How do you plan your desktop deployments?

re: How do you plan your desktop deployments?

kurakuraninja — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:01:39 GMT

Great post, explained really well and I could really understand. Thank you.

re: How do you plan your desktop deployments?

Catherine Watson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:53:26 GMT

Regarding Margaret's comment again - The OCT settings are available in an excel format today. The file name is "Office2007GroupPolicyAndOCTSettings.xls" and it comes with the 2007 Office system Administrative Template files. You can download this from the Microsoft Download Center:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=92d8519a-e143-4aee-8f7a-e4bbaeba13e7&displaylang=en

- Cat

re: How do you plan your desktop deployments?

Catherine Watson — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:48:49 GMT

Regarding StefanWord2k's comment - you might look at Camtasia if you haven't already:

http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

Regarding Margaret's comment - Thanks for the feedback! Let us know if you think of anything else that would be useful. :)

- Cat

re: How do you plan your desktop deployments?

Margaret Stokes — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:07:59 GMT

As an ITIL wannabe I would prefer the whole of the installation process to be in a check sheet format via an excel spreadsheet(?). Having the OCT settings in a format that had gave an explanation of what each setting was for (as in the OCT itself)and a field as to why we did or didnt alter the default state. This would aid change management but if nothing else save me having to type everything in and try to remember where in the 'schema' I should place my changes.

re: How do you plan your desktop deployments?

StefanWord2k — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:34:40 GMT

We would like to have a tool to record desktop videos for training specific issues.

We know about the Office Community Clips recorder from MS however we don't want to use voice explanations but rather add explanations in subtitles and legends directly to the desktop video.

Also it cannot record the Office button menu.

Unfortunately we did not find any other tool or tool combination to efficiently perform these tasks while keeping a decent file size for the videos. MS Movie Maker would be ok for cutting, etc. if you could easily add subtitles and legends to the video.