office 2000/XP and elevated privileges

[Amadej Bukorovic]

Hello everyone,
I'm am trying to deploy Office 2000 to several computers using GPOs. I am a
bit confused as to how long Office setup requires Windows Installer to be
run with elevated privileges. As far as I understand (and please correct me
if I'm wrong), the only way to deploy Office 2000 with GPOs is to have the
"Allways install with elevated privileges" option set to Enable. That or,
give administrative rights to every user. Which of course isn't an option.
But having "Allways install with elevated privileges" set to Enable means
users can install basicly any software in MSI format. How can I get around
that? I've read about a /jm switch to use when running setup (setup.exe
/jm), to force Windows Installer to run with elevated privileges. Does that
also work for administrative installs?

Or is the only working option to wait for all my users to run Office on
their workstations for the first time, and then disable "Allways install
with elevated privileges" (which of course doesn't sound like a perfect
sollution). I don't suppose there is a way to limit which MSI files should
be installed with elevated privileges?

Regards,
Amadej.