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Configure Office 2010 with the Office Customization Tool

Upgrading khổng lồ Office 2010 can be a big khuyến mãi. The OCT can help ease the process with customized installations.

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Everybody works a bit differently. A quichồng look at how each employee has his or her computer configured will support that assertion. Moving from the familiar to lớn the new can be somewhat traumatic, so if you"re eyeing a rollout of Office 2010, you should consider using the Microsoft Office Customization Tool (OCT). This không tính tiền utility helps you create và configure personalized Office installations you can deploy to your users.

The OCT is included with Office 2010, but only volume-licensed editions, like Professional Plus and Enterprise. It doesn"t come with the retail versions. You can easily tell if your copy of Office qualifies by checking the installation disk or source folders. If you see a thư mục named Admin, then you"ve sầu got a volume-license edition và can proceed with the OCT thiết lập.

OCT khổng lồ the RescueMicrosoft first introduced the OCT with Office 2007. It replaced the Custom Installation Wizard, which was the customization tool for previous editions of Office. The OCT generates an MSP--a Windows Installer Patch file--that holds all of the options and settings that you specify.

Before running the OCT, you need to lớn phối up a network installation point for Office. Create a source folder for Office on a network tóm tắt from which you typically deploy software (for example: \servershareoffice2010). Then copy the Office folders and files lớn that new folder.

To run OCT, open a comm& prompt lớn the new thư mục & type the command: thiết đặt.exe cộ /admin. The Office Customization Tool will launch & ask you to lớn create a new setup customization tệp tin or open an existing one. Choose to create a new one. From there, the tool will lead you screen by screen through a series of steps in which you select the various options for your Office install.

OCT breaks down the configuration into lớn four distinct categories: Setup, Features, Additional Content, và Outlook. Setup offers the following subcategories:

Install location and organization name--Here you specify the destination thư mục for Office 2010 on your client PCs (the mặc định is Program FilesMicrosoft Office). You can also br& the installation with the name of your organization, which will appear in the About text box & on the banner pages of your Office programs. Additional Network Sources--This lets you copy your Office 2010 installation khổng lồ a backup location on your network & deploy it from there if the original location is unavailable. Licensing and User Interface--Here you can enter the hàng hóa key và choose the text box or dialog box to lớn display to lớn your users during the installation. Remove sầu previous installations--This lets you remove sầu all prior versions of Office or only specific applications. Add installations và run programs--This option lets you piggybachồng other installations along with Office. Office security settings--Here you can phối the security levels for macros, templates, & Office add-ins. Modify Setup properties--This lets you manually add certain properties and their values khổng lồ the install. Here you can configure if and how the Office 2010 thiết đặt reboots the PC after it"s done.

Under Features, you"ll find the following subcategories:

Modify user settings--Here you can specify the different user options for each Office application to control features like Proofing tools, the Ribbon, và the default file format (see Fig. 1). Set feature installation states--This lets you determine which features to lớn install for each application.

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Figure 1. The Office Customization Tool lets you create own your personalized Office installation. (Cliông xã image khổng lồ view larger version.)

Additional Content offers the following subcategories:

Add files--Here you choose any files to place on your client PCs along with the Office installation. Remove files--Here you specify files khổng lồ remove. Add registry entries--Here you name any registry settings to lớn add. Remove sầu registry entries--Here you name any registry settings to lớn remove. Configure shortcuts--This lets you decide which shortcuts lớn install, what khổng lồ name them, & where they"ll be installed.

Finally, the Outlook category offers the following subcategories:

Outlook profile--Here you choose whether you want lớn use the existing Outlook profile, modify it, or create a new one. Add accounts--Here you specify which accounts to add if you chose the option lớn create a new profile. You can also mix up more than one Outlook protệp tin. Export settings--This lets you export the user"s existing Outlook tài khoản khổng lồ an Outlook protệp tin tệp tin, called a PRF tệp tin. This is handy if you wish to lớn save sầu the user"s profile to capture specific settings not found in the OCT khổng lồ use for additional customizations. Specify Send/Receive groups--Here you choose which accounts or groups are included when the user clicks on the Send/Receive sầu button.

After you"ve customized the settings for each category, clichồng on File | Save sầu khổng lồ save sầu your settings as an MSPhường tệp tin. Then store it in the Updates subthư mục of your Office 2010 folder on the network installation point.

If you need khổng lồ tweak your settings before deployment, you can open the OCT using the setup.exe/admin commvà and point it to lớn your existing MSPhường. tệp tin. You can also create more than one installation of Office using the OCT & simply import the settings from one to the other. This can be useful if you need khổng lồ create two different, but similar, installations.

After you"ve created your first MSPhường, open OCT & choose the option lớn create a new customization file. Click on File | Import and select your existing MSP. You can now tweak any settings và save your customizations as a new MSPhường tệp tin.

After you"ve sầu tested the installation from your MSP. file, you can deploy your customized copy of Office 2010 using whatever deployment tool you normally use. You don"t need to point khổng lồ the MSP. file specifically. The Office cài đặt will look for any patch files in the Update folder và apply those during the installation.

About the Author

Writer, IT consultant & software trainer Lance Whitney has spent countless hours tweaking Windows workstations and servers. Originally a journamenu, he took a blind leap into lớn the IT world in the early "90s.