Chapter 5. Office Migration

Migration planning is the least understood and often the most complex part of deploying Microsoft Office 2003. This chapter describes the issues, technologies, and techniques for migrating from earlier versions of Office, particularly Microsoft Office 97 and earlier. It also includes scripts that you can use to discover your migration issues.

In this chapter:

Migration Issues

Versions Compatibility

Network Inventory

Document Conversion

Database Conversion

Security Migration

Solution Migration

Phased Rollouts

Best Practices

Checklist

  • Do you know which versions of Office users are running? See Chapter 1, for help inventorying your environment. Also see the section "Network Inventory," later in this chapter.

  • Do you know which groups ...

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