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Upgrade from Office 2000 to 2003

I have a potential client who wants to upgrade their sales force laptops (48 units) from Office 2000 to Office 2003.  Any of you ever do this sort of thing?  

Anything to watch out for?  

Approximately how long am I looking at per PC on average?
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I'd do it through group policy - the upgrade would take probably 5 minutes per machine, plus time to enter the key, if necessary.

Biggest problem I recall is Access databases - they may need to be converted and those in 2003 format will not be readable in 2000.
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Can't do in GP - I wish that I could.  No AD environment.
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It helps but should I watch out for anything outlook related?  pst/ost/pab/etc????
No with the email personal & arcive files, etc. -- it was transparant.
Seemed to pickup the previous locations, etc.

If not, you only need to point to the files to pull them in -- the format is mostly the same.
<It helps but should I watch out for anything outlook related?  pst/ost/pab/etc????>

Upgrading FAQs:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/faq.mspx

how to upgrade form earlier versions - Microsoft Outlook 2003:
http://www.softwaretrainingtutorials.com/ms-outlook-2003.php

Ten reasons office 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/topten.mspx