RE: Office and AD

Hi Lucia,

Office wants to install some files in the current profile and setup the
user's settings the first time they use any Office product by default. So
with your current setup, this will happen every time a user uses Office on a
machine they have not used before.

There are a couple of ways around this. Probably the most straightforward is
by installing the Office Resource Kit
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX011511491033.aspx for Office 2000) and
using the utilities included to create an .mst file.

This is a sort of "answer" file that, when used in conjunction with the
normal .msi installers, can change the default settings for Office. In the
2003 environment, and I believe in 2000 as well, one of these settings is to
avoid that initial installation of the user's profile.

As for the update server issue, were you able to connect to the web page to
administer the tool prior to pushing the updates, or was this done
completely on the server end?

Hope this helps,

Curtis Salinas
Windows Systems Administrator
Infrastructure Services - IS&T
University of California, Berkeley
csalinas@berkeley.edu
(510) 643-9662
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> list@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of lucia greco
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:09 PM
> To: micronet-list@listlink.berkeley.edu
> Subject: [Micronet] Office and AD
>
> Hello everyone
> as we near the end of our AD forest upgrade a couple of puzzling things
> are
> occurring. I'm sure once one of use and the answer it'll seem easier than
> it
> should be. The first thing that we've noticed is that every time a student
> logs into a computer for the first time office insists on installing and
> asking for initials. This potentially means that a student will have to
> logon and run the installer as many times as they sit down at a new
> machine
> in my lab. What am I missing. We are running Office 2000 on XP Pro
>
> Secondly we just set up our server to push out the windows updates to all
> the clients. We've just finished synchronizing the machines and were told
> it
> was successful. We are now not able to use the Web tool to administrate
> this
> process. We keep getting the message can't load page when we try and go to
> the URL.
>
> This is been a long month trying to get this active directory installed in
> short of purchasing problems and a few mistakes with passwords this looks
> really good. Now to stay sane until the end is all that's needed Lucy
>
>
> Lucia Greco
> University of California Berkeley
> Assistive Technology Specialist
> (510) 643-7591
>
>
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