[Casper] MS Office 2008 configuration

[Smith, William]

On 12/11/08 4:14 PM, "Miles Leacy" <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> wrote:

> I'm curious to see what customizations folks are using for their Office 2008
> deployments.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> What modifications are you using?  Does anyone run into the "do fonts" issue
> that was present in Office 2004?  If so, how do you stop it?

I have to admit that we need to plan for our Office 2008 migration
ourselves. We still have a dependency on VBA but I¹m pretty sure that could
be redone with AppleScript.

What¹s the ³do fonts² issue you¹re referring to? I prefer to install a full
application package and then use post-install scripts to customize for each
of our group¹s needs. Microsoft did a great thing by putting all their fonts
into /Library/Fonts/Microsoft for Office 2008. That makes manipulating their
font install very painless.

I¹ll be visiting with the MacBU folks at Macworld in January and hope to get
some insight from their Entourage developers for automating the upgrade
process. They should know the right hooks. If I learn anything then I¹ll be
sure to spread the wealth.

-- 

bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492
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