Gproup olicy installs of Office 2007

[Martin]

'Is there anyway to do an install of O2007 that has the effect of a GPO
assign? In other words I wish to deploy on a user rather than PC basis and I
have GPO available but not any of the up market deployment tools? I
understand that GPO deployment of Office is possible (though not
recommended) but that it only works on a per machine basis and the per user
assign/publish options don't work with O 2007 programs.

 

[Eric A.]

No.

Office 2007 cannot be installed per user.

 

[Martin]

Thanks

No.

Office 2007 cannot be installed per user.

 

[Ratzaz]

i am admin for our department which is in an ou with around 100 machines. we
have been using office 2003 and want to upgrade everything but access at the
time being to 2007. we have the version with enterprise version, and im
currently pushing (via gpo)out or trying to, just the main progs, no groove,
no onenote, no publisher, and no access. Then i push out 2003 access
only(via gpo my problem is that im not finding consistancy, and programs
from 2007 are being installed i thought i had told not available, hidden and
locked (the
four above). in trying to get the sequence correct, ive installed and
uninstalled (by
turning off those gpo's and doing a gpupldate /force on the target machines,
rebooting then turning gpo's back on) doesnt seem to make any desireable
changes.
any guru's have an answer?

 

[Eric Ashton]

Hello Ratzaz,

I'm assuming that you are pushing 2007 with GPO. And I am assuming that you
are configuring the features as hidden/not avail/locked in the config.xml.
Since customizations from the .msp will not take when pushed through GPO
software installation.


I would recommend that you not push 2007 using software installation in gpo,
and instead push 2007 using a startup script in GPO. There are many
advantages. The biggest advantage being that you can use .msp files for your
customizations.

Details on pushing 2007 using a startup script in gpo can be found here.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179134.aspx