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Disable Office User Interface Elements

by Aaron Parker on August 12, 2008

in Deployment

Group Policy allows you to disable certain UI elements within Office applications, which you might want to do in the case of the Information Rights Management feature built into Office 2003 and 2007.
I’m picking on IRM in this post about disabling UI elements, but you can disable all of the IRM features in Office by [...]

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If you’re deploying Office 2007 and haven’t yet standardised on the new file formats, you’re probably already aware of how to set the default file formats via Group Policy, or using the Office Customization Tool to set the defaults before installing Office.
There’s another avenue to creating new Office documents that I hadn’t thought about until [...]

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Installing Office 2007 on Terminal Server

by Aaron Parker on May 6, 2007

in Deployment

When install Office 2007 on your Terminal Servers there are a few things you’ll need to be aware of. The first of which is that you will need an Enterprise or Volume License key, i.e. those keys that use Volume Activation 1.0 and do not require activation. There is also some configuration and installation options [...]

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In a previous post I discussed what you need to do to start deploying Office 2007. In that post I referenced a page that Microsoft linked to, but have not actually posted (Use Group Policy to Assign Startup Scripts for 2007 Office Deployment). So in this article I’ll go through a couple of ways you [...]

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Office 2007 Deployment via Group Policy

by Aaron Parker on April 12, 2007

in Group Policy

If you are looking at deploying Office 2007 via Group Policy you may have noticed that Microsoft have changed the game. Office 2007 is no longer deployed using transform files; it now uses Windows Installer patches (.MSP) or CONFIG.XML to customise the Office installation.
When you deploy any of the Office 2007 applications, you can add [...]

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