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  • Blog Post: The new Office: What are your options, what's changed and what's new?

    In this blog post, our desktop specialist hosts Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh, walk us through the differences between the Click-to-Run and MSI-based Office versions, the new IT Pro capabilities, and the premise of the new Office including a demo of user based multi-device support. <a title="The...
    on26 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Now you can reset or remove a password from a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file—with Office 2013!

    This post describes how to use the new DocRecrypt tool and your company public and private key to unlock password-protected Office 2010 or Office 2013 Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files. Password protected files with lost or forgotten passwords have plagued IT admins since the password feature was first...
    on24 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Introducing Office Telemetry in the new Office

    This post is written by Makoto Yamagishi, a Program Manager with the Office Solutions Management team On July 16th 2012, we unveiled the next version of Office. One of the powerful features for IT Pros in the new Office is Office Telemetry, which we built to make IT Pros’ Office upgrade experience...
    on1 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Service Pack 3 for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 is now available

    The Office Sustained Engineering team has released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007. For complete details, including a list of all download and description links to the SP3 packages, see Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 3 Availability . In addition, the links are available...
    on27 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Service Pack Uninstall Tool for Office 2010 is released

    The Microsoft Service Pack Uninstall Tool for Office 2010 is now available. Administrators and advanced users in organizations that have installed Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) can use the tool to return Office 2010 to its pre-SP1 state. The Uninstall Tool enables them to uninstall the service...
    on23 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: Office Compatibility Tools Update 1 Available for Download

    The Office Compatibility Tools Update 1 delivers important fixes to the Office Compatibility tools improving reliability and performance. The update addresses the existing Office Compatibility tools including: Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM), Office Environment Assessment Tool (OEAT), &...
    on8 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: Collect data about Office installations by using the new Robust Office Inventory Scan script

    The Office Sustained Engineering and the Office Deployment Support teams have published Robust Office Inventory Scan (ROIScan.vbs), a new Visual Basic script that administrators can use to collect data about Office installations and to help detect and troubleshoot installation and updates errors. When...
    on26 May 2011

  • Blog Post: Project Resource Center redesigned for Project 2010

    The new Project 2010 Resource Center contains links to numerous articles and videos to help you learn the IT professional aspects of Project Professional 2010 and Project Standard 2010, including related information about Project Server 2010. The resource center format is consistent with the other Office...
    on12 May 2011

  • Blog Post: The Office 2010 KMS host is no longer supported on Windows Small Business Server 2003

    If you are creating an Office 2010 KMS host on Windows Server 2003, be aware that an Office 2010 KMS host is currently supported only on the Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2003. Office 2010 KMS host on Windows Small Business Server 2003 is not supported. See the following...
    on10 May 2011

  • Blog Post: Having problems uninstalling Office 2010, 2007, or 2003 from the Control Panel? Use the Fix it Tool

    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 cannot be done effectively from the Control Panel...
    on21 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: Office 2010 Support Comes to the User State Migration Tool

    Today Microsoft has released an update bringing Microsoft Office 2010 migration support to User State Migration Tool (USMT) 4.0. USMT 4.0, with the latest update, now supports the following Office migration scenarios: Office Upgrade Scenarios OS Migration Scenarios ...
    on2 Feb 2011

  • Blog Post: Plan for Office 2010 and Internet Explorer migration with MAP Toolkit 5.5

    We have talked about using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit to prepare for your migration to Office 2010, now this story gets even better. Today the MAP team has released the next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit —version 5.5. It is now available for free...
    on17 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: Why is there a Microsoft Office 2010 Upload Center?

    The Microsoft Office 2010 Upload Center enables you to monitor files that you’re uploading to a server. In particular, the Microsoft Office Upload Center uses a feature known as Efficient File Transfer (EFT) to help reduce bandwidth usage between SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 applications. After...
    on27 Dec 2010

  • Blog Post: TechNet Tips assist you with Office 2010 volume activation and more

    If you are already familiar with Office 2010 administration and need a quick solution, TechNet Office 2010 tips will help you set up Office 2010 products and features. New tips are added periodically. The following tips can help to easily activate your Office 2010 volume licensed clients: Understand...
    on16 Nov 2010

  • Blog Post: Configure Office 2010 to volume activate at the same time you install a MAK key

    If you are using the Office Customization Tool (OCT) to configure a Multiple Activation Key (MAK) key, you can also activate Office 2010 at the time that you install the MAK key. A MAK key is one of the methods that Office Activation Technologies provides for activating products licensed under Microsoft...
    on26 Oct 2010

  • Blog Post: Office 2010 Office Customization Tool and Windows Installer version

    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-bit Office 2010 and one for 64-bit Office 2010. The...
    on21 Sep 2010

  • Blog Post: Differences in how OMPM and OCCI generate macro counts

    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 Manager (OMPM) and Office 2010 Code Compatibility...
    on10 Sep 2010

  • Blog Post: Updated Group Policy and OCT settings reference for Office 2010

    The Group Policy and OCT settings reference (Office2010GroupPolicyAndOCTSettings_Reference.xls ), part of the Office 2010 Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization Tool ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=189316 ) download package, has been updated to include information...
    on26 Jul 2010

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Tools Availability

    If you haven’t already, check out the Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog post that highlights the four new tools that can help IT Professionals expedite an Office 2010 deployment. Tools covered are: Microsoft Assessment & Planning Toolkit 5.0 (MAP) Office Environment Assessment...
    on20 Jul 2010

  • Blog Post: Office 2010 Group Policy Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization Tool download available

    Microsoft has released Group Policy Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization Tool (OCT) for Office 2010. You can download the files from the Microsoft Download Center: Office 2010 Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization Tool (http://go...
    on3 May 2010

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 (Beta)

    The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 (Beta) is an agent-less tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments. Some of the new features in the MAP Toolkit 5.0 (Beta...
    on5 Feb 2010

  • Blog Post: Assessment tools cheat sheet

    If you're in the process of planning an Office deployment, have a look at the newly published article Assessment tools for the 2007 Office system ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=154575 ). Please let us know what you think & if you find it helpful! We'll plan to have something similar for...
    on10 Jun 2009

  • Blog Post: New IT Showcase article: Securing the Microsoft Environment Using Desktop Patch Management

    IT Showcase just release a new article about how Microsoft uses SCCM to manage desktop updates. Some highlights: Architecture Microsoft IT implemented System Center Configuration Manager in a Windows Server® 2008 environment with Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 based on the following configuration:...
    on5 Mar 2009

  • Blog Post: Add-ins scanner: AddInSpy and AS Diagnostic tools for Microsoft Office add-ins available on MSDN

    AddInSpy is a diagnostic tool that detects all registered Microsoft Office add-ins on a computer and reports information about the add-ins. The tool works with all versions of Microsoft Office applications that support COM add-ins, as well as all types of COM add-ins. The tool is available as a free...
    on17 Feb 2009

  • Blog Post: New download: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP)

    Earlier this week, Microsoft released the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP), the evolved version of the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tool. MAP is an inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can simplify your migration to the following: Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Windows...
    on5 Feb 2009
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