Nononono I'm not installing from a CD... When we add a new computer model to the network, an admin logs on and installs Windows, Novell Utilities, helper apps, etc. Office is actually installed over the network during that time, but it's not done with Active Directory. Drew >>> douglas.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/15/04 03:39PM >>> I disagree. You can still install from a Admin Share with a Transforms File and it runs faster over the network than from a CD. To each his/her own. Doug -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Shriner [mailto:aShriner@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 1:48 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: When Admin Rights Attack!? That would be nice, but unfortunately, I'm not yet running AD. I know how to do everything you mentioned, it's just easier to do it the old way, when I'm not able to use AD. Drew >>> douglas.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/15/04 02:35PM >>> I would suggest using an administrative share to install office from. Microsoft has a Office Resource Kit (free download) with a Custom Installation Wizard that can create a Transforms file that you can use with the Setup.exe file to install office. You can use this Transforms file to create default settings for file location (users H:\ drive), etc. You can then use AD to install Office with a particular Transform for a particular user. If you have installed office on a Terminal server you probably used the Office Resource Kit to create a Transforms file for the Office installation. Makes life easier. I add a computer to AD and the Firewall client, Office (correct version and settings), Anti-virus, etc are all installed automatically. Douglas Jensen Douglas.Jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Voice (952) 402-9821 Fax (952) 402-9815 Network Administrator Scott Carver Dakota CAP Agency, Inc. 712 Canterbury Road Shakopee, MN 55379 www.capagency.org -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Shriner [mailto:aShriner@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:24 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: When Admin Rights Attack!? We install Office as administrator, and then copy that office profile over to the Default Users profile, and grant everyone read access to it. The first time they launch log in, it creates their Office profile - which works flawlessly. If I don't copy the Office profile over to the Default Users profile and mark it as readable by everyone, then the user gets installation failure errors every time they try to launch office... I have no idea what KB# it is, but it was a known problem at the time we were experiencing it. We have had many problems with users not being able to do different things in Office... the problems were only with a few specific functions, though, and we rarely encountered those problems. I looked them up in the KB also, and it said that the users needed to be members of the admin group. That wasn't spellcheck though, that was something advanced in Word that few people ever needed... and what it was escapes me right now. For the users that needed to have Word run as an admin user, I created an admin user, and used the utility "CPAU" (google it) to launch the Word process as an admin, while keeping the current user's permission at whatever level it was at originally. Drew >>> douglas.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/15/04 12:14PM >>> None of our users have more than normal user permissions and they can all access spell check and other normal Word and Office user functions. Bill would not have set Office up to eliminate access to these features for a normal business setup. We install Office on the computer as Administrator and then when the user logs on and starts Office, Word and all the others configure a Profile for that user. We also use a Administrative Install for most of our computers but even when I installed Office directly from a CD, everything worked as one would expect it to work. Douglas Jensen Douglas.Jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Voice (952) 402-9821 Fax (952) 402-9815 Network Administrator Scott Carver Dakota CAP Agency, Inc. 712 Canterbury Road Shakopee, MN 55379 www.capagency.org -----Original Message----- From: Jim Kenzig http://thin.net [mailto:jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:09 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: When Admin Rights Attack!? You have to add the user to local machines power users group at least or set specific permissions on the office directory so that they can run them. JK -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Martin, Eddie Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:06 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] When Admin Rights Attack!? Situation: We take local admin rights to pc away from users so they cannot make harmful changes to workstations. Problem: Once local admin rights to the pc are taken away Microsoft Word seems to take away the ability to spell check. Any ideas on how to fix, or is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks for your help in advance, Eddie Martin ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor StressedPuppy.com Games Feeling stressed out? 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