Install Office 2003 wiht GPO

[Edy]

Dear all,

I'm testing a rollout for Office 2003 using Software Installation with
GPO for a pilot group. I made a transform with the custom installation
wizard from the ork. I selected migrate users settings

However I discovered that the normal.dot is replaced with a new one
instead of upgrading which overwrites users settings such as autotext.

I've read some posts here and it should retain the normal.dot. My
question did I something wrong by defining the transform?

Regards
Edy

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Edy,

Normal.dot is not part of the Office CD.
It's a file Word creates from its internal
program code on first need (generally first use)
of Word by each user.

You can add files to the transform, including
global (.dot) template files as part of the deployment.

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Dear all,

I'm testing a rollout for Office 2003 using Software Installation with
GPO for a pilot group. I made a transform with the custom installation
wizard from the ork. I selected migrate users settings

However I discovered that the normal.dot is replaced with a new one
instead of upgrading which overwrites users settings such as autotext.

I've read some posts here and it should retain the normal.dot. My
question did I something wrong by defining the transform?

Regards
Edy >>

 

[Edy]

Bob,

You misunderstood me.

I'm asking why Word overwrite the normal.dot when upgrading from Office
XP to 2003. I don't want to create it using the transform.

Regards
Edy