If you are one of the many IT administrators I’ve talked to that doesn’t like how Microsoft essentially broke Group Policy Software Installation-based deployment of Office when they released Office 2007, here’s how you can provide feedback to Microsoft. I just noticed a blog posting from someone on the Office Resource Kit team with the title, "Deploying Office 2007 with GPSI is not for the faint of heart ". For someone from the Office Resource Kit team to use that kind of title is what I would call irony. I encourage everyone that finds what they did with Office deployment in the latest version just plain non-responsive to customer needs, to submit a comment to that blog posting. I think if they knew how many people were adversely affected by this decision, they would perhaps get around to providing some better deployment solutions than recommending yet another deployment product for folks to install!
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Group Policy, Office 2007, GPSI
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About the Author:
Darren Mar-Elia is CTO & Founder of SDM Software, Inc. Darren has over 25 years of IT and Software experience in the Microsoft technology area, including serving as a Director in Infrastructure at Charles Schwab, CTO of Windows Management Solutions at Quest Software, and Sr. Director of Product Engineering at DesktopStandard. He has been a Microsoft MVP in Group Policy technology for the last 6 years and has written and spoken on Active Directory, Group Policy and PowerShell topics frequently over the years. He maintains the popular Group Policy resource web site at www.gpoguy.com and has been a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine since 1997. He has written and contributed to twelve books on Windows. Darren also speaks frequently at conferences on Windows infrastructure topics.