Deploying Office 07 with Group Policy

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I am preparing to roll out Office 2007 Pro+ to our organisation. We
currently have Office 2000 Pro installed on all computers as well as Outlook
2003 deployed as a group policy computer assigned package - but that gp
removed. Our users are not local administrators of their computers.

I have used the customisation wizard to create an MSP file which removes all
previous versions of office and does a full install. The Office resouce kit
information seems to suggest two options for deploying to users who are not
local administrators. One is to use SMS which we don't have and the other is
to use a computer logon script through group policy where it says the script
will run as local system with the required permissions.

When I tested the deployment using a computer logon script (batch file) in
gp to my own computer where I am a local admistrator, everything worked.
When I tested it on two other computers where I was not a local
administrator, setup ran and seemed to be working but when it had finished I
ended up with no versions of office working. The files for both old and new
versions were on the computer. Both versions were lised in add/remove
programs. The shortcuts on the start menu for the old version were still
there, but not for the new verison. Neither version of Office programs would
run.

I am guessing that setup only had part of the permissions required to
complete the process. Is the information in the resource kit wrong or have I
missed something?

TC


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