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Free training products from Microsoft Learning

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
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The Microsoft Learning Center on TechNet offers a huge library of learning resources, including classes, books, online training, and more. You can also subscribe to different learning plans to help you train for a certification exam or specific IT task...
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Updated ORK article: Digital signing of documents in the 2007 Office system

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
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The ORK article, Digital signing of documents in the 2007 Office system , has been updated. This article provides information about digital signatures and certificates and how to use them. It includes the following articles: What is a digital signature...
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What do you think about application virtualization?

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
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This is something that I haven’t played around with a whole lot, but I’m about to. I’ve heard all kinds of buzz about it, both internal and external to Microsoft. So far, I’ve heard some pretty impressive numbers and results from organizations deploying...
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The Office Resource Kit has a redesigned TechNet page

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
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Be sure to visit our new Tech Center on Technet . We have a new design for getting you where you need to go faster. You can choose your task (Evaluate, Plan, Deploy, Operate) to find useful articles, webcasts, and solutions. Clicking on the Library...
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Office 2007 deployment scripts

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
- 1 Comments
I received a question about deployment scripts for Office 2007. I’m not one of The Scripting Guys , but I think I can at least point you in the right direction. If you are automating a deployment of Office 2007 with scripts, see our ORK article, Setup...
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GPSI deployment considerations for Office 2007

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
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This is an excerpt from our article, Use Group Policy Software Installation to deploy the 2007 Office system : Although administrators can use Group Policy Software Installation to deploy the 2007 Office system to computers in small organizations,...
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Deploying Office 2007 with GPSI is not for everyone—but it's possible

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
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Because of some comments I've received, I just wanted to clarify that the Group Policy downloads I’ve mentioned before are for setting policies to enforce users' Office configurations, not for actually deploying Office 2007. Deploying Office 2007 with...
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New ORK article: Automatically configure Office Outlook 2007 user accounts

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
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You can find our new ORK article here: Automatically configure Office Outlook 2007 user accounts . Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 includes the ability to automatically configure user accounts. Office Outlook 2007 uses one of two discovery mechanisms to...
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Updated ORK article: Changes in Word 2007

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
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The article Changes in Word 2007 has been updated and republished on TechNet. It lists what's new, changed, and removed in Microsoft Office Word 2007 from Microsoft Office 2003. If you are planning a migration to Word 2007, you’ll also find our ORK...
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Microsoft Office Labs—try out these “concept cars”!

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
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If you haven’t already, visit Microsoft Office Labs . Microsoft employees and interns use this as a proving ground for their code prototypes and ideas. Read their About page to learn more about them and caveats for using tools on their site (mostly—don...
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Office 2007 Group Policy revisited

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
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Earlier, we told you about the new Group Policy admin templates available for download . Many thanks to Ned Pyle of the Ask the Directory Services Team blog for posting this Office 2007 Group Policy article with a complete set of links! The AskDS team...
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Download contains expired security certificates—and that's ok

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
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In February, we posted a download that contains a Systems Management Server (SMS) package definition (.sms) file for Office 2007, along with security certificate (.cer) files used for publishing to users’ Trusted Publishers so Office 2007 will automatically...
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Office Resource Kit 2007 downloads

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
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If you want the whole enchilada, check out Microsoft Office Desktop Applications Downloads on our TechNet site. To hopefully get you where you want to go a little faster, I’m listing our most popular downloads here. Downloadable Books from the 2007...
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How do I deploy multiple languages in Office 2007?

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
- 2 Comments
By default, Setup installs one language on a computer, but you can customize it to deploy multiple languages. If you just want to deploy a default language to every computer, see our ORK article, Deploy multiple language versions of the 2007 Office system...
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Plan multiple languages carefully for Office 2007

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
- 3 Comments
Our ORK article, Deploy multiple language versions of the 2007 Office system , states that it is important to plan languages at the beginning of your deployment. In the words of one of the support engineers here at Microsoft, it is “really, really important...