Upgrade MS Office Group Policy Software Published to Computer Assigned

[Chris Donnell]

I am currently in the process of upgrading from Office XP to Office
2003 over our network and I am looking for a solution to a problem
I've run in to. I currently have Office XP configured to distribute
through a group policy that is in software settings as a published
app. I want to upgrade to Office 2003 but switch the group policy to
a computer policy and assigned app. I have tried several different
solutions like doing an upgrade on the current policy but it will not
allow me to select a package from a machine assigned policy, only a
software assigned or published policy.

If anyone has any other ideas on how I might accomplish this it would
be greatly appreciated.

CD

 

[Brian Desmond [MVP]]

Chris-

I'm not quite following what it's not allowing you to do - on the upgrades
tab, can you not select the GPO & package with XP in it?

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[Chris Donnell]

When I go to the upgrades tab I can select the GPO that contains
Office 2003 but the package does not show up in the packages to
upgrade field. If I assign the Office 2003 GPO to the software
section of the GPO rather than the computer section it works fine.
Unfortunately we are trying to have the new version automatically
install.

Thanks for the response.

CD

 

[Brian Desmond [MVP]]

Chris-

You should be selecting the Office XP GPO, not the one which you've created
for Office 2003.

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[Chris Donnell]

I am using the upgrade from within the Office XP GPO. I have tried
creating a seperate GPO for Office 2003 and linking it through the
upgrade tab on the Office XP GPO. I have also tried creating a new
package for Office 2003 inside the Office XP GPO. The issue is that I
cannot see a the package if it is in the computer configuration
section of the GPO. I can see it if I place the package in the user
configuration section. I'm beginning to think that I might not be
able to do this because of a limitation on group policies. If I could
find another way to have Office 2003 automatically installed after
Office XP is unistalled I would be happy.

Thanks again for your assistance.

CD

 

[Brian Desmond [MVP]]

Chris,

Is XP assinged per user, and 2003 per machine? That sounds like the issue -
you can't cross here.

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