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Dwayne Hing
Aug 24, 2016Copper Contributor
Access 2010 and Access 2016 coexisting
Hi there Access Network! I have a client that is wanting to know if they can keep Access 2010 installed on their current machines and to install Office Pro Plus (to include Access 2016). Access 2010...
Antony Taylor
Sep 13, 2016Iron Contributor
Hi there Dwayne,
As far as I know newer and older versions of office can run side by side but only if the newer version is running in the "Click2Run" format and the older version is an MSI installation. Which I think everything should be because I don't think they introduced Click2Run until 2013. As with using SCCM to uninstall the rest of 2010 I'm not sure exactly how well that will work or even if that's a necessary step.
If you're going to deploy all this via group policy then I'd just suggest creating a Test OU to apply the Policies too and run some small 1-2 user testing.
As far as I know newer and older versions of office can run side by side but only if the newer version is running in the "Click2Run" format and the older version is an MSI installation. Which I think everything should be because I don't think they introduced Click2Run until 2013. As with using SCCM to uninstall the rest of 2010 I'm not sure exactly how well that will work or even if that's a necessary step.
If you're going to deploy all this via group policy then I'd just suggest creating a Test OU to apply the Policies too and run some small 1-2 user testing.