[Office 2003] Migration from professional to standard
Hello!
Does anybody know to change office professional to standard keeping existing settings, like PKI oraz pst files for MS Outlook?
Well I use unattended installation of office 2003 prof, however I need to change professional into standard on existing installations. There are many settings, mostly for MS Outlook that I'd like to keep.
I haven't checked it yet - is it possible to install standard version on existing professional? It seems to be a "downgrade".
Are there any uninstallation switches making possiblility to remove application without removing settings?
Big thx for any help!
Does anybody know to change office professional to standard keeping existing settings, like PKI oraz pst files for MS Outlook?
Well I use unattended installation of office 2003 prof, however I need to change professional into standard on existing installations. There are many settings, mostly for MS Outlook that I'd like to keep.
I haven't checked it yet - is it possible to install standard version on existing professional? It seems to be a "downgrade".
Are there any uninstallation switches making possiblility to remove application without removing settings?
Big thx for any help!
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anonymous_9363
16 years ago
I don't believe you can "downgrade" Office in the way you seem to imply: if nothing else, the Product Codes are different and will have implications for updates, patches and so on. If you had the idea that these could be changed, I think they *probably* could, but you'd have a massive task on your hands, trawling through the registry, matching features to Product Code, components to features, etc and updating them accordingly. Not pretty.
I think you're going to have to do an uninstall/re-install. Any customisations ought to be retained, since they're unlikely to have been part of the original roll-out but, if you have specific requirements, you'd best build some Custom Actions to back-up what you need retained.
I think you're going to have to do an uninstall/re-install. Any customisations ought to be retained, since they're unlikely to have been part of the original roll-out but, if you have specific requirements, you'd best build some Custom Actions to back-up what you need retained.
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