Office XP/2K install for every new user

[Brian]

Office XP/2K goes through an install process when a new
user logs on to the machine. I assume that this is tied
to profiles. If the install was done from a network
location, the install for these new users will fail if
they are not connected to that network drive. Is there a
way to turn off this install process totally and just
have office load for every user without that annoying
install process at the beginning?

 

[Jerry Ham]

We did just what you are asked when we rolled out OfficeXP. What we did was
to capture the changes made to a profile when that "configuring Office"
Windows Installer box came up and apply those changes to the default user
profile. Then, the settings are already there and Windows Installer doesn't
need to activate.

This does work fine.

Jerry

 

[Chuck]

I am having the same problem with new users not able to
run MS Office 2K applications. I installed Office 2K with
the administrator login but some users can not run Office.
(Box pops up to install Office again.) I don't follow what
changes you are doing to the default user profile are or
how you tracked these changes. Can you be more specific
please?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info.

How did you capture the changes that were being made? Is
it an .MSI file that needs to be loaded in the default
user profile?

Or do you log on as the default user and then install MS
Office? If so, do you know what the logon name and
password is for default user?

Thanks again,

Brian

 

[Jerry Ham]

We used Wise Installmaster to capture the changes - however picture taker or
some other capture tool works just as well.

We do NOT do that junk about making the currently logged on account be the
default user.

It is fairly simple to take the reg keys in question and export them to a
reg file. Then, use the registry editor's "Load hive" function to load the
NTUSER.DAT file for "Default User" into the registry. (We do it as
HKEY_USERS\DEF) Change the entries in the .reg file from HKEY_CURRENT_USER
to HKEY_USERS\DEF, and then import the file. Unload the hive, and presto -
new profiles have this data in them automatically. (We actually do this in
code with a tool we wrote, but it works manually just as well).

You don't want to capture any user specific stuff, so make sure to specify
the NOUSERNAME=1 value.

Jerry