Office 2007

Office 2010 arrives: time to upgrade…maybe

Later today MS will officially launch Office 2010. So should you upgrade? As our reviewer Tim Andserson, points out, the biggest barrier to upgrading is the existing 2007...

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Office 2007 Deployment: One Year On (Improvements on the deployment process)

Hello again dear CW Blog readers, it's been almost a year since the initial series of posts describing a automated method of deploying Office 2007 via your KIX-Based logon scripts, complete with additional items of interest surrounding the customisation of the Office Ribbon itself to allow you...

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Office 2007 Deployment: Results

Now there has been some time between the script being created and tested, let's go through some of the results we had from the testing and what kind of issues did occur as a result of installing Office in this fashion.

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Office 2007 Deployment: The Main Script Part 5

And now we reach the point where we install those Ribbon customisations. Now last time, I left Part 4 of the Main Script entry with the question of what could make the install...

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Office 2007 Deployment: The Main Script Part 4

And so now we come to what some people would describe as the interesting part of our rollout; the customised Office Ribbon we created which links to help files stored. Now the best part of all this is that we have to ensure that .net frameworks 3.5 SP1 is installed on the users workstations...

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Office 2007 Deployment: The Main Script Part 3

And so after leaving Visual Studio behind for the moment we return to the code within the KIX logon script for the office deployment, now this entry is fairly simple as it just involves adding extra parts to Office, the "Save as XPS or PDF" addin and the Office 2003 Web components which were...

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Office 2007 Deployment: Let’s Get Visual (Visual Studio 2008 Overview)

Monday was exciting wasn't it? Snow everywhere and a fair number of people forced to enjoy themselves in the event transport links ground to a halt. But that excitement doesn't come close to what we are going to look at in this post; Visual Studio 2008

Now the one question you will have...

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Office 2007 Deployment: The Main Script Part 2

As mentioned last time, we are continuing with the content of the KIX script used to deploy out Office 2007: ? "***** Run Office Install if allowed here ******" ;This part will begin the office install if the above officeinstall variable is set to one If...

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