Upgrading Office 2003 Standard from Office XP Pro

[Shootist321]

Ok I need some help here.

I need to upgrade a bunch of users, probably through GPO's to Office
2003 Standard, from Office XP Professional. So far my tests are almost

flawless. Everything seems to work fine, except for one thing. The
Office 2003 installation does not uninstall Microsoft Access, since the

Office 2003 Standard version does not have Access, therefore it will
not look to "remove a previous version".


Has anyone seen any resolutions to this problem?


Even a way to uninstall Access XP through GPO's is good enough.


Thanks!

 

[Shootist321]

b-b-b-b-b-b-bump

 

[Bob I]

This is a newsgroup, bump has no meaning, if someone reads your original
message and knows the answer they will likely reply to it.

 

[Shootist321]

Yes I know it's a newsgroup.

Yes I know bumping won't take it to the top of the list as it would do
on a forum.

Bumping does give it a reply though, which may spark someone, like you,
the urge to see what the reply was.

Hilarious.

Anyway an update to this. You can uninstall via a command line using
msiexec, see below.

msiexec /x <path>\pro.msi /qn
msiexec = Windows Installer
/x = Uninstall
pro.msi is the office xp professional msi file
/qn = Quiet (in the background) with no user interaction

These files are on the network, but the msiexec cannot use UNC paths I
don't think, so u have to map a drive.

I've created a batch file that I haven't fully tested yet, which maps
the drive, runs the uninstall, then disconnects the drive. I have a
feeling it will disconnect the drive before the uninstall is done.

Still would like to know how to best pull this uninstall off from the
server via GPO's.

 

[Bob I]

FWIW the drive mapping should disappear on restart as long as you don't
make it persistent.

 

[Shootist321]

New problem. Batch file, after changing mapped drive to /persistent:NO
and deleting the /d line, worked fine on my pc. Then took it to a PC
with OfficeXP SP3 installed, uninstall didn't do squat. Sat there for
a while, looked like it was uninstalling, yet all office progs are
still there and work fine....

Any ideas?

 

[Bob I]

A consideration, whose permissions does the batfile use to get to the
server?

 

[Shootist321]

Good question, but I'm using my domain login which has full rights to
the files I'm trying to access.

BUT, that got me thinkin. And on this system I'm using, my domain
account was never setup with LOCAL admin rights to that machine. I
logged in as the local admin, setup my domain account in the local
admin group, re-ran the batch file, BINGO.

So now I know my batch file will work. (changing to server thinking)
I don't think there is a way to run a 1 time logon script for users.
(correct me if that's wrong).

So I'll write one with an if statement, that checks for a .txt file on
the system root. If the txt file is not there, run this batch file I
created, with an echo statement to the .txt file referenced in the if
statement. This way, next time the user logs on, the if statement will
see the txt file, and not run the batch file.

Thoughts?

 

[Bob I]

I don't do logon scripts so maybe someone else has that answer. But the
txt file should work no matter if two users logged onto the same PC.