Installing Frontpage 2003 With Office 2003 (Teacher / Student)

[Guest]

I have recently purchased a new Dell PC (Windows XP Operating System) and I
am in the process of loading my "old" software onto the new PC. My problem
occurs when I attempt to load Frontpage 2003 (I have Office 2003 loaded and
working) onto my PC with Office 2003 (Teacher / Student). I get a Error
1608: Setup Could Not Locate A Previous Version Of Office. My old computer
has both of these programs (Frontpage 2003 and Office 2003) loaded and
operating fine. What am I doing wrong.....will Frontpage 2003 not use Office
2003 as valid copy for compliance? Do I need a older copy of Office (97,
2000, or XP) or a older copy of Frontpage? Help......

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

FrontPage 2003 does not use Office 2003 as a qualifying program.
If you are using an *upgrade* version of FP 2003, you must have a previous
version of FP available to use as a qualifying product.
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Tom "Pepper" Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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About FrontPage 2003:
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|I have recently purchased a new Dell PC (Windows XP Operating System) and I
| am in the process of loading my "old" software onto the new PC. My
problem
| occurs when I attempt to load Frontpage 2003 (I have Office 2003 loaded
and
| working) onto my PC with Office 2003 (Teacher / Student). I get a Error
| 1608: Setup Could Not Locate A Previous Version Of Office. My old
computer
| has both of these programs (Frontpage 2003 and Office 2003) loaded and
| operating fine. What am I doing wrong.....will Frontpage 2003 not use
Office
| 2003 as valid copy for compliance? Do I need a older copy of Office (97,
| 2000, or XP) or a older copy of Frontpage? Help......

 

[Ronx]

Yes. Sounds like the FP2003 is an upgrade that requires an earlier
version of FrontPage present.
There is no need to install the earlier version - when the FP2003
install looks for the early version, replace the CD with the early one
and point the dialogue to the CD drive - then swap the discs again.

 

[Guest]

Okay, apparently FrontPage 2003 does consider Office 2003 as a valid
compliance product, because it installed successfully for this user and
myself at least one time.

What we need to know is why it doesn't always work this way? It didn't work
for me when I tried the same thing on a server with Windows Server 2003. I
was wondering if it failed because I have partitions? I have tried
installing Office 2003 on both partitions. Unfortunately, pointing FrontPage
to the CD drive where Office 2003 Professional CD was located, or pointing it
to C and D partitions, has not helped it locate the valid product.

I can see where the confusion is coming from though. The error message says
it needs Office 2000, XP, or 97 to install successfully, but experience has
shown us otherwise.

Please help! Thanks!

 

[Ronx]

Any FrontPage upgrade requires a previous version of FrontPage as a
qualifying product. No version of Office is a qualifying product,
unless it includes FrontPage.

 

[Andrew Murray]

Teacher Student editions are not upgrade qualifying products (which
according to your subject line, is what you're asking about - trying to
upgrade FP 2003 from Teacher/Student Editions of Office 2003. That's their
one limitation besides the cheaper price.

All Microsoft upgrade products list exactly what is a qualifying upgrade
product on the packaging.

Note the following
1) Teacher Student editions of any MS software can't be upgraded to a
higher/newer version.

2) You need a previous version of the product you're upgrading i.e. if you
want to upgrade to FP2003 then you need a previous verison of Frontpage.

3) Office doesn't generally include Frontpage (which is why your upgrade
won't work - it can't find Frontpage) Certainly the main releases of MS
Office don't include Frontpage i.e. Small Business Edition, or Professional
or Standard editions do not. I think there's an "extreme" or "premium"
edition (or there was) of Office which does include Frontage.

 

[Guest]

Okay, thank you both. Of course, that makes sense (althought this isn't a
teacher's edition, in my case). What is weird is how it worked on my laptop
with O2K3, though not on my server, so I assumed it was a qualifying product
to upgrade from. I thought the partitions were messing it up on the server,
but pointing to each partition and the O2K3 CD wasn't helping, so that is
that!