Problems Deploying MS Office

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Hi,

I have recently set up a network of about 30 machines and I want to deploy
Office XP to all of the machines on the network. I have created an
administration install of Office XP and saved it to a path similar to
"\\servername\software\officexp\setup.msi" but when I try to configure
installation of this package to client computers using group policy, the
clients are not picking up the request. I can only think that I need to run
a start up script on the client machines so that they can talk back to the
server and request an installation of this package? Is this correct? If so,
then how would I write the script, or is there already scripts out there?

I have experimented installing MSoffice by assigning it to PC's when users
log-on, but this makes the logging on time alot longer as everytime a user
logs onto a box, it installs this package.

Any ideas will be helpful.........i hope.

Thanks
Matt
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