[THIN] Re: Which version of Office??

We are using XP in our schools and it works fine.  I agree with Ron with
regard to the users on that one.  We fight a constant battle to get them to
organize something, anything in folders rather than the never ending file
list.  Granted we have more control than most places so we are in the
process of going to a mandatory filing system.

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From: Ron Oglesby [mailto:roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:00 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Which version of Office??



I have always found Office XP to work just fine. 2000 still had some issues
on TS thought not as many (BY FAR) as 97!!.

 

Anyway, this is generally a time I let the user's feel the pain. I would go
XP or 2003. And let the enumeration problem MAKE them put some directories
in there. I mean if the problem was only not there in Office 97 would you
consider back reving to that?

 

Ron Oglesby

Senior Technical Architect

 

RapidApp

Office 312.372.7188

Mobile 815.325.7618

email roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Slayden [mailto:rslayden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:14 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Which version of Office??

 

Dudes (and Dudettes), 

We are deploying a new MFXP farm on Windows 2003 and MFXP1.0/FR3-SP3 (just a
few servers) and are about to start installing apps. What is the general
consensus regarding Office version to deploy? We need Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, and Outlook (also Acrobat) and we were thinking Office XP, but a
recent desktop deployment revealed an issue with XP that makes me
re-consider. One of our local users accesses a network share with over 1000
files (please, don't get me started!! <g>) and when you browse in Excel, it
takes several minutes to display the file list to select a file to open.
This was replicated on Office 2003. However, this was resolved by
"downgrading" this user to Office 2000, which does not exhibit the long file
list enumeration time.

Any information, pros, and cons from the group regarding which version to
deploy will be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks!! 

Rob Slayden 
24 Hour Fitness, Inc.

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