2003/2007 on same PC: Conflicts?

L

LarryP

Our company will be upgrading from 2003 to 2007 in the fall. We have a dozen
or so databases in wide use, some in 2000 format/some in 2003 format.
Reading other posts it appears there is pretty good backward/forward
compatibility, but we'd really like to test that before D-Day. Has anyone
tried to install 2007 beside 2003 instead of upgrading? If so, any conflicts
encountered? I recall trying to do that with 97 and 2003 and running into
some odd stuff.
 
A

Arvin Meyer [MVP]

They will work side-by-side but there are some issues. One of the issues is
that it can take several minutes to switch between applications. Also, in
Vista, you'll need administrative rights to make the registry changes. I
would suggest running the 2007 version in a Virtual PC image for the
smoothest operation. Also make sure that you install the SP1 Service Pack if
you plan on not using VirtualPC.
 
J

Jerry Whittle

On my home machine I have 97, 2003, and 2007 all running together. The
biggest problem isn't Access; rather, it's Outlook. 2007 only allow one
version of Outlook on the computer and will uninstall the older versions if
you choose to continue with the install.
 
L

LarryP

Well, we haven't moved ?up? to Vista yet, so that problem set doesn't apply.
And we do have individual administrator rights on our desktop PCs. But if
running them in parallel involves dinking around in the Registry, I'm
thinking maybe schmoozing IT into giving us a temporary PC just for testing
might be a less painful way to go.
 
A

Arvin Meyer [MVP]

You'll not need to worry about the registry permissions if you're not using
Vista. You do not make registry changes, the Office applications register
themselves as you run them. That's why the time problem. Office 2007 is far
more registry intensive than earlier versions.

If you can wrangle another PC to test with, it is always the best course,
since you'll never have a conflict.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
http://www.accessmvp.com
 

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