Using Word on Multiple computers on a local network

[jburger]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

Hi,
I'm using an Enterprise license version of Office 2008 on 34 computers in a lab setting on our school network. I installed Office onto each harddrive as admin, went through the set up assistant, and opened Word to load the fonts. Now, when a user logs in, opens Word, he/she is asked to fill out the office assistant again to create an identity, BUT if the user goes to another computer, their identity does not seem to be following them, so Word crashes. The only fix is to dump user prefs and the MUD folder, but I'd hate for them to have to do that every time they log onto another computer on campus to use Office!. I didn't have this problem with 2004. Any answers out there? We're runing Tiger on our clients and server. I don't see any any special prefs to set in WorkGroup Manage to make this workable????

Jackie

 

[szobabicikli]

Hi jbuger!

Yep again Microsoft office!
We have a similar environment except that we use Leopard server and clients.
Students have a mandatory profile in active directory.
We had a similar issue where students actually could not run the assistant but it turned out because in workgroup manager we have not enabled it.
After enabling, it worked and made changes to the users Library folder which is stored on their home drive.
So basically the users will have to run (also can skip) the setup assistant once.
Now it works and don't need to run the setup assistant unless we delete the Library folder.
I think you should check the user's home folder. They might not have the correct security rights applied.
Could you check if the font list in word appears in the WYSIWYG format please? The reason I am asking is because are users don't get the WYSIWYG. For some reason the Fontacache file does not build for them properly, in fact it does not work for any windows user with neither roaming nor mandatory profile.

Thanks