Word 2000 terminal server profiles & user templates/workgroup templates

[John]

The original install of office 2000/word 2000 had set the file location
for user templates to g:\templates.

This is the same file location as workgroup templates which is a read
only location.

The workgroup templates location also contains a normal.dot file which
is used by all users as their global template.

Users now can not make changes to the global template file, normal.dot.

I want to change the location of the user templates path, and thus the
path to the normal.dot file so that it is either under their user
profile, e.g. %userprofile%\application data\microsoft\templates\, or in
their home drive. After changing this path I also need to place a
normal.dot file in this location and stop word using the normal.dot file
which is in the workgroup template location, which I would guess can be
achieved by just deleting the normal.dot file that is in the workgroup
template location.

We have 8 terminal servers in 3 locations and I was wondering what the
best way would be to do this so that all new terminal server profiles
are set up correctly.

I have tested a logon script for existing users that works, which
includes applying a .reg file and manually copying a normal.dot file
into the new user templates location, but I was wondering what the best
way would be enable all new terminal server profiles to contain the
correct settings without having to resort to a login script.

 

[Matthew Harris [MVP]]

Check out the Office Resource Kit. It has group policy
templates that you can use to modify settings like these.
Just apply the settings to all your terminal servers (and
to those users) and presto, all the changes are made
seamlessly.

-M

-----Original Message-----
The original install of office 2000/word 2000 had set the file location
for user templates to g:\templates.

This is the same file location as workgroup templates which is a read
only location.

The workgroup templates location also contains a normal.dot file which
is used by all users as their global template.

Users now can not make changes to the global template file, normal.dot.

I want to change the location of the user templates path, and thus the
path to the normal.dot file so that it is either under their user
profile, e.g. %userprofile%\application

data\microsoft\templates\, or in