Office Suite on System Management

Deploy Office 2007 SP2 with ConfigMgr 2007

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:43:16 +0300

As Microsoft recently released Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 suite, it is a good idea to add the update files to the package so it can be installed during the installation. So, first of all we have to download the SP2 executable file from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b444bf18-79ea-46c6-8a81-9db49b4ab6e5&displaylang=en (see Visio and Project information at the end…

Deploy Office 2007 with custom Quick Access Toolbar commands

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:16:00 +0300

Receiving some complaints that users can’t find the Open, New etc. commands in the new Office 2007 interface, I had a task to customize Quick Access Toolbar so that all users can have these commands installed by default. Office 2007 applications (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word) use a Quick Access Toolbar setting file (.qat). Every…

Using Group Policy to deploy Office 2007

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:15:05 +0200

Last week I tested how Office 2007 installs via Group Policy. I created a software installation package and it worked successful; except the fact that it is not fully installed when a user logs on and that it will not upgrade (or remove) the existing version of Office even if I added the Office 2003…