How to upgrade Office 2003 Std to Pro
So apparently if you use the ORK to make transforms for 2003 Std. and 2003 Pro, and then you install 2003 Std. and then "upgrade" it to 2003 Pro, it does NOT remove the Office 2003 std from the add/remove programs.
So the questions are:
1) Why? (is this "normal" Office 2003 behavior to not "upgrade" and remove the old stuff from add/remove programs?)
2) How would I go about doing a "last" action in the transform to run this:
MsiExec.Exe /x {90120409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9} /qn
I know I can put that into the "upgrade" section, but I want to remove it AFTER it's install (or SHOULD I put it in the "beginning")?
So the questions are:
1) Why? (is this "normal" Office 2003 behavior to not "upgrade" and remove the old stuff from add/remove programs?)
2) How would I go about doing a "last" action in the transform to run this:
MsiExec.Exe /x {90120409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9} /qn
I know I can put that into the "upgrade" section, but I want to remove it AFTER it's install (or SHOULD I put it in the "beginning")?
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Posted by:
jmcfadyen
16 years ago
as part of the ORK configuration it asks you if you want to remove previous versions.
I would say go back to your ORK transform and check that you set it to remove previous versions.
I would say go back to your ORK transform and check that you set it to remove previous versions.
Posted by:
kjhurni
16 years ago
It's setup for "Default" behavior which is to remove previous versions.
However, if you read the help it says that "previous" versions is Office 95 through Office XP.
It does NOT remove Office 2003 Standard, as apparently that's not a previous version.
So I guess this is working as designed.
However, if you read the help it says that "previous" versions is Office 95 through Office XP.
It does NOT remove Office 2003 Standard, as apparently that's not a previous version.
So I guess this is working as designed.
Posted by:
aogilmor
16 years ago
Actually I think it is working as designed.
Office Pro is just Office Standard + MS Access IIRC and the ORK default is not to remove all previous versions.
you should be able to do something likethis, msiexec /i pro11.msi TRANSFORMS=yourtransform.mst ADDLOCAL=Access
Office Pro is just Office Standard + MS Access IIRC and the ORK default is not to remove all previous versions.
you should be able to do something likethis, msiexec /i pro11.msi TRANSFORMS=yourtransform.mst ADDLOCAL=Access
Posted by:
kjhurni
16 years ago
Thanks.
It seems that's what the install actually does, but I'm more concerned with the add/remove programs showing that you have both items still installed. (it really throws off the software licensing and reporting counts for our inventory).
Ironiclally you can remove the "standard" from add/remove programs and it takes all of 5 seconds to run and remove the entry and everything else seems to work fine.
Just a pain in the butt to have to manually run that as I can't seem to put in the "msiexec /x blah /qn" line anywhere in the Pro install to have it automatically do that unless I run setup.exe which I don't want to do.
It seems that's what the install actually does, but I'm more concerned with the add/remove programs showing that you have both items still installed. (it really throws off the software licensing and reporting counts for our inventory).
Ironiclally you can remove the "standard" from add/remove programs and it takes all of 5 seconds to run and remove the entry and everything else seems to work fine.
Just a pain in the butt to have to manually run that as I can't seem to put in the "msiexec /x blah /qn" line anywhere in the Pro install to have it automatically do that unless I run setup.exe which I don't want to do.
Posted by:
jmcfadyen
16 years ago
you should be able to tweak the upgrade table to remove it completely first.
I would expect all that ORK is doing is modifying the upgrade table contents anyway.
I would expect all that ORK is doing is modifying the upgrade table contents anyway.
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