[THIN] Re: Which version of Office??

office 2000 good for us.....

>>> Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 31/10/03 09:46:50 >>>
Personally, I've been happy with deploying Office 2000 - there are
policy templates installable to GPOs, and have had experience
scripting
for earlier versions of Office. And to be fair, my user audience
probably doesn't use full functionality of any of the Office products
(I
would guess, largely, a common occurrence), so rather hard to justify
any greater need for later versions.
 
Neil

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Rob Slayden [mailto:rslayden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
        Sent: 30 October 2003 19:14
        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. 

         


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