Corporate Upgrade to Office 2007 SP2

Currently: Office 2003 SP3 applications on XP 2002 SP2
Upgrade to Office 2007 SP2 suite
We are planning a corporate upgrade from 2003 apps to 2007 suite for
100,000+ users globally.
My question is what are the known issues with this upgrade, whether they are
server issues, application issues, functionality issues, etc.
I have cross-posted this to the usual applications as well as
windows.upgrade and office.misc so I can capture all users of these
applications as well as the network people.
I am aware of the usual new 2007 user interface issues but are there any
problems we can head off at the development stage?
I have reviewed the MS website but am after other issues that MS may or may
not know about, or wish to keep quiet about ;-)
Many thanks in advance
DeanH

Office 2007 SP2 created quite a number of problems - one of which was that
it corrupts document variables.

However a hotfix has been released that fixes it and a number of the other
things that were broken by SP2.

That hotfix and more information can be obtained from:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...rss&spid=11377


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"DeanH" <> wrote in message
news:A9692C7F-92F5-4D7E-8230-...
> Currently: Office 2003 SP3 applications on XP 2002 SP2
> Upgrade to Office 2007 SP2 suite
> We are planning a corporate upgrade from 2003 apps to 2007 suite for
> 100,000+ users globally.
> My question is what are the known issues with this upgrade, whether they
> are
> server issues, application issues, functionality issues, etc.
> I have cross-posted this to the usual applications as well as
> windows.upgrade and office.misc so I can capture all users of these
> applications as well as the network people.
> I am aware of the usual new 2007 user interface issues but are there any
> problems we can head off at the development stage?
> I have reviewed the MS website but am after other issues that MS may or
> may
> not know about, or wish to keep quiet about ;-)
> Many thanks in advance
> DeanH

Many thanks Peter, do you know if there is a list anywhere of these problem
languages?
Ciao
DeanH

"Peter" wrote:

> Hi Dean.
>
> If you plan to upgrade to local languages, please observe, that some
> problems are not fixed (yet) in some minor countryversions like
> Danish.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
>

Passworded documents may cause issues.

Plan for at least 1 days training for every user. Expect productivity to
fall like house prices and recover slower than the British economy.

My Advice: wait for Office 2010. Then roll out Off2010 and Win7 together.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"DeanH" <> wrote in message
news:A9692C7F-92F5-4D7E-8230-...
> Currently: Office 2003 SP3 applications on XP 2002 SP2
> Upgrade to Office 2007 SP2 suite
> We are planning a corporate upgrade from 2003 apps to 2007 suite for
> 100,000+ users globally.
> My question is what are the known issues with this upgrade, whether they
> are
> server issues, application issues, functionality issues, etc.
> I have cross-posted this to the usual applications as well as
> windows.upgrade and office.misc so I can capture all users of these
> applications as well as the network people.
> I am aware of the usual new 2007 user interface issues but are there any
> problems we can head off at the development stage?
> I have reviewed the MS website but am after other issues that MS may or
> may
> not know about, or wish to keep quiet about ;-)
> Many thanks in advance
> DeanH

Terry: many thanks for the response, spot on as usual.
I have been playing with Word 2007 at home and your productivity note is
well founded :-)
I have mentioned to the Development Team that we should wait for 2010 as
many issues (hopefully) will be resolved. Hence this exercise, to gather all
that can cause problems with 2007 and as the rollout will probably be next
year anyway, why not go start to 2010? Here's hoping.
All the best.
DeanH


"Terry Farrell" wrote:

> Passworded documents may cause issues.
>
> Plan for at least 1 days training for every user. Expect productivity to
> fall like house prices and recover slower than the British economy.
>
> My Advice: wait for Office 2010. Then roll out Off2010 and Win7 together.
>
> --
> Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
>
> "DeanH" <> wrote in message
> news:A9692C7F-92F5-4D7E-8230-...
> > Currently: Office 2003 SP3 applications on XP 2002 SP2
> > Upgrade to Office 2007 SP2 suite
> > We are planning a corporate upgrade from 2003 apps to 2007 suite for
> > 100,000+ users globally.
> > My question is what are the known issues with this upgrade, whether they
> > are
> > server issues, application issues, functionality issues, etc.
> > I have cross-posted this to the usual applications as well as
> > windows.upgrade and office.misc so I can capture all users of these
> > applications as well as the network people.
> > I am aware of the usual new 2007 user interface issues but are there any
> > problems we can head off at the development stage?
> > I have reviewed the MS website but am after other issues that MS may or
> > may
> > not know about, or wish to keep quiet about ;-)
> > Many thanks in advance
> > DeanH
>

I'm guessing this is not a question of if you should upgrade but what are the
potential problems? As for 2010 and Win7 - of course they may be better,
most companies of this size (100000) generally wait to see how the new
product fares before committing, which would mean now will become 2013 and by
then 2014 will be in the works so...

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Cheers,
Shane Devenshire


"Terry Farrell" wrote:

> Passworded documents may cause issues.
>
> Plan for at least 1 days training for every user. Expect productivity to
> fall like house prices and recover slower than the British economy.
>
> My Advice: wait for Office 2010. Then roll out Off2010 and Win7 together.
>
> --
> Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
>
> "DeanH" <> wrote in message
> news:A9692C7F-92F5-4D7E-8230-...
> > Currently: Office 2003 SP3 applications on XP 2002 SP2
> > Upgrade to Office 2007 SP2 suite
> > We are planning a corporate upgrade from 2003 apps to 2007 suite for
> > 100,000+ users globally.
> > My question is what are the known issues with this upgrade, whether they
> > are
> > server issues, application issues, functionality issues, etc.
> > I have cross-posted this to the usual applications as well as
> > windows.upgrade and office.misc so I can capture all users of these
> > applications as well as the network people.
> > I am aware of the usual new 2007 user interface issues but are there any
> > problems we can head off at the development stage?
> > I have reviewed the MS website but am after other issues that MS may or
> > may
> > not know about, or wish to keep quiet about ;-)
> > Many thanks in advance
> > DeanH
>

Shane: thanks for the comment, and yes the gogs do turn slowly. But the
"powers that be" have deemed it necessary, so we shall see. Yes the exercise
is to collate the pit-falls of 2007 and how to negate them quickly at the
start (hopefully).
What I do know is that Vista is not on the cards, hooray! ;-) and probably
we will go to 2007 just as 2010 comes out, just like when we when to 2003
when 2007 came out!
Thanks again, all the best.
DeanH

"Shane Devenshire" wrote:

> I'm guessing this is not a question of if you should upgrade but what are the
> potential problems? As for 2010 and Win7 - of course they may be better,
> most companies of this size (100000) generally wait to see how the new
> product fares before committing, which would mean now will become 2013 and by
> then 2014 will be in the works so...
>
> --
> If this helps, please click the Yes button.
>
> Cheers,
> Shane Devenshire
>
>
> "Terry Farrell" wrote:
>
> > Passworded documents may cause issues.
> >
> > Plan for at least 1 days training for every user. Expect productivity to
> > fall like house prices and recover slower than the British economy.
> >
> > My Advice: wait for Office 2010. Then roll out Off2010 and Win7 together.
> >
> > --
> > Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
> >
> > "DeanH" <> wrote in message
> > news:A9692C7F-92F5-4D7E-8230-...
> > > Currently: Office 2003 SP3 applications on XP 2002 SP2
> > > Upgrade to Office 2007 SP2 suite
> > > We are planning a corporate upgrade from 2003 apps to 2007 suite for
> > > 100,000+ users globally.
> > > My question is what are the known issues with this upgrade, whether they
> > > are
> > > server issues, application issues, functionality issues, etc.
> > > I have cross-posted this to the usual applications as well as
> > > windows.upgrade and office.misc so I can capture all users of these
> > > applications as well as the network people.
> > > I am aware of the usual new 2007 user interface issues but are there any
> > > problems we can head off at the development stage?
> > > I have reviewed the MS website but am after other issues that MS may or
> > > may
> > > not know about, or wish to keep quiet about ;-)
> > > Many thanks in advance
> > > DeanH
> >

Some issues on the user side...
http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/arch...#comment-33529
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Jim Cone
Portland, Oregon USA


"DeanH"
<>
wrote in message
Currently: Office 2003 SP3 applications on XP 2002 SP2
Upgrade to Office 2007 SP2 suite
We are planning a corporate upgrade from 2003 apps to 2007 suite for
100,000+ users globally.
My question is what are the known issues with this upgrade, whether they are
server issues, application issues, functionality issues, etc.
I have cross-posted this to the usual applications as well as
windows.upgrade and office.misc so I can capture all users of these
applications as well as the network people.
I am aware of the usual new 2007 user interface issues but are there any
problems we can head off at the development stage?
I have reviewed the MS website but am after other issues that MS may or may
not know about, or wish to keep quiet about ;-)
Many thanks in advance
DeanH

Word 2010 is Word 2007 SP3 in disguise.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Shane Devenshire" <> wrote in
message news:AF501903-276C-4C02-BD9D-...
> I'm guessing this is not a question of if you should upgrade but what are
> the
> potential problems? As for 2010 and Win7 - of course they may be better,
> most companies of this size (100000) generally wait to see how the new
> product fares before committing, which would mean now will become 2013 and
> by
> then 2014 will be in the works so...
>
> --
> If this helps, please click the Yes button.
>
> Cheers,
> Shane Devenshire
>
>
> "Terry Farrell" wrote:
>
>> Passworded documents may cause issues.
>>
>> Plan for at least 1 days training for every user. Expect productivity to
>> fall like house prices and recover slower than the British economy.
>>
>> My Advice: wait for Office 2010. Then roll out Off2010 and Win7 together.
>>
>> --
>> Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
>>
>> "DeanH" <> wrote in message
>> news:A9692C7F-92F5-4D7E-8230-...
>> > Currently: Office 2003 SP3 applications on XP 2002 SP2
>> > Upgrade to Office 2007 SP2 suite
>> > We are planning a corporate upgrade from 2003 apps to 2007 suite for
>> > 100,000+ users globally.
>> > My question is what are the known issues with this upgrade, whether
>> > they
>> > are
>> > server issues, application issues, functionality issues, etc.
>> > I have cross-posted this to the usual applications as well as
>> > windows.upgrade and office.misc so I can capture all users of these
>> > applications as well as the network people.
>> > I am aware of the usual new 2007 user interface issues but are there
>> > any
>> > problems we can head off at the development stage?
>> > I have reviewed the MS website but am after other issues that MS may or
>> > may
>> > not know about, or wish to keep quiet about ;-)
>> > Many thanks in advance
>> > DeanH
>>

Jim: many thanks for the link, some very good comments there.
Thanks for the response.
All the best
DeanH

"Jim Cone" wrote:

> Some issues on the user side...
> http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/arch...#comment-33529
> --
> Jim Cone
> Portland, Oregon USA
>
>
> "DeanH"
> <>
> wrote in message
> Currently: Office 2003 SP3 applications on XP 2002 SP2
> Upgrade to Office 2007 SP2 suite
> We are planning a corporate upgrade from 2003 apps to 2007 suite for
> 100,000+ users globally.
> My question is what are the known issues with this upgrade, whether they are
> server issues, application issues, functionality issues, etc.
> I have cross-posted this to the usual applications as well as
> windows.upgrade and office.misc so I can capture all users of these
> applications as well as the network people.
> I am aware of the usual new 2007 user interface issues but are there any
> problems we can head off at the development stage?
> I have reviewed the MS website but am after other issues that MS may or may
> not know about, or wish to keep quiet about ;-)
> Many thanks in advance
> DeanH
>