Deploying Outlook 2003 seperate of the Office 2003 Systems suite

[Chris Haney]

Our company is moving to Exchange 2003 and are going to implement Outlook
2003 in order to take advantage of the benefits of running them together.
However, we are not ready to make the jump (we are currently on Office 2000)
to Office 2003 because of the large number of custom VBA applications that
are in our offices that have not been tested yet. Has anybody done this
yet? If so, how did it go? Are there any known issues with doing it? What
is the general opinion on doing this?

Thanks in advance for any input you have on this subject.

Chris

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You can pretty much kiss outlook integration good-bye until you upgrade the
suite. You will lose office envelope features - Word as the email editor and
the envelope button on word and excel toolbars are the two major uses of the
office envelope. Mail merge from Outlook contacts is also broken when the
versions aren't the same.

Beyond that, as long as all clients are Ol2003, it should be fine. There are
issues with rules when users use both Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2003 to
access a mailbox - tell those users not to use rules or not to upgrade the
rules in Ol2003 as long as they still use ol2000 against the mailbox too.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


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