Office Customization Tool for Office 2007

[AdrianChia]

Hi,

I’m using the Office Customization Tool to standardize the office 2007
installation for my company. But i found that some of the settings that i
have configured in the Setup customization file was not applied during the
installation. I thought mine testing platform was having problem, so i
reinstall the OS and updated the machine with all the latest security dates,
service pack and hotfixes before trying out the office 2007 installation
again. But as before, it has failed.

I had this same problem when i used the OCW for office 2003 to standardize
the installation. But during that time i had the support from Microsoft
support and found out that there was a bug in the OCW for office 2003. And
after i applied the fix from Microsoft support it resolves the OCW for office
2003 issued.

System specs:
1.6Ghz
1gb ram
27gb free space
Windows xp pro with service pack 2

Anyone have this problem? Any fix?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Adrian,

What are the settings that are not being applied?

Are you upgrading over an old version of Office or ????

What are the steps you're using to do the customization and then run setup for the client PC?

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Hi,

I'm using the Office Customization Tool to standardize the office 2007
installation for my company. But i found that some of the settings that i
have configured in the Setup customization file was not applied during the
installation. I thought mine testing platform was having problem, so i
reinstall the OS and updated the machine with all the latest security dates,
service pack and hotfixes before trying out the office 2007 installation
again. But as before, it has failed.

I had this same problem when i used the OCW for office 2003 to standardize
the installation. But during that time i had the support from Microsoft
support and found out that there was a bug in the OCW for office 2003. And
after i applied the fix from Microsoft support it resolves the OCW for office
2003 issued.

System specs:
1.6Ghz
1gb ram
27gb free space
Windows xp pro with service pack 2

Anyone have this problem? Any fix?>>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Adrian,

What are the settings that are not being applied?

Are you upgrading over an old version of Office or ????

What are the steps you're using to do the customization and then run setup for the client PC?

=================
Hi,

I'm using the Office Customization Tool to standardize the office 2007
installation for my company. But i found that some of the settings that i
have configured in the Setup customization file was not applied during the
installation. I thought mine testing platform was having problem, so i
reinstall the OS and updated the machine with all the latest security dates,
service pack and hotfixes before trying out the office 2007 installation
again. But as before, it has failed.

I had this same problem when i used the OCW for office 2003 to standardize
the installation. But during that time i had the support from Microsoft
support and found out that there was a bug in the OCW for office 2003. And
after i applied the fix from Microsoft support it resolves the OCW for office
2003 issued.

System specs:
1.6Ghz
1gb ram
27gb free space
Windows xp pro with service pack 2

Anyone have this problem? Any fix?>>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Derek Schauland]

I am trying to give the customization tool a go. I have Office Ultimate
and Pro Plus (both from technet)

Neither one of them seem to allow me to use the customization tool... I
get an error that states "Files necessary to run the Office
Customization tool were not found. Run Setup from the installation
point of a qualifying product"

I have a network install point for both pro and ultimate, have tried the
UNC path and a drive mapped to the location. Same error on both.

I read that Office 2007 Enterprise is needed for this to work, but would
imagine that Ultimate has all the same bells and whistles as
Enterprise... anyone have a clue what I might be missing?

thanks

Derek

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Derek,

The Office Customization Tool is only available if you're using an Enterprise
edition of Microsoft Office with an Enterprise/Volume license key.
The Technet, MSDN and Actionpack subscriptions to Office 2007 use retail product
keys.
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I am trying to give the customization tool a go. I have Office Ultimate
and Pro Plus (both from technet)

Neither one of them seem to allow me to use the customization tool... I
get an error that states "Files necessary to run the Office
Customization tool were not found. Run Setup from the installation
point of a qualifying product"

I have a network install point for both pro and ultimate, have tried the
UNC path and a drive mapped to the location. Same error on both.

I read that Office 2007 Enterprise is needed for this to work, but would
imagine that Ultimate has all the same bells and whistles as
Enterprise... anyone have a clue what I might be missing?

thanks

Derek >>
--
I hope this has been helpful to you,

Bob Buckland ?
Microsoft MVP, Office products family

*courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[FlyerTech]

The admin folder is available for download with the "'2007 Office system
Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization
Tool version 2.0' (http://tinyurl.com/2rr8c2)".

Extracted files contain an "Admin" folder, copy this folder to the root
of your network installation point and then run the setup.exe /admin.

Download contains all the admin templates to customize user
config/settings.

Although the layout of the new templates isn't very tidy once they're
imported - lack of thought and attention to detail!

and why give us a retail key with enterprise edition from action pack?