[Casper] MS Office 2008 configuration

[Postman, Hillary]

We just removed the Do Fonts folder on our images, or manually tossed it if
need be. We never had any blowback from just simply removing it on a few
thousand computers.


On 12/12/08 8:15 AM, "Miles Leacy" <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> wrote:

> "Do Fonts" was software that would scan your fonts when launching an Office
> 2004 application.  If any of the Microsoft-installed fonts were missing, Do
> Fonts would replace them.  It's akin to an Acrobat-self repair, and just as
> much of a problem if you're trying to manage fonts.
> 
> There were several ways to disable it, all of which (at least the ones I knew
> about) were inelegant, dirty hacks.
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> 2008/12/12 Smith, William <william.smith at merrillcorp.com>
>> On 12/11/08 4:14 PM, "Miles Leacy" <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com
>> <http://miles.leacy@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 I'm pretty sure that could be redone
>> with AppleScript.
>> 
>> What's the "do fonts" issue you're referring to? I prefer to install a full
>> application package and then use post-install scripts to customize for each
>> of our group's 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.
>> 
>> I'll 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 I'll be
>> sure to spread the wealth.



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