rkircher

I'm with you Rich. Absolute BS how MS has changed MSI/MST setups all in an
effort to boost sales of SMS. Well small business can't afford to buy
upgrades to office let alone SMS and a server to run it on.

As to startup scripts, I'm a programmer and I don’t' have time to mess with
scripts that I didn't need before. And I have need to PUBLISH Office so it
can be installed from add remove programs on an as needed bases not just dump
it on all my PCs. Well you can't do that with a script can you. And if you
can there’s not help around.

Use the one and only MSI that does work with GPs you say? Nope... Can't
customize that install w/o having to study a cryptic XML structure that isn't
as flexible as the old MSTs anyway. EG, I need to place icons on the
desktop. I have to set some Outlook settings at install. Haven't seen
anything for that in the XML syntax.

And if all that ins’t bad enough the thing that has really P'd me is I've
posted twice to this form about the exact same problem looking for advice and
not one MVP has bothered to answer. Fact is they just don't give a rats a...


MS has really F'd us little guys with move and then complexly left us out to
dry on the support end.

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Rob

"Rich" wrote:

> I find it very disgusting by Microsoft to handcuff IT administrators in
> regards to upgrading their copies of Office across a network and domain.
>
> We paid big bucks to properly license this software, and it looks like we
> are going to pay to pay more big bucks to bring in the proper freelancers to
> help deploy this manually because we can't do an install of Office over the
> network. It's a total joke.
>
>
>
> - We can't install Office 2007 via Group Policy because the upgrade does
> not uninstall our current copies of Office 2000 and 2003
>
> - We can't do a scripted install of Office 2007 because 90% of our users do
> not have local administrator rights to their PCs
>
> - We can't use SMS because a) we don't have it b) it costs money and we
> already dumped a ton of cash into Office 2007 and c) even if we were to get
> it there is a learning curve to know how to use it and I don't have the time
> for that
>
> - I can't use the "install using elevated privledges" option in GPO for a
> scripted install because Microsoft DISABLED THIS FEATURE FOR OFFICE 2007 (how
> convenient)
>
>
> I can't believe I am the only person who is beyond fustrated with this
> situation. Are there any alternatives? I have hundreds of users on my
> network. Installing this one by one would be a nightmare.
>
>
>