Rob- This does seem to be an issue for more than just you. Another list member was having the same issues. See this thread : http://www.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20678 Darren From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Mariani Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 4:35 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] GPO's and Office 2007 Hi Everyone. Well I recently got my 70 licenses of Office 2007 and was keen to build a test delpoyment. I found the Office Resource Kit on the Technet website and started reading. To my amasement AD GPO is not the prefered way to delpoy this package..... MS have moved away from traditional MSI and MST files for O2K7. The Office Customisation Tool (OCT) creates a MSP file but the use is not in the traditional sense of patching an admin install. There is a way to deploy O2k7 by GPO but bugger all configurable to say the most. The config.xml is a pain to get working has extreemly limited capabilites. My question to the group is, has anyone sucessfully deployed this package in testing or production via AD GPO and applied the msp customisations? Ohh and two more things... 1. The O2K7 install does not finish before the user logs in - and from what i have read if the first user to log in after the depoyment does not have local admin rights to the pc the install fails - i am yet to test this but i deploy apps with "Elevated privideges" for the GPO so this may not happen 2. I noticed that there were office ADM templates for GPO configurations. Would my best option be to install an uncustomised deployment and then use the ADM templates for config? Regards Rob....