Office 2003 Professional

Any way i can copy the 5 cds for Office 2003 Pro and create a shared folder
on my LAN so users have access to all products in the suite without having to
swap out CD's?

If so, what would the structure be?? As simple as CD1, CD2, CD3, CD4 and CD5
folders?

There are a couple of ways to do the copy, but you'll
still need a license for each user.

If you have a volume license key (MS volume licenses
require only 5 MS software licenses - not all of them
need to be for Office http://microsoft.com/licensing)
you can use that key to create an Office Admin point
from your CDs and do a custom deployment or use it
as a source for user setup
http://microsoft.com/office/ork/2003

If you have a retail copy of MS Office 2003 then
you can copy each CD to a folder and you can usually
run setup from the CD image as you could from a CD.
It has to be installed you can't run it from the CD.

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"Number51" wrote in message ...
Any way i can copy the 5 cds for Office 2003 Pro and create a shared folder
on my LAN so users have access to all products in the suite without having to
swap out CD's?

If so, what would the structure be?? As simple as CD1, CD2, CD3, CD4 and CD5
folders?
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx

Alright, so dump all 5 cd's into one folder and share it, simple as that!!

thanks bob! i'll give it a go and let you know how it works out.


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

There are a couple of ways to do the copy, but you'll
still need a license for each user.

If you have a volume license key (MS volume licenses
require only 5 MS software licenses - not all of them
need to be for Office http://microsoft.com/licensing)
you can use that key to create an Office Admin point
from your CDs and do a custom deployment or use it
as a source for user setup
http://microsoft.com/office/ork/2003

If you have a retail copy of MS Office 2003 then
you can copy each CD to a folder and you can usually
run setup from the CD image as you could from a CD.
It has to be installed you can't run it from the CD.

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"Number51" wrote in message ...
Any way i can copy the 5 cds for Office 2003 Pro and create a shared folder
on my LAN so users have access to all products in the suite without having to
swap out CD's?

If so, what would the structure be?? As simple as CD1, CD2, CD3, CD4 and CD5
folders?
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx

Each CD would need to be in its own folder or subfolder.

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"Number51" wrote in message ...
Alright, so dump all 5 cd's into one folder and share it, simple as that!!
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx