OCT - Configure shortcuts

[Garth]

When we rolled out Office 2003 using a transform file created with the Custom
Installation Wizard we were able to add shortcuts for users to the Quick
Launch toolbar, so all users have a Word and Excel shortcut there as well as
the one that gets put there on the first run of Outlook without being asked
on the first time run.

We are setting up the rollout of Office 2007 and have used OCT to configure
to our liking. The "Setup" and "Features" sections work very nicely. We had
a lot of trouble with the "Outlook" section and in the end went with the
default settings for Outlook as it definitely doesn't work as it's meant to.
The "Configure shortcuts" under "Additional content" doesn't work properly.
You can add shortcuts for Excel and Word like this
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 - [AppDataFolder]\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Quick Launch - Yes

but they don't install for the user, it quite happily takes out the ones
that were there before but doesn't put in new ones.

Any ideas on how we fix this issue? The users will not be happy to loose
their shortcuts!

Cheers, Garth

 

[eshwar]

Hi Garth,
I have come accross your article today.
I have a solution for this issue. I'm currently working on configuring
Office Pro Plus 2007 so that we can install it via Altiris.

By dafault Office 2007 is machine mode installation (ALLUSERS=1) so user
settings like "[AppDataFolder]\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch -
Yes" doesn't effect the installation.
I've written a vbscript to copy the shortcut files to
"[AppDataFolder]\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch" for every logged
on user as a post install.

That means after the installation of Office 2007 application this vbscript
will be executed (post install) to copy the shortcut files to the user
profiles.
If you really need the script, i can help you.

Regards,
Eshwar