Hi Eric,
You may want to look through the information in
the Desktop Deployment Accelerator
http://microsoft.com/technet/desktopdeployment/
The Microsoft Office 2003 Resource Kit discusses both
deployment methods (
http://microsoft.com/office/ork/2003 )
but for additional feedback on using SMS you may want to
post in the SMS newsgroups (link below to one)
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We are debating whether to use Active Directory or SMS to deploy Office 2003.
The problem we had while deploying Office XP, was that every configuration
was different and now we have a hard time when we go to patch Office XP. We
want to deploy Office 2003 correctly so we don't run into this problem again.
We are looking for whitepapers or technet articles that might help us to
avoid this pitfalls in our environment.
Thanks,
Eric Sabo>>
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LLet us know if this has helped you,
Bob Buckland ?

MS Office System Products MVP
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A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.sms.installer
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.sms.installer
B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com