Using Templates or profiles for "all users" on Imaged machine

[CCI Helpdesk]

Folks,

We have Office 2K3 STD installed on our ghosted images XP Professional......

Problem is - everytime a user logs in - we have to setup the user profile
for all the office applications -

Short of blowing away the image - can we enter a registry statement or add
an ini file to have it setup the Office profile for anybody that logs in.
Something that will setup the "autorecovery" "fast saves"......"spell check"
- this will save time on deployment.

Please advise.

Thank you.

CCI Helpdesk

 

[Keith V. Klenke]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...20-EDC2-479B-B115-5ABB70B3F490&displaylang=en
should do what you require.

You could also setup those same options if you were to create an AIP & run
it through the CIW.

 

[CCI Helpdesk]

Thanks Keith - any instructions for using this?
The file do have text in them.....

This is an uncharted ocean for me..... used to doing it manually.

Thanks.

CCI Helpdesk

 

[Keith V. Klenke]

Youll love the automated/automatic/scripted/etc world.
Get yourself a copy of the office 2003 resource kit (the ORK is a free
download), read up on how to make an AIP (for office xp for example you can
look at this guide, for 2003 its pretty much the same procedure, using 2003
patches of course - http://www.kernelklenke.net/office/oxpss.html). Then run
the custom install wizard (CIW) from the ORK against your AIP. You can then
pre-setup all the configuration changes you want within that wizard. You can
then take the .adm files from the link I previously gave you, load them up
into AD & set the options there as well to make sure everyone has those same
options set.

 

[CCI Helpdesk]

Thanks Keith - looks like I have some reading and testing to do =).

CCI Helpdesk.

 

[CCI Helpdesk]

Keith,

I got the templates - is there somewhere you can place the Office 2003 UI
options.xls file to have that be the default settings on new installs of
office?

Please advise.

Thanks.

Helpdesk

 

[Keith V. Klenke]

Usually I set those options through the CIW (Custom Installation Wizard).
Page 10 of 24 gives you the option to set nearly anything you can from
within the program itself. That way anyone and everyone who opens up, say
excel on that machine, starts with the base settings. This is great for
stand alone machines or machines you dont have a GPO setup for yet. If this
is for currently installed office2003 installs I would then recommend going
the AD/.ADM route as that is the easiest way to setup default settings for
network connected machines.