Change work template location

[Jan-Peter Koopmann]

Hi,

during a customer migration I am faced with this neat problem: The customer
copied all documents from servera to serverb. In the new environment the
users do not have access to servera anymore. Now if a user opens a word
document windows tries to load the document template on
\\servera\templates\whatever instead of \\serverb\templates\whatever.

Is there a tool to change the location of the linked document template
within a word file?


Regards,
JP

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi,

during a customer migration I am faced with this neat problem: The
customer copied all documents from servera to serverb. In the new
environment the users do not have access to servera anymore. Now if a
user opens a word document windows tries to load the document
template on \\servera\templates\whatever instead of
\\serverb\templates\whatever.

Is there a tool to change the location of the linked document template
within a word file?


Regards,
JP

1. Don't use UNC paths - use drive mappings in the future, so you can change
the location of network files and not have to do anything on the clients.
2. I don't know how to change this en masse - I'm presuming you're referring
to MS Word, but I don't know what version, what OS, whether you're on a
domain, whatnot.

 

[Jan-Peter Koopmann]

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

1. Don't use UNC paths - use drive mappings in the future, so you can
change
the location of network files and not have to do anything on the clients.

Yep. I sure learned that lesson!

2. I don't know how to change this en masse - I'm presuming you're
referring
to MS Word, but I don't know what version, what OS, whether you're on a
domain, whatnot.

Sorry. Forgot:

Office 2003 / Winword / Windows 2003 Domain.

Thanks for your help!

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

1. Don't use UNC paths - use drive mappings in the future, so you can
change
the location of network files and not have to do anything on the
clients.

Yep. I sure learned that lesson!

When you set it up *this* time, make sure you use a drive letter. Some
people think they're archaic. I don't.

Sorry. Forgot:

Office 2003 / Winword / Windows 2003 Domain.

How many users? Got roaming profiles, and plenty of time?
Sorry I don't know any easy way to script this, make mass profile changes -
and I don't know that you can set this up in group policy. Might want to
post in a GP group just in case.

 

[Jan-Peter Koopmann]

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

When you set it up *this* time, make sure you use a drive letter. Some
people think they're archaic. I don't.

Already changed this. Thanks.

How many users?
100

Got roaming profiles, and plenty of time?

Yes. No.

Sorry I don't know any easy way to script this, make mass profile
changes -
and I don't know that you can set this up in group policy. Might want to
post in a GP group just in case.

It is not a profile change. I can distribute the new location without any
problems via the GP. The problem is that the location of the used template
is stored in the document itself (not Words configuration). If Word loads a
document it will always try to use the template that is referenced in the
file itself and since this is on a nonexisting server, loading the document
takes about 1 minute...

I wrote a little macro that changes the AttachedTemplate back to normal if
the user wants to thereby making followup-loads of this document fast again.
I hope this is enough for the customer....

Thanks,
JP

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

When you set it up *this* time, make sure you use a drive letter.
Some people think they're archaic. I don't.

Already changed this. Thanks.

How many users?
100

Got roaming profiles, and plenty of time?

Yes. No.

Sorry I don't know any easy way to script this, make mass profile
changes -
and I don't know that you can set this up in group policy. Might
want to post in a GP group just in case.

It is not a profile change. I can distribute the new location without
any problems via the GP. The problem is that the location of the used
template is stored in the document itself (not Words configuration).

Ahhh - I misunderstood.

If Word loads a document it will always try to use the template that
is referenced in the file itself and since this is on a nonexisting
server, loading the document takes about 1 minute...

I wrote a little macro that changes the AttachedTemplate back to
normal if the user wants to thereby making followup-loads of this
document fast again. I hope this is enough for the customer....

Me too - thanks for posting back.