Office 2007 Installation Point

[Tony]

Hi All,

Can anyone point me to a good book that covers how to create an
administrative installation point for deploying Office 2007? Just finished
one for Office 2003 using the Office 2003 Resource Kit from Microsoft, but
found out after purchasing the book that it's nothing more than a
regurgitation of what's on the Office Resource Kit web site. I'd like to
get my hands on something that addresses installation point
setup/configuration more explicitly, if possible.

Thanks

 

[pldpld shalom]

Hy tony
I dont think you need a book for this.
You'v got the all information on MS web sites.
I think it will be waste of moeny to buy a book
Regards
PLD

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Tony,

For Office 2007, the "Office Admin Installation Point" (oAIP) has been
replaced with the "Office Network Installation Point (oNIP)". To create an
oNIP you copy one or more Office 2007 Product CDs to the location of
choice. Unlike the prior editions you can combine products into a single
location and you no longer need to run Setup to create the point from the
CD.

The Office 2007 Resource Kit (http://microsoft.com/office/ork) includes
downloadable 'books' for different aspects of the customization process.
There was a significant amount of content that came out from Microsoft after
the initial product release that is on the Technet site that link takes you
to. I haven't checked the books available recently to see if they've
included the later data examples with exercises/tips.

Office 2007 also replaced the Custom Installation and Maintenance Wizard
utilities from prior versions with a built in Office Customization Tool
(OCT) and uses MS Installer patch files (MSP) in place of the previous
versions Transform (MST) and Maintenance (CMW) customization files.

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Hi All,

Can anyone point me to a good book that covers how to create an
administrative installation point for deploying Office 2007? Just finished
one for Office 2003 using the Office 2003 Resource Kit from Microsoft, but
found out after purchasing the book that it's nothing more than a
regurgitation of what's on the Office Resource Kit web site. I'd like to
get my hands on something that addresses installation point
setup/configuration more explicitly, if possible.

Thanks >>

 

[Tony]

Thanks for the reply. I think I agree with your assessment; everything I
need to know I can probably find on MS's web site.

 

[Tony]

Bob,

Thanks for the reply. Looks like the ORK site is probably the way to go, as
opposed to purchasing a book that may quickly become dated. I've not looked
at the site yet, but hope there is more content that addresses how to create
an admin install, step by step. OL2000 & 2003 ORK sites (and books) seem to
jump around quite a bit within the process. Hopefully this one will go
smoother for me.

Thanks again for the feedback.

Tony

 

[TXGuy]

Hopefully these will help:

Deploying the 2007 Office system
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303395.aspx

Downloadable book: Deployment for the 2007 Office release
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179207.aspx