Re: Ms office should also be in a client/server environment

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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:55:39 -0500

You might want to look at this:

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1675795,00.asp

Supposedly there will be a server based version of Excel (that I assume you
access through a web page, like Outlook web access.)

-- 
Tom Winter
tom@nospam.amosfivesix.com
"Nitesh Kumar Pathak" <NiteshKumarPathak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
message news:8C044E9B-A069-46D8-AC71-CDE40A8CD23B@microsoft.com...
> Dear Tom,
>
> Thanx for ur review, I read the url u provided below but in the 
> deployement
> section i found that microsoft has provided many good features in 
> deployement
> through which I can reachout to my goals but again it is going to be a
> headache in the environment where all themachines are already installed 
> with
> windows client and office as many machines comes preinstalled from the 
> vendor
> itself, so thats why I want that if microsoft builds some office server 
> then
> it will be easy to deploy the custom OPS file to even a new machine which 
> is
> preinstalled with windows client and office too. Wht do u think on this
> ..Pleas elet me know..........And offcourse once again Thanx for ur 
> review.
>
> "Tom Winter" wrote:
>
>> Office has allowed this type of thing for a long time. Go here:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/office/2003/all/reskit/en-us/default.mspx
>> and check under "Deployment"
>> -- 
>> Tom Winter
>> tom@nospam.amosfivesix.com
>>
>> "Nitesh Pathak" <Nitesh Pathak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
>> message
>> news:4C98A17B-F101-4F57-863C-318C075EB852@microsoft.com...
>> >I am a network Administrator, and I found it very diffcult when I was 
>> >asked
>> > to make the default settings for all the machines in the corporate
>> > installed
>> > with ms office XP.
>> >
>> > They wanted the user should get a tahoma font by default whenever he
>> > starts
>> > ms word or excel, they want th edefault format of date should be same
>> > through
>> > out the company and that should be dd/mm/yyyy and all the files sahll 
>> > be
>> > opened from one shared location on the network and should be saved 
>> > there
>> > only
>> > and many more others.
>> >
>> > All these settings are easy to be configured when there is 10 or 20
>> > machines
>> > in teh network But wht when there are 100's of machines in teh network.
>> >
>> > So wht I thought on this is that microsoft should make a version of
>> > microsoft Office which could be managed from one central location, Some
>> > wht
>> > like a Client/server environment.
>> >
>> > The server is installed on one machine in the network and rest of the
>> > machines are installed with ms office client which are going to pick up
>> > all
>> > the default settings and configuration from the Ms office server.
>> >
>> > In this way it will be very easy to manage all the clients using the ms
>> > office client version .
>> >
>> > I hope u people like this suggestion and rate it high so that microsoft
>> > takes it in concern while developing the next Version of microsoft 
>> > Office.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> 

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