Office 2003 Deployment

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Office 2003 Deployment

• NLIT 2007
• June 11 2007
• Kevin Hall
• Technologist TechDev

Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by
Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin
Company,for the United States Department of
Energys National Nuclear Security
Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
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Overview

• Engaging Management
• Communities of Interest
• Communication
• Initial Release
• Deployment
• Change Management
• Security
• Looking Ahead

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Engaging Management

• Meeting Content
• Establishing Roles and Responsibilities
• Setting Timelines
• Exchange Upgrade
• Defining Communities of interest

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Communities of Interest

• Training
• OAA \ ASA
• Road Shows for Techs

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Communication

• http//www-irn.sandia.gov/office2003/
• More Road Shows
• OWA
• Calendar features
• MAC Office 2004

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Initial Release

• Six Months of Beta Test
• Release to production File servers
• Never reinstall over the top!
• One way install we remove all previous versions
  of Office
• The only Office package in the future.
• E-mail Profiles
• Offline folders
• Multiple Mailboxes
• Permissions
• Other office applications
• Access
• Visio etc

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Deployment

• SMS Drops
• Defining Criteria
• 96 Success Rate 18000 installs SRN
• Numbers dropped to 93 at last 500 users
• Over 34000 served across all Partitions

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Change Management

• SMS Dynamic Queries
• SP2
• WSUS
• To IM or Not to IM

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Security

• MSI installers
• Administrative install
• Standalone and Access
• Terminal Server
• Non Writeable Diskless

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Looking Ahead

• IM installed as Office Component
• File Format Converters
• Freddie XML to ODF
• Office 2007
• Other office applications
• Access
• Visio etc
• Mac Office
• VISTA \ Office 2007 suite
• Office 2007 install design