Office 2003 Professional Support - On Campus Computers

Office 2003 Editions can help organizations and their employees transform information into impact. New and familiar products, features, and functionality improve how people and organizations connect to coworkers, information, and business processes.

Advances in intranet collaboration through integration with the collaboration and information-sharing portal, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, enable employees to access and share information both internally and externally. Support for information rights management (IRM) and industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) provide a platform on which to quickly build cost-effective solutions that can have an immediate impact.

Included Applications:

Learn more about Office 2003 at Microsoft [opens new window]. 

System Requirements

The following system requirements are the minimum necessary to run Microsoft Office 2003.

• Computer and processor: Personal computer with an Intel Pentium 233-MHz or faster processor (Pentium III recommended); optional installation of Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003 requires a 450-MHz or faster processor (Pentium III recommended)

• Memory: 128 MB of RAM or greater; optional installation of Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003 requires 256 MB of RAM

• Hard disk: 400 MB of available hard-disk space; optional installation files cache (recommended) requires an additional 200 MB of available hard-disk space; optional installation of Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003 requires an additional 190 MB of available hard-disk space

• Drive:CD-ROM or DVD drive

• Display: Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution monitor

• Operating system: Microsoft Windows™ 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3), Windows XP, or later

• Other: Microsoft Exchange Server is required for certain advanced functionality in Microsoft Office Outlook; Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 running Microsoft Windows SharePoint™ Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality; certain inking features require running Microsoft Office on the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition; speech recognition functionality requires a Pentium II 400-MHz or faster processor and a close-talk microphone and audio output device; Information Rights Management features require access to a Windows 2003 Server running Windows Rights Management Services; note: Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003 will be disabled in the presence of a Microsoft Exchange-technologies-based e-mail system.

   

Installation

Campus-owned Computers

If the software you download from Software Depot is in the ISO format and your CD-burning software does not support ISO images, OAT recommends downloading ISO Recorder [opens new window].

Microsoft Office 2003 is part of the CSULB Microsoft Campus Agreement Program. Activate the product using CSULB's volume license key ( serial number ) for this product during the installation process [opens new window]. The license key is displayed as part of the product details in Software Depot. Log in to Software Depot and then click on the "My Software" link in the upper left hand corner of the page. Click on the link labeled "Secure Download" for the product and activation code.

Personally-owned Computers

The University's Volume Licensing Media and keys may NOT be used for Microsoft Office 2003 installations on personally owned computers used primarily for university business. For those installations, faculty and staff must purchase a media kit from the bookstore.

Support

Please submit questions, problems or suggestions [opens new window] regarding the Microsoft Office 2003 license.