Installing Outlook 97 On the Office Network

[Farrar]

My brother-in-law works for a law firm that desires to install Outlook 97 {the version they currently have on hand} on their network to allow their employees to send messages to one another. I have very few specifics other than the network consists of about 10 workstations running Windows 98. I do not know if they are networked peer-to-peer OR with one workstation acting as a server. Would it be easiest to install the software and setup program centrally on the server and then browse to the setup program from each workstation OR would it be just as easy to simply go to each workstation and pop in the disk?

If one unit is acting as a server, does this require a different version of Outlook to be installed on the computer acting as a server?

Thanks for the help; as I know I am being quite vague.

Jeff

[emr]

I find it easier to throw the contents of the CD on a network share and install from there.

All you will need then is the CD key for each installation or you could even do an administrative install on the server that will package your desired install configuration giving you a one-click setup of Office.

See here. (http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/9798/Netwrk8.aspx)

Best of luck.

emr

[Kineda]

You should look into exchange to manage the network email system, if there is a server more than likely you would have to be running exchange so you can create and manage the internal emails, Keep in mind the file size of pst files, you may have to do several upgrades to that server.....