Office 2008 Mass Deployment

I may be posting this in the wrong area and I will apologize in advance. I work in a school district that has recently decided to upgrade ever single machine to Office 2008 and we have a deadline to have it done by the beginning of the next school year. Sitting there with and install disc and going to every machine and installing 2008 and running the updates is not going to allow it to be done in the allotted time. I have been googling and found a howto over at Mactopia that helped me create an install package with the updates incorporated already and it works awesome. Now the actual problem and question. The install package that I made does not delete Office 2004 nor does it put the icons in the Dock for Office 2008. Which is going to be required for the teachers and students. I need to figure out how to make the package that will allow me to delete Office 2004, install Office 2008 with all updates, and put the Office 2008 icons in the Dock. Then I would be able to push this package out over ARD this summer when no one is in the building and be able to make the deadline. Thanks in advance for any advice you can contribute

What software are you using to make the packages? If Packagemaker you should consider posting your question in the Developer forums, as it's more of a developer tool:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=164
Personally, for the uninstall of 2004, I'd just send a separate Unix command before pushing the package out to delete the Office 2004 folder.

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I'm wondering if anyone has any experience using CS3 (volume license) for mass deployment? We used to manually install on machines, but as the size of the organization has grown, this has become more and more inconvenient. This summer we're planning on a complete upgrade to all systems and during this process we're doing HD formatting and clean installations of all systems and software. To make this process more efficient (as all systems are set up the same way) we're now looking into using OS X 10.5 Server, NetInstall and a cloned system image for deployment to all machines.My question is, is there anything relating to CS3 that may cause issues with this process? Does CS3 installation bind itself to the hardware it was installed on? Since we are using a volume license, I don't have to worry about individual serial numbers and activating the system with Adobe, but again, I'm unsure if installations are somehow tied into the hardware they were installed on? Ideally, I'd install CS3 onto the "master" system and run all updates prior to making the final system image. Has anyone that's done this using CS3 provide any information that may help me out?
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Kristin.

kristin,
No one is withholding a reply from you because you're using CS3. It is just that no one who may know the answer has wandered by. The folks who help here are Adobe product users, like you.
>This summer we're planning on a complete upgrade to all systems and during this process we're doing HD formatting and clean installations of all systems and software.
My only point was that you will be spending a lot of time and effort on a setup that is centered around older, discontinued software. And my thinking is that if you are going to the time and expense of revamping your office, why not do it right and include CS4? If you install CS3 now, when you do decide to upgrade to CS4, you will be giving yourself a lot of extra work. From my point of view, the added software cost would be a good investment
during the current systems overhaul. Otherwise, it just isn't a "complete upgrade". You're installing '07 parts on the '09 Mercedes.
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Does Office 2008 works on Lion?

Does Office 2008 run on Lion?

If your using Mac's in a mission critical type environment or have third party hardware or software you must rely upon working correctly. It's advised to wait until all the bugs, driver updates, third party software updates and other issues are resolved before upgrading. This might take several months. Then if you do so, do one machine at a time and carefully test everything before full deployment.
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Purchaseand download Lion from the Mac App Store on any Lion compatible Macrunning Snow Leopard.
Right click on “Mac OS X Lion”     installer and choose the option to “Show Package Contents.”
Inside the Contents folder that     appears you will find a SharedSupport folder and inside the     SharedSupport folder you will find the “InstallESD.dmg.” This is     the Lion boot disc image we have all been waiting for.
Copy “InstallESD.dmg” to     another folder like the Desktop.
Launch Disk Utility and click the     burn button.
Select the copied “InstallESD.dmg” as the image to burn,     insert a standard sized 4.7 GB DVD, and wait for your new Lion Boot     Disc to come out toasty hot.
With this disc you can boot any Lion compatible Mac, and install10.7 just like you installed previous version of Mac OS X. You caneven use Disk Utility's Restore function to image your Lion boot discimage onto a external drive suitable for performing a clean installon a optical-drive-less MacBook Air, or Mac mini server.

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If I use office 2008, will it be a 100% compatible with PC's ?
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MS Office Pro 2013 Deployment through SCCM 2012 R2

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I have deployed MS Office Pro 2013 through SCCM 2012. But from Windows 7 Client Machines It's not Installing. Noticed following error in Software Center.
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I cannot open any Word document or even Powerpoints or anything related to Office 2008, which has been working fine for the last 2 years. I need help...

I installed an application called "You SendIt" because some audio files were sent to me and I had to access them through it. My Mac is running Windows and OS-X. I bought an version of Office 2008 separately. I tried to uninstall it, to get rid of all my downloads and also to reinstall Office 2008 but nothing works...
Whenever I try to open a Word file, for example, it says:
"The application Microsoft Word quit unexpectedly. Mac OS-X and other applications are not affected. Click relaunch to launch the application again. CLick Report to see more details or send a report to Apple"
Of course I have tried to reset and relaunch... But it does not work. I realized today I have the same problem with Powerpoint.
I have looked at Mac help forums... but no results...
So, if you or your friend had any idea on how to solve this, it would help me A LOT!!
Thank you in advance.
Stephanie

Hi Chris,
Well, I tried to delete the Caches and I threw all the .plist files related to microsoft in the trash -- athough I don't know if this is the way to delete files but I haven't found another yet....
From your other suggestions, it seems to me that you have the impression that I want to stop using Microsoft Office (it was 2007, I made a mistake) though... but this is not the case.
So... tell me if I misunderstood correctly or if I did anything wrong, or if you have anything else to suggest...
Thanks a lot anyways!
Stephanie

Slow Leopard Takes forever to open MS Office 2008

Over the last few weeks/months, I have noticed that it is taking minutes (NOT Seconds) to open MS Office Apps (Excel, Word, Entourage). This has now become very, very annoying and wondering if there is something I can do to fix this.
Or do I wait for Snow Leopard to replace Slow Leopard.
Please help.

Greetings,
It should not take minutes, but it will take a few seconds, to load. I have used Office 2004, and 2008 - they both work fine for me, and always have. I'd say that Office 2008 loads up Excel in about 15 seconds, and that''s with email up, and maybe one browser instance. I just did it, and it was 17 seconds to load Excel and be ready to enter data.
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? about Office 2008...didn't know where else to get help

Microsoft was absolutely no help with this issue I have been dealing with.
I have Office 2008 and was having difficulty with it freezing up, etc. I ran the autoupdate program from Word and it says that I need to install Autoupdate 2.1.1. I can't tell you how many times I have tried to install it! I have downloaded it from their website and also from Word and it is as if I have never installed it. In the meantime, I can't install any of the regular Office 12.1.xxxx updates. Are the two tied together? How can I fix this? Thanks for your help!!!
Why do I keep going back to MS???

clemsonbaseball wrote:
Microsoft was absolutely no help with this issue I have been dealing with.
Sadly they rarely are.
Have you considered switching to a real Office Suite like OpenOffice or NeoOffice, either of which are at least 99.99% MSOffice compatible, are free and never have any problems.
I have Office 2008 and was having difficulty with it freezing up, etc.
Yes, that's MSOffice alright.
Why do I keep going back to MS???
I don't know. As I noted, there are far superior options available.
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MS Office 2008 Update: fixes some print issues?

I noticed the first update for Office 2008 is out, and one "fix" they list for Word is:
Blank pages are no longer printed when you print to a high resolution printer. This update fixes an issue in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that causes blank pages to print when you print to a high resolution printer.
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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2008?tab=Threads
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MS office 2008 now crashing when we try to print. No changes to computer; same old software. New printer 9 months ago, no trouble printing until last month. Other programs (adobe, mac) print fine. What can I try?

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Office 2008 for Mac: Any advice on where to get it cheaper for a student?

I am about to go into my Master's Degree at Dallas Theological Seminary and I need to get Office 2008 for Mac. The Apple store recommended me get it at my school but my school's bookstore does not have it and journeyed.com doesn't support DTS. Does anyone know how or where I can get this program for less than $100 with a student discount? I really need to know.

Remember... Google is your friend.
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Office-2008-Home-Student/dp/B000X86ZAS/ref=pdbbs_sr1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1217300568&sr=8-1
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Office 2008 very slow in iBook

Hi All,
I recently installed Microsoft Office 2008 in my iBook, but the applications run pretty slow (only Office), specially PowerPoint. I had Office 2004 and it worked fine. Any suggestions on how to improve the speed of those applications? Getting a new RAM memory perhaps? I installed a 1 GB Ram memory one year ago.
The details of my Mac are:
Machine Model: PowerBook6,5
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.1)
CPU Speed: 1.33 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1.25 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Thanks in advance!
lbm2

Office 2008 is slow even on the newer machines. More memory will help, but when you say slow, do you mean slow at just working, or slow to load? If slow to load, do a search in all of the forums. This has been reported elsewhere, and it is due to the fonts on the system. By doing maintenance on the system fonts (described in the other threads), it will speed up the loading. If it's slow at just working, memory will help, but not too much.

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Office 2008 will work with Mountain Lion, but it isn't retina compatible and would probably be too much strain on the eyes to work with. Purchase Office 2011 or Pages. LibreOffice is free and may be retina compatible, but I personally have never used it.
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Can I do a "clean install" of Microsoft Office 2008 on Lion 10.7.4?

I've got a macbook pro (early 2011) and want to install Microsoft Office. I'd rather pay less and just get Office 2008 instead of 2011, but I want to make sure that I'll be able to install it without any problems. I haven't installed any versions of microsoft office.

Kappy wrote:
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Now, my understanding from way back when is that some Office 2008 discs did indeed come with a PPC-only installer. Later on it was replaced with a UB installer. This came originally from MS as I seem to remember.
I'm geniunely surprised by that, I have ancient copies of 2008 (we used to install a lot of them) and they are all Universal, even Microsoft's technotes make no mention of a PPC installer (and these are the notes specific to Lion compatibility) so thanks for the info, now I will have to go through our collection of Office 2008 media and find one.
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