You can definitely do this with group policy, and the office team has put a great deal of effort into documenting this too. It's actually pretty straightforward. I have a short writeup of what to do on my blog at http://briandesmond.com/blog/archive/2003/10/25/233.aspx.
Once you get the base admin point created, you're going to need to apply all the patches on the office site to the admin point. This is straightforward to do, however it does require some fun in a command prompt: Grab all the patches here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/updates/2003/default.htm and extract them some where convenient Here's the doc on applying patches: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/office/xp/all/reskit/en -us/exc1002a.mspx. It's for XP, but the procedure hasn't changed at all. Hope this helps. --Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Payton on the Web! Http://www.wpcp.org v: 773.534.0034 x135 f: 773.534.0035 > -----Original Message----- > From: GARY SMITH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] Office2003 Rollout > > I have to roll out Office 2003 onto around 350 desktops. Any great in site > into the best approach here. I have been looking at some third party > applications in particularly Altiris, but I was wondering if it could be > done through Group Policy / Software deployment. All desktops are W2K. > > Gary Smith > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
