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Getting started with OMPM 2010

Posted over 3 years ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
- 52 Comments
Still using OMPM? Give Office Telemetry Dashboard a try! ___________________________________________________________ To celebrate the release of the Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) for Office 2010, I will be creating a series of blog posts...
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How to import Outlook Data Files (.pst) – the files formally known as Personal Folder Files (.PST)

Posted over 4 years ago

by Catherine Watson
- 41 Comments
If you upgrade from Outlook 2007 to Outlook 2010, your .pst files will auto-magically be imported into your Outlook profile. You don’t need to do anything (beyond upgrading) to get them there. If you want to do a clean install where you uninstall...
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Where is the Office 2000 SR-1 administrator updates (O2KSR1aDL.exe)?

Posted over 4 years ago

by Catherine Watson
- 25 Comments
The Office 2000 SR-1 administrator updates (O2KSR1aDL.exe) is no longer available on the Microsoft Download Center. This is because Office 2000 extended support expired July 2009: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/Default.aspx?p1=2484 If you...
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Deploying the 2007 Office system by using System Center Configuration Manager

Posted over 4 years ago

by RossCC
- 23 Comments
Hello, my name is Ross and I'm one of the technical writers for the Office Resource Kit. I'm posting a draft copy of this article in order to receive your (customer) feedback before the article is published in the 2007 Office Resource Kit on Microsoft...
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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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Build your own book of TechNet articles

Posted over 2 years ago

by Dee T
- 15 Comments
Although the Office Resource Kit offers a set of downloadable books , we realize that there are many more possibilities for tailoring sets of articles for specific environments. So…the good news is that you can now build your own books of TechNet...
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New forum for Office 2010 volume activation

Posted over 4 years ago

by Catherine Watson
- 15 Comments
Since the November 18 launch of the Microsoft Office 2010 public beta, many of you have installed and activated the Volume License version of Office 2010. The volume activation process is evolving with each new version of Office; to provide answers to...
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Updated - Deploying the 2007 Office system by using System Center Configuration Manager

Posted over 4 years ago

by RossCC
- 13 Comments
Thank-you everyone for your feedback. I'm now posting the most recent draft copy of this article. The final copy of the article will be published in the 2007 Office Resource Kit on Microsoft TechNet, located here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...
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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
- 13 Comments
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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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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Why is there a Microsoft Office 2010 Upload Center?

Posted over 3 years ago

by DarrylMo
- 11 Comments
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...
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Quick tips for the Office Customization Tool (OCT)

Posted over 5 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
- 11 Comments
For those of you not familiar with the Office Customization Tool (OCT), it is your main tool for unified setup, customization, and maintenance of the Office 2007 system. It's free and comes with the volume licensed version of the 2007 Office system. It...
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(Almost) everything you ever wanted to know about Access 2010

Posted over 3 years ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
- 10 Comments
I just inherited ownership of Access 2010 IT Pro documentation for the Office 2010 Resource Kit. And by documentation, I mean one topic-- Changes in Access 2010 . Historically, the Office Resource Kit has contained very little content about Access. On...
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Introducing Office Web Apps Server

Posted 8 months ago

by Catherine Watson
- 10 Comments
This post is written by Nick Simons, a Senior Program Manager for Office Web Apps. In the summer of 2010, we introduced you to the Office Web Apps: browser-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. We made these products available as a...
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Experience from the Field: Resolving the OMPM issue “Type of column ‘WarningInfo’ in table ‘osWarning’ is too small to hold data”

Posted over 2 years ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
- 9 Comments
My name is Anthony Cafarelli and I’m a Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services who recently compiled a list of useful advice that I gained while performing OMPM scans at client sites. In this blog post I would like to share some of that knowledge...