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Office 2007 deployment -- experience from the SuperLab

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22 March 2009 - 3:52pm
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One of the outputs from my week in the SuperLab in January ( see here for background ) is a guide to deploying Office 2007 using ZENworks Configuration Management.

I've created a slide deck containing how Office 2007 was deployed and attached it to this post. Note that this is draft and the methodology will most likely require changes for your environment.

Please post back any comments or issues that you run into.

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Don't you end up with twice as much data on the PC?

Submitted by kjhurni on 25 March 2009 - 4:52pm.

If you cache with ZEN or ZCM, doesn't the Office 2007 content (ie, the 500+ MB) live in the ZEN/ZCM Cache?

And then when you launch the install from there, Office will create another localinstallcache on the workstation, thus leaving you with basically two copies of the 500+ MB of data?

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Re: Don't you end up with twice as much data on the PC?

Submitted by blartfast on 26 March 2009 - 9:52am.

This method takes advantage of bundles remaining in the local cache for a defined period to allow you to distribute over a period of time, before commencing with the installation. When time period for the bundle has expired, ZCM agent will delete it. This gives 500Mb+ back to Windows.

You're correct in saying that Office 2007 does leave a copy of the install files behind. This happens if there is > 2Gb free disk space. I believe that you can stop Office doing this if needed.

Jon

Thanks!

Submitted by kjhurni on 26 March 2009 - 11:18am.

Thanks Jon.

Yes, ZCM is much better at deleting the cached content compared to ZEN 7 (IMO).

Thanks for all the hard work and the EXCELLENT documentation and explanation with ZCM.

That's an awesome job you did!

thanks

Submitted by uuuttt321 on 27 March 2009 - 12:12pm.

I'll definitely have to take a look. I'm getting ready to go through a big Office 2007 deployment at my company.

Hopefully I can avoid some surprises.

Rick
Sys Admin and Consultant:

Thanks!

Submitted by lowcarb on 17 April 2009 - 5:16am.

Thanks Jon alot,
This will certainly help me through my office deployment. I will notify you if I face any problems.
Thanks

thanks a lot Jon!!!

Submitted by River7 on 30 April 2009 - 3:10am.

This really will help me get some grounds on this new installment at our office. Just excellent!!

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