Ms office should also be in a client/server environment

[Nitesh Pathak]

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.

 

[Tom Winter]

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"

 

[Nitesh Kumar Pathak]

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.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Tml0ZXNoIFBhdGhhaw==?=,

Are you familiar with the Office Resource Kit (ORK)? You can use System Policies
and batch files to change most of what you list, to run automatically when the
user boots.

Other than that, Office will run from Terminal Server.

the more appropriate place for you to carry on this discussion would be the
office.setup newsgroup. This group is for questions concerning programming
Office applications.

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.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Tom Winter]

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.)