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2007 Office system migration tools: OMPM

aweiss — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT

If you have a lot of files to migrate from the legacy Office binary formats to the Office Open XML formats in the 2007 Office system, try out the Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM). You can find the documentation for OMPM at OMPM online version or OMPM downloadable book. OMPM is a set of tools that includes:

File scanner. You can use this to perform a light scan to take an inventory of your files, or to perform a deep scan that uncovers potential migration issues for each file.
Database and utilities. The database utilities will automatically create and populate a database for the scanner and reporting utilities, and also perform import/export operations.
An Access 2007 reporting tool that presents the data in different views.
Office File Converter to convert files in bulk.
Version Extraction Tool to extract versions of Word files.

In addition, be sure to visit the OMPM wiki. This has an area for OMPM Contributions, where Microsoft and community members have contributed useful extensions for OMPM, including:

Filtering for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint files that contain macros
Updated version of the Access reporting tool
Updated database import scripts
Office File Converter (OFC) fix
Link repair macro to fix broken links caused by changed file extensions
Method for using the Compatibility Pack for single document or batch conversion (instead of using OFC)

The OMPM wiki also contains useful information about Known Issues and Troubleshooting.

- Andrea Weiss

Where is the 2007 Office Resource Kit anyway?

aweiss — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT

The short answer is: There isn't one, exactly.

Now for the long answer....

Many of the tools that were in the 2003 Office Resource Kit have been incorporated into the 2007 Office system. We made other tools freely available in the Microsoft Office Download Center.

All of our documentation is available online in the Microsoft Office Desktop Applications TechCenter on TechNet. We also offer our content in Downloadable Books.

If you are deploying the 2007 Office system, it would be a good idea to go to our TechCenter and browse around for awhile. Try clicking the tabs on the top menu. Our site also has a cool new feature called "eyebrows." That's right. They look like breadcrumbs (the line of links just below the top menu), but if you mouse over on any of them, they show a dropdown list of other useful links.

Here's the tour

Home: Here you'll find Featured Resources, links to our Technical Library (where you can also find other Office Resource Kit documentation, links to Solutions and Scenarios, and more useful links along the right-hand panel.
Library: This is our landing page for the 2007 Office Resource Kit, the Office 2003 Resource Kit, the Office XP Resource Kit, and the Office 2000 Resource Kit. It might be confusing to see the 2007 Office Resource Kit on TechNet, and the other resource kits on Office Online. With this release, we realized that our content really belongs on TechNet, along with all of the other documentation for IT professionals.
Learn: Be sure to check out all of the learning resources for the 2007 Office system.
Downloads: This page directs you to downloads for multiple versions of Office. These downloads include tools, updates, evaluation software, viewers, compatibility and converter packs, and of course, our Downloadable Books.
Support: Take a look at the top issues and recommended KB articles. On this page, you can also find webcasts, information about subscribing to TechNet, and how to get help from Microsoft.
Community: Find blogs, user groups, MVPs, and other communities.

So come to our site and poke around for awhile. If you're not able to find what you're looking for, let us know!

Welcome to the Office Resource Kit blog!

aweiss — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT

We are glad to have this opportunity to share our content and to get your feedback. We hope this will be a way for IT pros to share their experiences with Office client deployment and migration, as well.

Who We Are

We are technical writers who write for IT professionals who are deploying Office 2007. You can find our content at Microsoft Office Desktop Applications TechCenter on TechNet. We are not support professionals, but will do our best to help where we can.