Group and System Policy

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.

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When to Use What

Scenario

Method

Tool

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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Microsoft Windows XP Registry Guide
Microsoft Windows XP Registry Guide (Bpg-Other)
ISBN: 0735617880
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 185

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