Jaunty: WINE Error - Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 does not start

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Installed Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 in WINE, setting the WINE configuration for the installer to a simulated Windows XP environment. The installer went throught the installation routine for MS Word, MS Excel and MS Outlook (though a little too fast for my taste) with no problem.

When I click Anwendungen -> Sonstige -> Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, I get an error message ("Microsoft Office Outlook kann nicht gestartet werden").

Since Evolution's way of dealing with an MS Exchange server is far from being ready for productive use and MS Internet Explorer (which would enable you to use OWA Premium) is not available for Linux, this is quite dramatic for me (means that I cannot do my company work and I will have to switch back to MS Windows).

One thing that might be interesting in context with this bug report: Even though I clicked "MS Word", "MS Outlook" and "MS Excel" for installation (in the installer), Ubuntu actually only provides a program launcher icon for "MS Office Outlook", but PLUS icons for "Microsoft Clip Organizer", "Microsoft Office 2003 Assistent zum Speichern eigener Einstellungen", "Microsoft Office Anwendungswiederherstellung", "Microsoft Office Document Imaging" and "Microsoft Office Picture Manager", all of which I never chose for installation.

[Peter Simons (ubu-codeworks)]

I can confirm this.
Installed Office 2003 on Jaunty and starting Outlook causes the error message "Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook".
Other MS Office programs run fine.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

The latest Wine betas appear to start Outlook 2003 now, however it may have other problems. There are some older test results here: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2526

Wine 1.2 (which would include these, and more, fixes) may work it's way into Karmic if it's released on time, however it's too early to tell at this point.

[oss_test_launchpad (oss-test-launchpad)]

Scott, I don't quite understand what you mean:

1 - As I read on http://www.winehq.org/, currently Wine 1.1.25 is still in development, so why do you think that a 1.2 version could ever make it into Karmic?

2 - Is there any way of individually fixing this now?

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Try installing the wine1.2 package on Karmic (currently it has 1.1.25, however it will have 1.2 when it's released).

[AlwaysLearning (always-learning)]

You can install ies4linux to at least get Outlook 2003 to start and be able to click around in it, but you won't be able to create any e-mail accounts or do anything even remotely useful... trying to go to "Tools / E-mail accounts" so you can at least create an account, for example, gives the error:

The operation failed due to a registry or installation problem. Restart Outlook and try again. If the problem persists, please reinstall.
[OK]

If you can't manage accounts you can't send or receive e-mails with it. FAIL.

[balak (balak)]

I am seeing the same issue mentioned in the previous comment. Outlook 2003 starts but cannot create any new email account. Jaunty 64bit, wine 1.1.28.

People have reported success in running outlook 2003 using crossover 8.0. Will that code get back into the wine repository ? I am willing to test this out if needed.