Will Access 2002/2000 or Visio 2002/2000 work with MS Office 2003

[BillRyanBP]

We are about to deploy several thousand desktops with Windows XP Professional and Office 2003 Standard Edition. Hundreds of our users are licensed for Visio 2000 or 2002 and Access 2000 or 2002.

Will these programs run ok with Office 2003 SE?
If so, are there any special installation steps (e.g., install Access 200x first)?

Thanks for any help.
Bill Ryan, BP

 

[DL]

Install earliest version first, then update, before installing later
versions

We are about to deploy several thousand desktops with Windows XP

Professional and Office 2003 Standard Edition. Hundreds of our users are
licensed for Visio 2000 or 2002 and Access 2000 or 2002.

 

[DL]

This is an MS reccomendation
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;218861
Whilst the above link refers to Office, in its entirety, the same caveats
apply I believe to installing multiple versions of the individual Office
App.
From Office2K the default install folder is into a version specific folder.
ie Office9, Office10 etc
I believe yr users may have problems if they try and install an earlier
version of an App for which the later version is preinstalled.
There is of course an implication for any shortcuts when multiple versions
are installed, as well as the opening of a file from explorer etc ie 'open
with'?
A couple more links that may be helpfull
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;241141&Product=acc2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292491&Product=acc2002
My specific experience is with Access97 and Access2K together.
DL

Thanks for the quick reply. Can you briefly explain why we would have to

install the older version apps first? We are deploying Office 2003 as part
of the base build of our new corporate desktop environment, and users will
likely install their own apps after we've deployed. I may have to modify
the deployment process if the older Visio/Access/Project apps have to be
installed first.