Software Deployment

Hey everyone,

I have a project to upgrade our Office 2003 software to the 2007 version for our Windows XP systems. We would be using SCCM 2007 to do this remotely. This is not the first time for installing an Office 2007 product on the PCs, however. We are running an Office 2003/2007 mixed environment because we are using Outlook 2007. Now the time has come to upgrade the remaining Office 2003 products (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word) to their 2007 versions. We are using the Office 2007 Professional Plus edition.

Following the advice of a TechNet article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178993(office.12).aspx), we installed Office 2007 Outlook by creating an MSP file (OFF2K7OutlookOnly.MSP) via setup /admin. The file settings are as follows:

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Setup
1) Install location and organization name:
a) (no changes)
b) Entered our organization name

2) Additional network sources
a) (left blank)

3) Licensing and user interface
a) Entered our VLK
b) Checked EULA box
c) Set display level to "None"
d) Checked "Suppress modal"

4) Remove Previous Installations
a) Selected the 2nd radio button, and set the "Remove" column for each entry to "Remove none" for all apps except Outlook 2007

Features
2) Set Feature Installation States
a) In this tree, defined all as "Not Available" + "Locked" + "Hidden" except Outlook, Shared Features, and Office Tools
b) Set Outlook to "Run all from my computer"
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I saved the MSP file in the same directory as setup.exe (i.e., I didn't place it in the Updates folder)

Then I deployed it to PCs via SCCM using the following command line: setup.exe /adminfile OFF2K7OutlookOnly.MSP

Outlook 2007 installed without any problems and it runs well alongside the other Office 2003 products.

Now onto the "Upgrade." Following the advice of the same TechNet article, I modified the OFF2K7OutlookOnly.MSP and saved it under a new file name, OFF2K7Upgrade.MSP. The file settings are as follows:

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Setup
1) Install location and organization name:
a) (no changes)
b) Entered our organization name

2) Additional network sources
a) (left blank)

3) Licensing and user interface
a) Entered our VLK
b) Checked EULA box
c) Set display level to "None"
d) Checked "Suppress modal"

4) Remove Previous Installations
a) Selected the 2nd radio button, and set the "Remove" column for each entry to "Remove all" for all apps except Outlook 2007

Features
2) Set Feature Installation States
a) In this tree, defined all as "Run all from my computer", and then
b) Set for Access, Publisher, InfoPath to "Not Available" + "Locked" + "Hidden"
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I tested the MSP file by locally applying it to a test PC (just copying it to the desktop and double-clicking). Following lots of installer screen activity, the 2007 versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word were installed (Outlook 2007 was also there). However, the 2003 versions of these applications, as well as InfoPath 2003 were not uninstalled or removed--their shortcuts were still in the same Start Menu folder as the 2007 products, and they lauched! Why is this so?

Further, when I access the Office 2007 Add or Remove Features in Add or Remove Programs (Control Panel), only Outlook 2007 shows up in the menu of features that can be added/removed. None of the other Office 2007 applications appear. Why is this so?

Any advice, comments, or insight would be much appreciated.

Thanks...