Word Viewer 2007 distribution

[Ken Montgomery]

Hi Everyone,

On our corporate network they have moved our Policies to Word 2007, so now
every machine needs to have the Word 2007 viewer installed. I see the .exe
file to accomplish this but want to distribute through group policy. The
Powerpoint viewer has an option to extract the .msi and .cab files to allow
this to happen, but the word 2007 viewer does not... has anyone been able to
extract the .msi files so group policy distribution can be done?

Thanks,
Ken

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ken,

In this case I'm assuming your first mention of 'Policies' is referring to company documents rather than Group Policies (GPO) that
you mention later?

The Word viewer 2007 is basically the Word 2003 viewer with the compatibility pack included.

If you right click on the downloaded Viewer and right click to open the archive in Windows compressed file viewer or WinZip, or
similar you'll see an MSI file and a CAB file among other items, Note the file dates in the .cab file.

If you have an earlier version of Word (2000, XP/2002 or 2003) or the prior version Word 2003 viewer you can also choose to deploy
the Office 2007 compatibility pack to be able to open the .___X documents in either the viewer or the older version app. The .exe
for the Compatibility pack has an extractable .MSI
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952273
(From that page there is a link to the compatibility pack download page. From that download page is a link to the Group Policy
(.ADM) templates for the compatibility pack settings).

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Hi Everyone,

On our corporate network they have moved our Policies to Word 2007, so now
every machine needs to have the Word 2007 viewer installed. I see the .exe
file to accomplish this but want to distribute through group policy. The
Powerpoint viewer has an option to extract the .msi and .cab files to allow
this to happen, but the word 2007 viewer does not... has anyone been able to
extract the .msi files so group policy distribution can be done?

Thanks,
Ken>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Ken Montgomery]

Thanks Bob, actually all policy mentions were for GPO, but I'll take a look
at doing that with WinZip or other to see inside the .exe file.