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#188168 - 2008-06-11 10:33 PM Deploy Office 2007
Randerson Randerson Just in Town Registered: 2008-06-11 Posts: 3	Hey guys, first post here, hope you can help $\:\)$ Bottom line: I need to deploy Office 2007 to 65+ workstations. In the past, with for example Office 2k3, I have simply used GPO and pointed the policy to the single .MSI for the installation. However, in all of Microsoft's wisdom that method no longer works because there is no all encompassing .MSI. Instead there are 6-8 .MSI's, one for each office application. I read that there are two method of deploying it if you only have GPO at your disposal. the first is make 6-8 GPO's for each portion of Office and the other is to use a logon script to install. Is this a capable job for Kixtart and if so where should I begin?
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#188169 - 2008-06-11 10:35 PM Re: Deploy Office 2007 [Re: Randerson]
Randerson Randerson Just in Town Registered: 2008-06-11 Posts: 3	Also I just noticed that the stock avatar I picked is a spitting image of that psychopathic, incest crazy old guy that fathered 6 children with his oldest daughter... ..Just want to say the avatar looked a lot different when it was smaller and I picked it :P
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#188170 - 2008-06-11 10:50 PM Re: Deploy Office 2007 [Re: Randerson]
Glenn Barnas Glenn Barnas KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-01-28 Posts: 4402 Loc: New Jersey	Welcome to KORG! Kix can certainly handle the job. Just keep in mind that login scripts run in the user's security context without any admin priveleges. They will probably need to be local admins to install software. Of course, if you create a script to run all 6-8 installs, couldn't you just use one GPO to invoke that script with admin rights? Glenn _________________________ Actually I am a Rocket Scientist! $\:D$
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#188193 - 2008-06-12 03:10 PM Re: Deploy Office 2007 [Re: Glenn Barnas]
Randerson Randerson Just in Town Registered: 2008-06-11 Posts: 3	Interesting idea... Thanks for the info, it didn't occur to me that login scripts run with the logging-in user's security permissions for the local computer so I wouldn't be able to do it that way. Can you point me in the right direction for your other idea, that is running a script with GPO? Oh and thanks for the friendly welcome $\:\)$
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#188194 - 2008-06-12 03:16 PM Re: Deploy Office 2007 [Re: Randerson]
Mart Mart KiX Supporter Registered: 2002-03-27 Posts: 4673 Loc: The Netherlands	You can run a startup script that checks if office 2K7 is installed and if not start the installation. Startup scripts have local system permissions. _________________________ Mart - Chuck Norris once sold ebay to ebay on ebay.
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#188233 - 2008-06-17 12:23 AM Re: Deploy Office 2007 [Re: Mart]
Witto Witto MM club member Registered: 2004-09-29 Posts: 1828 Loc: Belgium	Maybe you can write a Kixtart script that pops up a box saying something like "Please wait, installing Office 2007" and right after that a Shell command starting the Office 2007 I presume this can help you. This script checks very fast for the existance and version of the uninstall registry key. I just used it to deploy an AntiVirus agent to 100+ workstations.
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#188261 - 2008-06-18 03:26 PM Re: Deploy Office 2007 [Re: Randerson]
DStelz DStelz Getting the hang of it Registered: 2007-01-26 Posts: 72 Loc: Green Bay, WI	I did the same thing for 100+ some workstations. If you don't have several OUs in your AD structure, it might be a little more difficult, but I would do exactly what Mart suggested and just create a batch file and put it in a startup script to call the setup.exe. If you have different locations, it might be smart to copy the files to the different locations as it would take forever to do the install over a WAN. Then create a kix script to run the install depending on what IP address the workstation is at.
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#188262 - 2008-06-18 04:01 PM Re: Deploy Office 2007 [Re: DStelz]
Mart Mart KiX Supporter Registered: 2002-03-27 Posts: 4673 Loc: The Netherlands	Installing Office 2K7 over a slow WAN link makes no sense indeed so a local copy at each site would solve that. A kix script checking @site, computer group membership, part of @wksta (we have the location as the first three characters), etc.... to see from what location it should pull the setup files would do the trick just fine. _________________________ Mart - Chuck Norris once sold ebay to ebay on ebay.
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