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. *********************************************** This e-mail and its attachments are confidential and are intended for the above named recipient only. If this has come to you in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from your system. You must take no action based on this, nor must you copy or disclose it or any part of its contents to any person or organisation. Statements and opinions contained in this email may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communications may be monitored. The registered office of Littlewoods Limited and its subsidiaries is 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB. Registered number of Littlewoods Limited is 262152. ************************************************