I can understand the wish to not touch every machine. In an environment of ~500 machines it's very much the same case. We get through about 10 and get bored. :P
As v2 will be a MSI based installer you can install it on all the machines without too much hastle if there's a way to quickly deploy it with novell that is. I have no clue about novell, I've used it somewhat (very very limited) and have had no good experiences with it. I use windows 2003. With Windows Server 2003 (and maybe 2000, I'm not as familiar with it) you can specify a list of MSI files that will automatically get installed on the machines you specify. Perhaps your novell server has a similar option. In a worst case scenario you might create a cd with an autorun.inf file that points to a bat file with a command: msiexec /qb /i openoffice2.msi You can find autorun examples on just about any commercialy produced CD. If you want help along the lines of bat files, I've found google as well as www.msfn.org/board as well as unattended.msfn.org very useful (especially the intermediate section). Cheers, Jacob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
