Windows Update for Office 2003

Hi,

I had a question about the Office 2003 Pro compatibilty pack for the Offie
2007 suite. There are several Office 2003 updates that are a prerequisite
before applying the update for the Office 2007 compatibility pack. Are these
updates for Office 2003 (which would bring it up to the current build of
11.8142.8132 SP2) available by any chance through automatic updates?
Currrently, the only way that I know of that you can get them is by manually
going to the site from each machine and then downloading and installing them
(after Microsoft has determined that your copy of the OS is valid)

The reason for my question is that soon, our environment will have mixed
OS's (Vista Enterprise and XP Professional SP2) with two different Office
platforms which raises the compatibility issue between the two. Imaging
would address new machines but the existing machines on the network is of
concern because some won't take an upgrade of Vista/Office 2007 or their
locations on the network, bandwidth issues/WAN connections to the hub of the
network won't allow for this application to be applied via SMS or through GP.

Turon wrote:
> I had a question about the Office 2003 Pro compatibilty pack for
> the Offie 2007 suite. There are several Office 2003 updates that
> are a prerequisite before applying the update for the Office 2007
> compatibility pack. Are these updates for Office 2003 (which would
> bring it up to the current build of
> 11.8142.8132 SP2) available by any chance through automatic updates?
> Currrently, the only way that I know of that you can get them is by
> manually going to the site from each machine and then downloading
> and installing them (after Microsoft has determined that your copy
> of the OS is valid)
>
> The reason for my question is that soon, our environment will have
> mixed OS's (Vista Enterprise and XP Professional SP2) with two
> different Office platforms which raises the compatibility issue
> between the two. Imaging would address new machines but the
> existing machines on the network is of concern because some won't
> take an upgrade of Vista/Office 2007 or their locations on the
> network, bandwidth issues/WAN connections to the hub of the network
> won't allow for this application to be applied via SMS or through
> GP.

If you have installed the latest version of Microsoft Update on the system
and/or are using WSUS in your environment - you can get updates for all
Microsoft products - not just Windows.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Thank you for your help on this.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Turon wrote:
> > I had a question about the Office 2003 Pro compatibilty pack for
> > the Offie 2007 suite. There are several Office 2003 updates that
> > are a prerequisite before applying the update for the Office 2007
> > compatibility pack. Are these updates for Office 2003 (which would
> > bring it up to the current build of
> > 11.8142.8132 SP2) available by any chance through automatic updates?
> > Currrently, the only way that I know of that you can get them is by
> > manually going to the site from each machine and then downloading
> > and installing them (after Microsoft has determined that your copy
> > of the OS is valid)
> >
> > The reason for my question is that soon, our environment will have
> > mixed OS's (Vista Enterprise and XP Professional SP2) with two
> > different Office platforms which raises the compatibility issue
> > between the two. Imaging would address new machines but the
> > existing machines on the network is of concern because some won't
> > take an upgrade of Vista/Office 2007 or their locations on the
> > network, bandwidth issues/WAN connections to the hub of the network
> > won't allow for this application to be applied via SMS or through
> > GP.
>
> If you have installed the latest version of Microsoft Update on the system
> and/or are using WSUS in your environment - you can get updates for all
> Microsoft products - not just Windows.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>