The Office Resource Kit team is taking a hard look at what planning content to provide and how to organize it. We're looking for feedback on what resources you'd want to plan an Office deployment. Would you want prescriptive best practices to plan your deployment? Would you want job aids like templates, checklists, and a project plan? What job aids would be most valuable? What resources are you using now to plan your desktop deployments? Are you printing planning information out? How do you store

Updates to the Group Policy Administrative Template files for the 2007 Office system are here! For more information about how to download and use the files, see Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization Tool updates . The download includes the following: Office2007GroupPolicyAndOCTSettings.xls , an Excel spreadsheet that provides information about 2007 Microsoft Office system Group Policy settings and OPA settings. An \ADM folder that contains updated .adm files in

There are many learning resources that you can make available to your users to help your deployment of the 2007 Office system go more smoothly. These include: Office Online . Users can look up how-to information, download templates and clip art, and access many different types of learning resources. Interactive User Interface Guides . These popular downloads show users where their favorite Office 2003 commands are in the new 2007 Office system interface. Office Webcasts and Podcasts . These video

The 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide is live, and you can check it out on the TechNet Security Center . This solution accelerator can help you keep users productive and help secure your systems and data. It will help you to determine how to set the hundreds of security and privacy settings available with the 2007 Office system, balancing your organization's requirements for security and functionality. The 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide solution accelerator consists of the following components:

That's pronounced MO-ICE. It stands for Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment, and yes, you should have it. What MOICE does and why you need it MOICE uses the converters in the 2007 Office release to convert Microsoft Office binary format files (used in Office 2003 and earlier) into the Microsoft Office Open XML format. This process helps to remove the potential threat that may exist if the document opens in the binary format. MOICE converts incoming files in an isolated environment to

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

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

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.