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Everything I've presented to this point helps you deploy user settings for Office XP and sometimes other programs. If you want to manage settings, however, you must use Group Policy or system policies. Group Policy is a feature of Windows 2000 and Active Directory. System policies is a legacy policy-based management technology that's still available if you've not yet deployed Active Directory.
Chapter 6, "Using Registry-Based Policies," describes policies in detail. Part IV, "Appendices," describes many of the policies in Office XP and tells you where to find them in the registry. The Office XP Resource Kit provides policy templates (ADM files) that you can use with either Group Policy or system policies. It installs several ADM files in %SYSTEMROOT%\Inf, such as OFFICE10.ADM, which contains policy settings that are common to all Office XP programs.
Scenario | Method | Tool |
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Distribute a standard default Office XP configuration | Add an OPS file to a transform | Profile Wizard and Custom Installation Wizard (Customize Default Application Settings page) |
Configure a few options or override the OSP file's settings without rebuilding it | Add user settings to a transform | Custom Installation Wizard (Change Office User Settings page) |
Set default security levels and customize trusted sources list | Specify security settings in a transform | Custom Installation Wizard (Specify Office Security Settings page) |
Set migration and e-mail options for Outlook | Specify Outlook settings in a transform | Custom Installation Wizard (Outlook: Custom Default Settings page) |
Specify settings that are not captured in an OPS file | Add registry values to a transform | Custom Installation Wizard (Add/Remove Registry Entries page) |
Distribute a default Office XP configuration but store one or more OPS files separately from the MST file | Run Profile Wizard during Setup | Profile Wizard and Custom Installation Wizard (Add Installations and Run Programs page) |
Preserve users' custom settings from a previous version instead of specifying new default settings | Enable Setup to migrate ettings from a previous version of Office | Default behavior |
Set unique options for Office XP Multilingual User Interface Packs or other chained packages | Specify settings in the transform applied to the chained package | Custom Installation Wizard and Setup INI Customization Wizard |
Distribute a default Office XP configuration that overrides individual users' settings | Run Profile Wizard as a stand-alone tool after installing Office XP | Profile Wizard |
Modify user settings after installing Office XP | Distribute a CMW file after installing Office XP | Custom Maintenance Wizard |
Prevent users from modifying settings | Set policies | System Policy Editor or Windows 2000 Group Policy |
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