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Office 2003 Deployment: Step 2

Identify the upgrade issues.

Knowledge of the differences that may exist between the current version(s) of Office that may already be deployed in your environment is crucial to the successful deployment of Office 2003. Clearly identifying issues that may arise because of application and file format changes will help assure that the deployment goes smoothly. Included in this step is collecting an accurate inventory of the Office programs currently in use as well as Office solutions such as Access databases.

The Solution Accelerator for BDD gives you the tools and methods for successfully testing and resolving any upgrade of migration compatibility issues. It provides detailed steps for understanding issues and shows you how to develop processes for resolving them.

Standard Edition

Provides guidance and job aids for performing software inventory and identifying the existing versions of Office manually or by using non-Microsoft software.

Identifying the Upgrade Issues

Testing Applications

Access 2003 Conversion Toolkit

Enterprise Edition

Provides guidance and job aids for performing software inventory and identifying the existing versions of Office by using SMS 2003.

“Identifying the Upgrade Issues” in the Office Upgrade Feature Team Guide, Enterprise Edition

“Testing Applications” in the Supplemental Applications Feature Team Guide, Enterprise Edition

Access 2003 Conversion Toolkit

“Additional Development” in the Office Upgrade Feature Team Guide, Enterprise Edition

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Additional Resources

•	Security and Office 2003 To help address growing concern about the security of information and systems, several new features were included in Office 2003 for administrators and users.

•	Microsoft Office 2000 to Microsoft Office 2003 Migration Issues This document discusses the possible problem areas administrators might encounter when moving from Office 2000 to Office 2003.

•	Microsoft Office XP to Microsoft Office 2003 Migration Issues This document discusses the possible problem areas administrators might encounter when moving from Office XP to Office 2003.

•	Microsoft Office 97 to Microsoft Office 2003 Migration Issues This document discusses the possible problem areas administrators might encounter when moving from Office 97 to Office 2003.

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