Installing Office 2003

Most of the information that this chapter contains applies to installing Office 2003 Editions on users’ computers. Office 2003 Editions is more complex to deploy than your typical utility or program, however, so this section contains additional information about installing it.

In Windows XP Professional, different groups of users have different levels of rights and permissions. In these environments, default users have limited access to system areas of the computer. Because Office 2003 Setup writes to system areas of the operating system and the registry, a user must have administrator rights to the local computer to install Office 2003 Editions. Users without administrator rights cannot install Office 2003 Editions. To install ...

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