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You Asked...We Answered...How to programmatically install the PowerPoint 2003 hotfix related to KB2543241 and KB2464588

Posted over 2 years ago

by Karina Meik
- 1 Comments
Our Support Engineer Eric E. on the Deployment Team, provided a great response to customers dealing with the enterprise deployment of the KB2543241 hotfix. His post describes how to programmatically install the PowerPoint 2003 hotfix related to KB2543241...
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You Asked... We Answered...What is a Ribbon Hero?

Posted over 2 years ago

by Karina Meik
- 0 Comments
Ribbon Hero is an Office add-in that offers a fun way to improve your users’ Office skills by using the ribbon. For those of you that are not familiar with the ribbon, the ribbon interface was introduced in Office 2007. The ribbon replaced the...
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Common questions when planning Office 2010 deployments

Posted over 2 years ago

by Alistair S
- 0 Comments
My name is Alistair Speirs and I'm a Senior Product Manager in the Office team. My personal philosophy is that there are two powerful prerequisites to help people do their best work - A. a ready supply of espresso coffee and B. a well-managed desktop...
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Having problems uninstalling Office 2010, 2007, or 2003 from the Control Panel? Use the Fix it Tool

Posted over 2 years ago

by DarrylMo
- 2 Comments
To ensure that your Office 2010 installation works smoothly and efficiently, we recommend that before installing Office 2010, you uninstall any earlier versions of Office that may still reside on your computer. If you find that uninstalling these versions...
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Office Communicator 2005 is not supported with Outlook 2010

Posted over 2 years ago

by Catherine Watson
- 1 Comments
Hi there, We've heard that there has been some questions on which versions of Microsoft Office Communicator are supported with Outlook 2010. The supported versions are Office Communicator 2007 and later versions (including OC 2007 R2 and Lync 2010). Office...
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Office Professional Plus for Office 365 Beta available

Posted over 2 years ago

by PattyN_
- 1 Comments
Today, Microsoft announced availability of the Office 365 Public Beta. Office 365 combines the Microsoft Office Professional Plus client suite with cloud versions of the following products and services: Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint...
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Deploying the Office Environment Assessment Tool (OEAT) by using ConfigMgr and SCCM

Posted over 2 years ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
- 3 Comments
Looking for more information about how to deploy OEAT using SCCM? Rob York, a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft Premier Field Engineering, UK, has written a blog post that provides step-by-step procedures for creating the settings.xml file to be distributed...
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Office 2010 Service Pack 1 is coming soon!

Posted over 2 years ago

by DarrylMo
- 7 Comments
Office 2010 SP1, along with SharePoint 2010 SP1, will be available mid-summer 2011. For the latest details and how you can stay connected with the release updates, see Office 2010 Service Pack 1 is Almost Here .
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Office File Validation for Office 2003 and Office 2007

Posted over 2 years ago

by RossCC
- 3 Comments
Office File Validation, a Microsoft Office 2010 security feature, is now available for both Office 2003 and Office 2007. We strongly recommend that Office File Validation be applied to all computers that use Office 2003 and Office 2007. However, Office...