Office 2003 SP3 is here!

The Microsoft Office product teams are proud to announce the release of Office 2003 Service Pack 3. While we know that many of you are enjoying the great functionality of Office 2007, we also know that there are many more of you who still continue to rely on Office 2003.

Office 2003 SP3 is focused on improved security across the entire suite of applications, fulfillment of top customer requests, and improved compatibility with Windows Vista. We recommend that all of Office 2003 users install the service pack.

It’s even in the news! :)

Information Week
PC World
eWeek

In addition to continued media coverage, Microsoft will be conducting a webcast on 9/26 with more information.

SP3 updates for all Office 2003 products are available through Microsoft Update, Office Update, and the Download Center.

Thanks!

Michael Affronti
Outlook Program Manager

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  • Help please SP3 is installed and since then I have not been able to use the scanner function on my Brother MFC-5440CN Printer/Scanner/Copier. I have a remote office and MUST scan everthing and send as an email. Need help fast since my boss is less than pleased with this interuption of service

  • Yikes thought I was glad to get the SP3 update until i found out that i can not use the scanner function on my all in one Brother. Used to be able to scan directly into Outlook, now it comes up with the command line is not valid error. More than 60 percent of what I send is scanned and sent via Outlook This has created a huge problem for me in the last two weeks Any help in correcting this issue??

  • I fixed my SP3 problem by uninstalling Office, and reinstalling. This is the ONLY way I found to remove SP3. I reinstalled SP2, and disabled Microsoft Update (I switched back to Windows update). I guess I'll have to start looking at Open Office next!

  • The Outlook with SP3 error breaking faxmaker appears to be that in implementing SP3, microsoft removed the /c cmdline switch from outlook. Faxmaker, and I would guess the scanner referenced above used this switch instead of /a to open outlook with an attachment. I have the same issue on all of my XP machines. I will be refferring it to our Microsoft Rep today.

  • i have same problem with brother scanner to outlook now that SP3 has been updated how can i fix please?

  • I cannot open .msg files anymore. What is going on?

  • After installing Office SP3, I can no longer retrieve any emails, either from accounts with my ISP, or remote ones. Internet works just fine, and Outlook worked fine before the SP3 upgrade. I'm on MS Office SE 2003 (11.8169.8172) SP3. Error is 0x80042108. Running Test Account Settings says it cannot lot into the incoming mail server (POP3). Any thoughts on what to try to get this working again, short of a System Restore to a point before the SP3 install? Thanks!

  • After I installed SP3, my Brother MFC5440 Printer/scanner/copier can not open Outlook to scan to email. "The command line argument is not valid".

    What does Brother say about the problem?

  • Humm... what do SP3 on our program...

    -disabled association with Microsoft Document Imaging file (.mdi)

    - unable to scan any document in Office Suite with some scanner (Brother mfc9180 - Oce KM1650 with scan module)

    The program seem to scan normaly but at the end, no image inserted....

    with another program (Paperport, Omnipage pro) the scan is correct. Is Microsoft Office not using Twain correctly since SP3 ?

  • After installing Office 2003 SP3 I am unable to use the scan to functions from my Brother scanner which used to open Outlook automatically. The error that is now received is.... " The command line argument is not valid. Verify the switch you are using. " How do we correct this? We are using a Brother MFC-8460N and have downloaded all the recent updates for the drivers & software per the Brother website.

  • I installed SP3 and now my computer thinks office is no longer installed. I want to re-install office, but foolishly I did not print the registration key out, and it is locked in my archives of outlook...

  • Hi

    Since the Office 2003 automatic update to sp3 I am contunually getting a promt to Enter Network Password on one of my two POP e-mail accounts in Outlook. Gmail works fine but my work e-mail pops up the promt to type in my user name and password -- with the "Save this password in your password list" option unchecked. I check it and hit OK but it pops right up again...

  • When you try sending attachments in word and excel you recieve : Word Couldn't send mail because of Mapi Failure This would be nice to have in uninstall feature included with these Service Packs. We are now have a number of computers with this problem after the SP3 upgrade.

  • I also have a problem with Outlook command lines since 2003. We use shortcuts to open the different folders. Prior to SP3, command lines like the following worked OK: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" /folder outlook:calendar /recycle This now gives the "The command line argument is not valid. Verify the switch you are using" error. I've added the /select switch as follows: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" /folder /select outlook:calendar /recycle ...but still get the same error. I've found I can use /folder and /recycle on their own, or /select on its own, but not all three together. This is no good for me. I want shortcuts to open the existing outlook instance to a specific folder. How can I now achieve this? yours frustratedly,

    Simon

  • For all of you having problems with Brother MFC/DCP machines not being able to scan to email, there is an update to ControlCenter called "ControlCenter2 Update Tool" on Brother website. Go to downloads for your model and it will be listed under utilities. It has worked for me.

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