User Templates default location, permission error

[js]

I install Office X in /Applications locally on all clients. The users
move between machines. They should only have read access to
applications.
When they quit, Office cant "save..." something in the application
folder. I solve it with a chmod -R 777 on whole MS office folder.

I guess template place could be changed, and should be within the user
home instead. But I cant preset it on all accounts. Can it be set once
and for all?

Joachim

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

The best place to put the Normal Template is within the user's Microsoft
User Data folder. That should fix it.

A new default installation of Microsoft Office will do this automatically.
Each user requires read/write exclusive access to their own Normal template,
it's one of Word's per-user scratch files.

Hope this helps

I install Office X in /Applications locally on all clients. The users
move between machines. They should only have read access to
applications.
When they quit, Office cant "save..." something in the application
folder. I solve it with a chmod -R 777 on whole MS office folder.

I guess template place could be changed, and should be within the user
home instead. But I cant preset it on all accounts. Can it be set once
and for all?

Joachim

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Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

 

[js]

Thx, but No...
Ive made installations. On the clients logged in as local admin,
otherwise I cant install in /Applications.
Still all users template wants to be in Office App folder.

Were is the little pointer that tells tha app to use the /~... place
for template?
*sigh*

/J

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

I'm not sure I understand your question.

If you install Office on a machine that has no previous installation of
Office, it will by default put the Microsoft Templates in the Applications
folder, and the user's Normal template will be created in the user's MUD at
the time of first-run of Word.

If there is an existing previous installation of Office on the machine, the
installation will use the current location and preserve the existing Normal
template.

I would strongly advise against allowing that to happen. They are trying to
preserve the user's Normal template, which may have been extensively
customised and be very valuable. In most cases, the user has never
knowingly customised their Normal template, but Word has, and the content of
the Normal template may be very non-standard indeed. It may for that reason
be counterproductive to allow that to continue.

If *I* were a knowledgeable System Administrator, I would force Office to
install the user's Normal in the user's MUD folder. It's by far the best
solution and will reduce the number of support calls you get

To force it after installation, go to Word and change Preferences>File
Locations>User Templates to the MUD location. Restart Word. If you want to
keep the user's Normal, then quit Word and move the existing Normal into the
MUD, overwriting the one you will find in there.

No user must ever be able to get a different user's Normal template into
edit mode, or trouble will break out all over your installation. Whoever
logs out last at night gets to define the toolbars, styles and macros for
the entire office next day!!

Users whose Normal template is read-only will crash just after lunch every
day, losing their documents and your patience...

Hope this helps

Thx, but No...
Ive made installations. On the clients logged in as local admin,
otherwise I cant install in /Applications.
Still all users template wants to be in Office App folder.

Were is the little pointer that tells tha app to use the /~... place
for template?
*sigh*

/J

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Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

 

[js]

I read and understand that this is a bigger problem then I thought.

The accounts are on the network, and when installing, Im on a local
admin account.

The installer has no knowledge of other accounts.

How can I change
"Preferences>File Locations>User Templates to the MUD location."

If I change when on a netaccount, it only changes that users account
If Im on a local account, the net accounts arent there.
What should I write?
/~*/Library.. or what?