XLCALL32.DLL ect,
ect. remain on the drive.

To test this problem i have build a new lab (windows 2003 standard server
and a windows xp client) and deployed office 2003 with sp3 slipstreamed.
Same result. It drives me nuts... I also installed Office 2003 from the cd
and removed it and that went ok (everything is removed). But if i install
Office 2003 from the cd and than manually install Service Pack 3 and than do
a uninstall all the SP3 files remain on the drive.

The installer information on the drive and the user information is not the
problem this information may resist on the drive but it are the program
files that bug me...