Question : Problem: Documentation on how to remove office 2003 with sms server 2003?

Anyone have any good documentation on how to uninstall office 2003 with sms server 2003?
Step by step documentation perferred.
I recently pushed out office 2007 standard and office 2007 Pro Plus with sms server 2003. I used an attended install package on all these machines, they were upgraded from office 2003 to 2007. The problem is all the machines before had office 2003 pro on them and only the mahcine that got upgraded with office 2007 standard left behind offce 2003 access and publisher on them because the new 2007 standard didn't include access or publisher, so it didn't over write them with 2007, it just left that part of 2003 on those machines. I would like to know if there is a way to use sms server 2003 to remove the old office 2003 access and publisher only from the machine that were only upgraded with office standard 2007?

Answer : Problem: Documentation on how to remove office 2003 with sms server 2003?

Hi Justin

If you look in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall and search for Office 2003, you should find a long GUID for example {90110409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9} Now if you look under the Uninstall Value you should see something similar to the following:
MsiExec.exe /I{90110409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9}

This is basically the uninstall information, so you could use SMS to run
MsiExec.exe /X{90110409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9} /QB to uninstall showing a progress bar or
MsiExec.exe /X{90110409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9} /QN to uninstall quietly
You could also add /NORESTART to ensure the system doesn't restart after Uninstallation has completed.

You could create a collection with all systems with Microsoft Office 2003 then apply the advertisement against this collection.

You could also package it using a script, to check if the registry entry exists before running, I'd use something like AutoIT www.autoitscript.com or InnoSetup http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

A simple AutoIT Script would be (See Attach Code Snippet below)

Both these packages are free to use as well.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

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#NoTrayIcon
 
$VER_MSOFFICE = RegRead('HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{90110409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9}', 'DisplayName')
If $VER_MSOFFICE = 'Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003' Then
	Run(@SystemDir & '\MsiExec.exe /X{90110409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9} /QN /NORESTART')
EndIf

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