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Microsoft Office 2000 to Microsoft Office 2003 Migration Issues

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As you know, I call a legacy system "One that works". That said, I am certainly not against upgrading or even tabula rasa software development either. In fact, making incremental and somewhat  more dramatic improvements to a legacy system is often the best course to follow.

Office 2003 is simply the most exciting release we have done since Office 97. But, what are the migration issues, especially from Office 2000 (a huge install base)? What features were deprecated? What is new or enhanced? I want an EXHAUSTIVE LIST, not just some quick marketing blurbs.

So, we have such a document: Microsoft Office 2000 to Microsoft Office 2003 Migration Issues, while too densely written in my opinion (I would re-engineer this document in a very different way), at least has all of the key data points (it's 80+ pages). It has tables and tables of feature lists, what's in, what's out, what's new, what's ehanced. It also has a comprehensive list of KBs you will want to have handy. It's a doc worth keeping close at hand.

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2005
    The intended audience of the migration issue whitepaper series is administrators or support personnel responsible for Office 2003 deployment planning. Several enterprise customers had contacted Microsoft requesting that we detail what was known about significant changes to existing features, features that were removed, and product issues documented in KBs. The information will help central IT admins be aware of potential compatibility issues before end users or branch office IT staff encounter them, and help them to resolve them more quickly. The idea is to reduce the impact of known compatibility issues thus increasing migration satisfaction.

    There are actually 3 papers:
    Office 97 to Office 2003 Migration
    Office 2000 to Microsoft Office 2003 Migration Issues
    Office XP to Microsoft Office 2003 Migration Issues
    and all three can be downloaded from:
    http://www.microsoft.com/office/orkarchive/2003ddl.htm

    We felt the info was most important, but sure they could be prettier ;)
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    June 15, 2009
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