Deploying new installations of Office

Deploying new installations of Office

If this is a new installation of the 2007 Office system, you can deploy Office by assigning it to computers within a GPO that is associated with a particular Active Directory container such as a domain or organizational unit. Computer-assigned applications are installed the next time the computer restarts.

To deploy Office using Group Policy-based Software Installation

1. Open Group Policy Management console. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Administrative Tools, and then click Group Policy Management.
2. In the console tree, double-click Group Policy Objects in the forest and domain that contain the GPO that you want to edit. This is located in Forest name, Domains, Domain name, Group Policy Objects.
3. Right-click the GPO you want to modify and click Edit. This opens Group Policy Object Editor.
4. In the left pane in Group Policy Object Editor, expand the Computer Configuration tree.
5. In the left pane, expand Software Settings and select Software Installation.
6. Right-click in the right pane, point to New and click Package.
7. In the Open dialog box, browse to the network installation point you created and select the Windows Installer (MSI) file in the main product folder of the Office product that you are installing. For example, for Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, selectEnterprise.WW\EnterpriseWW.msi.
8. Click Open.
9. Select Assigned to use the default options, or select Advanced to customize these options.
10. Close all dialog boxes.

    Note:

    If you are deploying 2007 Office in languages other than U.S. English, you should also deploy the ShellUI.MST transform file. Transforms (.mst files) are customizations that are applied to Windows Installer packages (.msi files) at the time of application assignment or publication, not at the time of installation. The following procedure explains how to add the transform to application packages. With the exception of the ShellUI.MST file, transforms are not supported in Office 2007. For information about Office Setup, see Getting started with the 2007 Office system.

To add modification to application packages

1. Open Group Policy Software Installation.
2. In the console tree, right-click Software installation, point to New, and then click Package.
3. In the Open dialog box, click the Windows Installer package, and then click Open.
4. In the Deploy Software dialog box, click Advanced, and then click OK.
5. In the properties dialog box for the package, click the Modifications tab.
6. To add modifications, click Add. In the Open dialog box, browse to the transform file (.mst), and then click Open.
7. Click OK.

   Note:
   When you click OK, the package is assigned or published immediately. For more information about using Group Policy Software Installation, see Group Policy Software Installation on the Microsoft TechNet Web site.