[Casper] MS Office 2008 configuration

[Miles Leacy]

Well, I guess that'll do it.  :)
I recall using a hack to the office apps that would keep them from calling
do fonts.  But MS got smart in 2008 apparently.

Another issue I recall for 2004 was for the PDF component that Acrobat
insisted on inserting into Office apps and which resulted in an annoying
1-button toolbar appearing and throwing off the Office app's UI.  Is this
still happening for the current Acrobat & Office versions?  If you removed
that item, Acrobat would self-repair it.  My solution was to leave it in
place and change its permissions to 000 so that it couldn't be launched.

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2008/12/12 Postman, Hillary <HPOSTMAN at capousd.org>

>  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>
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> 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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