How to modify an Office installation

[goundhog]

I've done an admin install of Office 2003 Professional

All works fine - but now i want to make a few changes to the installation
without running the admin install again e.g I don't want the task pane to
appear when a document opens

if I log in as a user and make all these changes - is there anyway I can
save the changes from their profile to my install ?

thanks guys

 

[Tobias Nunberger]

Hi there

I've done an admin install of Office 2003 Professional

All works fine - but now i want to make a few changes to the installation
without running the admin install again

[...]

So you already installed Office and want to change it afterwards ...
Usually, you customize the package before deploying it to the workstations.
As a post-deployment method, you could use the Office Maintenance Wizard
which is part of the Office 2003 Resource Kit Tools. This nice little tools
allows you to customize the whole suite and to deploy the settings to the
field.

if I log in as a user and make all these changes - is there anyway I can
save the changes from their profile to my install ?

The Office Profile Settings Wizard would to the job. This tool is also part
of the Office Resource Kit Tools package and can be preconfigured in an INI
file. Then you run the Wizard and create the OPS file. To deploy these
settings to the workstations, you may use a simple logon script which runs
the Wizard from the command line to import the OPS file once and creates a
REG key that you read to make sure the script runs only once on every
machine.


Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...10-a6e5-4334-8925-3bcf308cfbaf&displaylang=en


Cheers,
Toby