Reference web sites

• Microsoft's Office 97 Resource Kit

Contains documentation for administration of Office 97
• Customizing Client Installs

Contains useful info on how to modify install files for quite install
• Setup command line options and info file formats
• Network Installation Wizard

Need this to modify setup parameter files. Do not edit these text files directly.
• Customizing and Optimizing Office including systemwide policy settings
• Security requirements (or lack thereof) for Office 97 :-(

Security, who needs security?
• Office 97 SR1
• Office SR1 Install Instructions

Answers to Network Installation Wizard

• Primary Location:

\Microsoft Office
• Documents Folder:

F:\
(This is user's home directory on server)
• Shared Files:

Local Hard Drive
• Do not save installation log
• Installation Type: Custom
• Components:
• Select all Excel options
• Select all Word options
• Select all PowerPoint options
• Select all Access options
• Unselect Outlook
• Select HTML authoring
• Select everything else except Office shortcut bar

(Because *I* hate it! :)
• Unselect Getting Results Book
• Set to YES all Yes/No questions
• Program Manager Items: (probably not used at all though)
• Kill Bookshelf Basics
• Kill Genigraphics items
• Kill Find Fast
• Kill Outlook
• Start Menu and Desktop Items
• Kill Office Shortcut Bar in startup
• Kill Office Startup in startup
• Kill Outlook everywhere
• Kill Find Fast in startup

(No need for this to be banging the net drives all the time)
• Kill Setup for Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Change Office Toolbar program icon so it goes into Programs folder. If they really want the thing, let 'em start it manually! :)
• Kill Bookshelf Basics
• Subfolder: CUSTOM
• Add Files: none
• Add Registry Entries: none
• Select Quiet Mode: Level 5 (no exit, no restart)
• Save Changes: Take defaults

(Note, upper case responses OK here?)

Setup command line

Installing Office 97

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common Desktop"="C:\\WINNT\\Profiles\\All Users\\Desktop"
"Common Start Menu"="C:\\WINNT\\Profiles\\All Users\\Start Menu"
"Common Programs"="C:\\WINNT\\Profiles\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programs"
"Common Startup"="C:\\WINNT\\Profiles\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
"Common Desktop"=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,50,72,6f,66,69,\
  6c,65,73,5c,41,6c,6c,20,55,73,65,72,73,5c,44,65,73,6b,74,6f,70,00
"Common Start Menu"=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,50,72,6f,66,\
  69,6c,65,73,5c,41,6c,6c,20,55,73,65,72,73,5c,53,74,61,72,74,20,4d,65,6e,75,\
  00
"Common Programs"=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,50,72,6f,66,69,\
  6c,65,73,5c,41,6c,6c,20,55,73,65,72,73,5c,53,74,61,72,74,20,4d,65,6e,75,5c,\
  50,72,6f,67,72,61,6d,73,00
"Common Startup"=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,50,72,6f,66,69,\
  6c,65,73,5c,41,6c,6c,20,55,73,65,72,73,5c,53,74,61,72,74,20,4d,65,6e,75,5c,\
  50,72,6f,67,72,61,6d,73,5c,53,74,61,72,74,75,70,00
"Personal"="C:\\WINNT\\Personal"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"SendTo"="C:\\WINNT\\Profiles\\Administrator\\SendTo"
"Recent"="C:\\WINNT\\Profiles\\Administrator\\Recent"
"Desktop"="C:\\WINNT\\Profiles\\Administrator\\Desktop"
"Programs"="C:\\WINNT\\Profiles\\Administrator\\Start Menu\\Programs"
"Start Menu"="C:\\WINNT\\Profiles\\Administrator\\Start Menu"
"Startup"="C:\\WINNT\\Profiles\\Administrator\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup"

Policies

To get the web toolbar and "Microsoft on the Web" menu entries to work with Netscape, you need to define a Start Page and Search Page in the policy for Internet Explorer. Arrggh....

Ensure the personal template directory is set to a user directory, otherwise it defaults to the office program directory. The normal.dot file also gets written here.

Permissions

Paul Leach, from Microsoft, in a posting to NTBugTraq on 25jul97, said that he has had success setting %systemroot% and %systemroot%\system32 to RX for non-admins. Worth a try. The article talked about a service release of office 97. Need to look for that. Of course, I just tried to contact www.microsoft.com and as usual, it's down... :-(

Additionally, I found the following permissions need to be set:

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WZMAIN80.MDE

Change : If R/O, Access wizards don't work.
• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WZDAT80.MDT

Change : If R/O, Access Report wizards don't work.
• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\WZTOOL80.MDE

Change : If R/O, Access "build" wizards don't work.

SR2 Notes

• Requires at least SP2 be installed before it will run. Let's hope it doesn't require a reboot after the install as well. :-(
  • Looks like editing line 110 and removing the reference to line 111 in the custom\custom.stf file will force the check to be bypassed.