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Office 2010 setup may fail when upgrading from Office 2003 if the Office 2003 Local Installation Source (LIS) is corrupt

Posted over 3 years ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
- 21 Comments
Many thanks to Curtis Sawin, a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services, for providing this content for the Office Resource Kit Blog. Recently, while performing deployment testing of Microsoft Office 2010 for a customer, we ran into a specific...
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Office 2010 Language Packs available

Posted over 3 years ago

by PattyN_
- 1 Comments
Office 2010 Language Packs are add-ins that enable desktops to support multiple languages, including Menus/Display, Help, Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Spell Checker. Language packs enhance the user experience. For example, users can choose to use individual...
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Microsoft Office 2010 Security Baseline beta now available for download

Posted over 3 years ago

by RossCC
- 12 Comments
UPDATE (NEW) - 11/11/2010 : The Security Solution Accelerators team recently announced the release of the new Office 2010 Security Baseline that can be used with the Security Compliance Manager tool! New users can access the Office 2010 Security...
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Office 2010 Office Customization Tool and Windows Installer version

Posted over 3 years ago

by PattyN_
- 0 Comments
We've had some questions about the Windows Installer version required by the Office 2010 Office Customization Tool (OCT) and would like to clarify the requirements. In Office 2010, there are two architecture-specific versions of the OCT, one for 32...
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Differences in how OMPM and OCCI generate macro counts

Posted over 3 years ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
- 7 Comments
Update : This issue has been fixed as of August 2011 in Update 1 of OMPM. See our recent blog post for more information. One of our field consultants, Curtis Sawin, discovered a discrepancy in the macro counts displayed by Office 2010 Migration Planning...
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You asked...We Answered...Interactive Guides

Posted over 3 years ago

by Karina Meik
- 0 Comments
When customers are migrating from earlier versions of Office, one of the many questions they ask ask is how to get the end-users ready for Office 2010 and once they are on the new version how can we make it easier for them to transition their knowledge...
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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Update 1 is now available

Posted over 3 years ago

by DarrylMo
- 1 Comments
This is the newly released version of MDT 2010, a Solution Accelerator for operating system and application deployment. MDT 2010 Update 1 supports Office 2010, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 in addition to Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows...
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KMS 1.2 recommended for setting up an Office 2010 KMS host on Windows Server 2003

Posted over 3 years ago

by DarrylMo
- 0 Comments
To set up an Office 2010 KMS host on Windows Server 2003, you must install Key Management Service (KMS). Although the minimum required version is KMS 1.1, we highly recommend that you install KMS 1.2, which recognizes virtual computers as part of the...
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You asked…We answered…How do we train our users on Office 2010 applications?

Posted over 3 years ago

by Karina Meik
- 0 Comments
When customers are migrating from earlier versions of Office, one of the many questions they ask is how to get the end-users ready for Office 2010? The ORK team put together the User Readiness and Training Resource Center ( http://technet...
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Office 2010 Security - New Resource Center

Posted over 3 years ago

by RossCC
- 0 Comments
We recently created a new Office 2010 Security resource center . Please take it for a test drive and let us know what you think. Is there anything that you would like to see added? Do you find this resource useful? We would love to hear back from you...
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Where did my ORK blog go?

Posted over 3 years ago

by Catherine Watson
- 0 Comments
This blog looks suspiciously different, doesn't it? What changed? Well we changed the name to better reflect the scope of what we post and to continue our alignment with the Office and Windows Springboard Series program. This is in line with the changes...