If you’ve got users clicking away with other Office applications, you must download separate SP1 updates for OneNote, Project, Project Server, and Visio. The single and easily located 18MB SP1 downloadable covers only the core Office 2003 programs, namely Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and their shared programs. Anything that cuts down on security-related mayhem without causing software incompatibilities is a very good thing.Ī word to the wise, however: SP1 isn’t one, it’s actually five. From the lazy IT administrator’s perspective, we like Office 2003 SP1 both for its swanky name as well as its roll-up security features plugging up yet another round of holes in Excel, Word, and Outlook.
Unfortunately, when installed, there wasn’t a lot of difference from the user’s perspective.
You don’t even have to have the original Office discs handy to deploy the pack, which makes us auto-deploy dogs really wag our tails. No trouble, no error messages, no floating body parts in crimson-colored surf. Fortunately, the latter is not so much of a worry with the Office 2003 Service Pack 1 release.īack in production network land, we’ve installed this sucker on about 300 desktops now with about 40 very different configurations. Other times, your system eats the service pack and then, with a shark’s mindless determination, goes on to eat several other important software packages at random. Sometimes this procedure goes off without a hitch. Oh yeah, and the Jaws music is playing in the background. That installation progression bar is sliding across the screen like the slowly extending finger of destiny sealing your fate. You wiped the sweat off your brow, calmed your breathing, and - with a trembling index finger - hit the Install button. You’ve downloaded another marquee service pack from somewhere deep in Washington state.
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