[windows2000] Re: When Admin Rights Attack!?

  • From: "Jensen, Douglas" <douglas.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:35:12 -0500

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
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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

 

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