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If you do an admin install to the server, you then do an install from that
location on each workstation. You choose custom install and the different applications have an option to "Run from the network" It will be SLOW though... Dirk-Thomas "Sarah Tanembaum" wrote in message ... "KevinK" wrote in message ... Technically it can be installed and run from the server, and would save the problem of updating all 10 PCs. How? Does MS supply a setup script for workstation to run office from network-mounted-disk? But as Chris mentioned, it would use huge amounts of the network. This is not an issues for us. We have ample bandwidth to spare. You can copy the CDs to the server and install to each workstation from there. This does not make any sense. Why can I just use them from network disk(attached to each workstation), and execute the apps from there? This is time consuming and it just plain old technology. The only thing I can think of is if MS is collaborating with: 1. Disk vendors -- so we need to buy a lots of disk space to store the same executable programs 2. Consultant -- more billable time(yeah.) But seriously, why don't they(MS) make our lives(SysAdmin) a bit easier? Once installed, don't forget "Office Update" as opposed to "Windows Update" -----Original Message----- Is it possible to run office from a server? We just purchased 10 brand new PC with Windows XP Pro Pre-installed, an a server with ample of memory and disk space. We also purchase a 15-user license of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Instead of installing MS Office 2003 on all the workstation, is there a way to run Office from a server? I know of the terminal services/citrix way but that is out of the question as it will add cost per client. Thanks . |
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Please do yourself a favor and look at the Office Resource Kit and the
Windows 2003 (or whatever version of Windows you have) Terminal Services white papers. What you are asking has been answered many times here - if it is not the answer you like, then look for a different vendor/solution. We have all told you what is and is not possible, the problems inherent in trying to meet your requests, and have basically given up providing answers that you do not want to hear. Office REQUIRES specific files to be installed locally in order to run. If you want a pure server solution, it will not work. -- Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Sarah Tanembaum asked: | Why not possible? | | Thanks. | | "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" | wrote in message | ... || No, you can either run Office from a TS/Citrix environment or you can || install it locally. You can create an admin installation point on || the server and have the clients load office via a logon script when || they first start Windows. But you cannot run it from a plain server. || || -- || Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] || || Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to || the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my || personal account will be deleted without reading. || || After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Sarah || Tanembaum asked: || ||| Is it possible to run office from a server? ||| ||| We just purchased 10 brand new PC with Windows XP Pro Pre-installed, ||| an a server with ample of memory and disk space. ||| ||| We also purchase a 15-user license of Microsoft Office 2003 ||| Professional. ||| ||| Instead of installing MS Office 2003 on all the workstation, is ||| there ||| a way to run Office from a server? ||| ||| I know of the terminal services/citrix way but that is out of the ||| question as it will add cost per client. ||| ||| Thanks |
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Hallelujah!
-- Kelley aka catwalker IT Professional, MCP "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message ... Please do yourself a favor and look at the Office Resource Kit and the Windows 2003 (or whatever version of Windows you have) Terminal Services white papers. What you are asking has been answered many times here - if it is not the answer you like, then look for a different vendor/solution. We have all told you what is and is not possible, the problems inherent in trying to meet your requests, and have basically given up providing answers that you do not want to hear. Office REQUIRES specific files to be installed locally in order to run. If you want a pure server solution, it will not work. -- Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Sarah Tanembaum asked: | Why not possible? | | Thanks. | | "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" | wrote in message | ... || No, you can either run Office from a TS/Citrix environment or you can || install it locally. You can create an admin installation point on || the server and have the clients load office via a logon script when || they first start Windows. But you cannot run it from a plain server. || || -- || Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] || || Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to || the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my || personal account will be deleted without reading. || || After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Sarah || Tanembaum asked: || ||| Is it possible to run office from a server? ||| ||| We just purchased 10 brand new PC with Windows XP Pro Pre-installed, ||| an a server with ample of memory and disk space. ||| ||| We also purchase a 15-user license of Microsoft Office 2003 ||| Professional. ||| ||| Instead of installing MS Office 2003 on all the workstation, is ||| there ||| a way to run Office from a server? ||| ||| I know of the terminal services/citrix way but that is out of the ||| question as it will add cost per client. ||| ||| Thanks |
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Sarah,
I might jump in here for a second. First of all, the idea of a Terminal Server is generally a really good idea. I have been using Terminal Server for the last 15 months or so and it is generally a great thing. As Kevin mentioned, you can no longer install Terminal Server in Application Mode ( err, that is the WIN2000 terminology.... ) on the SBS2003 Server itself. There are some very good reasons for this. You would need a second server that would be the Terminal Server. On SBS2000 you can indeed do this - but again, not generally a good idea to run Terminal Server in Application Mode on a Domain Controller.... However, since you have powerful workstations, you have a really good point / question as to why do you would want to turn them into thin clients. I would probably not want to do that! Du hast schon das Geld ausgegeben! Secondly, you can indeed make an Administrative Installation of Office 2003 on your Server and install that application on each workstation from that Admin Installation. The advantages of doing this are 1) you have a common, accessible installation point and 2) you do not have to worry about losing the Office 2003 CD! However, the disadvantage of doing this ( compared to my next suggestion ) is that when you want to update the clients ( sagen wir, dass Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 liefiert ) you have the problem of updating each client - this usually involves uninstalling Office 2003 from each client ( you could use the utility from the Office 2003 Resource Kit to do this! ) and then running the installation on each workstation. Sure, you could probably do this via a logon script, but you still have the administrative overhead ( you have to write the additional lines in the logon script and make sure that it is run on each machine and then rem out the additional lines in the logon script ). So, with this solution you have a really nicely located Administrative Installation Point that you can nicely keep up to date but you have the problem on the workstations. So, I would suggest to you that you take a good long look at using Group Policy to install Office 2003 to all of your computers ( or users ). You simply make that one Administrative Installation Point ( via setup.exe /a ) - which you can still update when security patches are releases or when a Service Pack is released - and you have the ability to very quickly and without much administrative overhead install this to your clients and - here comes a really neat point - easily and quickly update the clients when those security patches or Service Packs are released. Additionally, if you make use of the Office 2003 Resource Kit you can create .mst files ( aka Transforms files ) that will allow you to customize the installation ( say that Heinz and Hans get Excel, Word and Outlook while Ulrike and Petra get PowerPoint, Word and Outlook ). Furthermore, you can set a lot of the options via a GPO that will ensure that all of your users have the settings that they need. You will not have to go to each computer and make sure that all of those specific settings are properly configured. Do it via the GPO and there you have it! Also, you can control it so that your clients can not go to the officeupdate.microsoft.com and make untested updates to the Office 2003 installation. This is a really nice feature as well..... Sarah, Du kannst Dich gerne an mich wenden solltest Du Fragen ueber das Group Policy Object haben.... HTH, Cary "Sarah Tanembaum" wrote in message ... Is it possible to run office from a server? We just purchased 10 brand new PC with Windows XP Pro Pre-installed, an a server with ample of memory and disk space. We also purchase a 15-user license of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Instead of installing MS Office 2003 on all the workstation, is there a way to run Office from a server? I know of the terminal services/citrix way but that is out of the question as it will add cost per client. Thanks |
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Hi Kevin, as stated on my previous email. I have a very powerful server and
workstation. For ease of administration, why would I purchase another terminal server licenses if there are such solution(which in my mind it is very easy to implement in a client-server environment) where make use the power of the workstation. By using the terminal services, we are adding another cost of terminal services license and the server does not scale well for active users. The solution I propose(I'm sure that you know what I'm talking about) we are make use what we have now(powerful workstation) to run an app from a file server. Its just as simple as that. "Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" wrote in message ... Sarah, There's different solutions available to fit different needs. By your post it appears that you bought your solution before determining your needs. If your need and desire is to administer a single installation of Office for all of your users, then Terminal Services is a valid solution. Is this against MS idealogy? Not in my mind, since there are many, many companies, both large and small, that have installed Terminal Services as a solution. As with all needs/solutions, you weight the benefits, the pros and cons, and make the best choice possible. You say it's not economical. But compared to what? It appears that you consider the time and cost of administrative overhead in maintaining, upgrading, and patching standard PC's with individual copies of Windows and Office installed on each PC to be a high priority issue. So, if you can reduce the overhead and hassle of administering such a network, then you've answered your own question: yes, it's economical. Don't know what you mean by claiming that Microsoft is still ironing out how to implement such a solution. I previously managed the IT dept for a large health care facility that has over 200 users operating on Microsoft Windows Terminal Server. You want to talk about economical? You want to talk about redundancy? You want to talk about ease of administering such network? You want to talk about implementing new security policies? No, a TS environment is not for all ... but don't just knock it ... it is a valid solution for those with the need of such a solution. -- Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long" "Sarah Tanembaum" wrote in message ... Thanks Kevin. Unfortunately the terminal services are out of the question. We have pretty powerful workstation and server, why would I use my workstation as a terminal(Isn't this goes again MS ideology)? Secondly, why would I pay an additional license for each workstation to access the terminal server. It is just not economical. Or perhaps Microsoft is still ironing-out on how to implement this this type of technology(networked-multi-user-multi-task-apps)? Thanks "Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" wrote in message ... Sarah, what you have described is called 'Windows Terminal Server'. You are right about the fact that by installing Office on one system, and letting everyone access it reduces administrative issues. But, SBS2003 does not allow you to configure Terminal Server on the SBS server itself. You can add a separate system to act as a terminal server alongside your SBS server. The temrinal server would house your Office apps, and your SBS server would handle Exchange/email, Internet access, and file/print services. -- Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long" "Sarah Tanembaum" wrote in message ... I'm trying to use my server as a file server, where I will store all the Office executable. If MS so willing, then they can tell us what registry setting on the local machine has to change so each of my workstation can run office apps, e.g. MS Word, Excel, and other, right from their workstation? Is it a technology issues that prevent this to happen? What's the big problem since other OSes can handle multi-user apps? Imagine if I can do that, everytime the workstation crashed and corrupted the disk, all I have to do is install the os, mount the directory where office reside, and voile ... it's back up again. Also, when the office need upgrade, all I have to do is to upgrade the one on the server and again, those 10(or for that matter 100K)workstation has their office upgraded! Any ideas? "Chris Jones" wrote in message ... I think you have the option upon installing if you want to install Office to a server, but I am thinking if you have 10 users it is going to slow down your server badly. Is there a particular reason you dont want to install on the workstations? You can setup admin install of office to install just like Outlook installs on SBS client upon connection. "Sarah Tanembaum" wrote in message ... Is it possible to run office from a server? We just purchased 10 brand new PC with Windows XP Pro Pre-installed, an a server with ample of memory and disk space. We also purchase a 15-user license of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Instead of installing MS Office 2003 on all the workstation, is there a way to run Office from a server? I know of the terminal services/citrix way but that is out of the question as it will add cost per client. Thanks |
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I don't think I'm worry about my network speed. I have ample bandwidth (Giga
ethernet), fast workstation, and fast server. All I want is to execute the app from file server. I don;t think this is such a hard technology to implement isn't it? "Frank McCallister" anonymous wrote in message ... Hi Sarah You can run the executables from the server if you wish but a certain number of DLLs will have to be on the WS. You don't want to do this though because your Office programs will run as slow as mollasses because the executables will have to be loaded across the 100 mb network lines instead of from a much faster HD unless you are using Terminal services where only the video is transmitted across the Network and even that is slower than running local. The only time you would want to run from server is if you had extremely small Hard Disks which make no sense with the price of HDs these days. Frank McCallister COMPUMAC "Sarah Tanembaum" wrote in message ... Thanks Kevin. Unfortunately the terminal services are out of the question. We have pretty powerful workstation and server, why would I use my workstation as a terminal(Isn't this goes again MS ideology)? Secondly, why would I pay an additional license for each workstation to access the terminal server. It is just not economical. Or perhaps Microsoft is still ironing-out on how to implement this this type of technology(networked-multi-user-multi-task-apps)? Thanks "Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" wrote in message ... Sarah, what you have described is called 'Windows Terminal Server'. You are right about the fact that by installing Office on one system, and letting everyone access it reduces administrative issues. But, SBS2003 does not allow you to configure Terminal Server on the SBS server itself. You can add a separate system to act as a terminal server alongside your SBS server. The temrinal server would house your Office apps, and your SBS server would handle Exchange/email, Internet access, and file/print services. -- Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long" "Sarah Tanembaum" wrote in message ... I'm trying to use my server as a file server, where I will store all the Office executable. If MS so willing, then they can tell us what registry setting on the local machine has to change so each of my workstation can run office apps, e.g. MS Word, Excel, and other, right from their workstation? Is it a technology issues that prevent this to happen? What's the big problem since other OSes can handle multi-user apps? Imagine if I can do that, everytime the workstation crashed and corrupted the disk, all I have to do is install the os, mount the directory where office reside, and voile ... it's back up again. Also, when the office need upgrade, all I have to do is to upgrade the one on the server and again, those 10(or for that matter 100K)workstation has their office upgraded! Any ideas? "Chris Jones" wrote in message ... I think you have the option upon installing if you want to install Office to a server, but I am thinking if you have 10 users it is going to slow down your server badly. Is there a particular reason you dont want to install on the workstations? You can setup admin install of office to install just like Outlook installs on SBS client upon connection. "Sarah Tanembaum" wrote in message ... Is it possible to run office from a server? We just purchased 10 brand new PC with Windows XP Pro Pre-installed, an a server with ample of memory and disk space. We also purchase a 15-user license of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Instead of installing MS Office 2003 on all the workstation, is there a way to run Office from a server? I know of the terminal services/citrix way but that is out of the question as it will add cost per client. Thanks |
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Office REQUIRES specific files to be installed locally in order to run. If
you want a pure server solution, it will not work. How many specific file(s) are you talking about? Do you have a list of what specific files are you mentioning? Thanks "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message ... Please do yourself a favor and look at the Office Resource Kit and the Windows 2003 (or whatever version of Windows you have) Terminal Services white papers. What you are asking has been answered many times here - if it is not the answer you like, then look for a different vendor/solution. We have all told you what is and is not possible, the problems inherent in trying to meet your requests, and have basically given up providing answers that you do not want to hear. Office REQUIRES specific files to be installed locally in order to run. If you want a pure server solution, it will not work. -- Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Sarah Tanembaum asked: | Why not possible? | | Thanks. | | "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" | wrote in message | ... || No, you can either run Office from a TS/Citrix environment or you can || install it locally. You can create an admin installation point on || the server and have the clients load office via a logon script when || they first start Windows. But you cannot run it from a plain server. || || -- || Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] || || Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to || the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my || personal account will be deleted without reading. || || After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Sarah || Tanembaum asked: || ||| Is it possible to run office from a server? ||| ||| We just purchased 10 brand new PC with Windows XP Pro Pre-installed, ||| an a server with ample of memory and disk space. ||| ||| We also purchase a 15-user license of Microsoft Office 2003 ||| Professional. ||| ||| Instead of installing MS Office 2003 on all the workstation, is ||| there ||| a way to run Office from a server? ||| ||| I know of the terminal services/citrix way but that is out of the ||| question as it will add cost per client. ||| ||| Thanks |
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Well, I guess MS does not have solution of running apps from a
network-mounted-disk-from-a-server. I am familiar with terminal services as well citrix/metaframe since the early days up till now. It just does not scale. What we have now that we have fast network, fast server, fast disk, and fast workstation. If there are such solution where almost any new OS can do that but does not include Microsoft. "Dirk-Thomas Brown" wrote in message ... If you do an admin install to the server, you then do an install from that location on each workstation. You choose custom install and the different applications have an option to "Run from the network" It will be SLOW though... Dirk-Thomas "Sarah Tanembaum" wrote in message ... "KevinK" wrote in message ... Technically it can be installed and run from the server, and would save the problem of updating all 10 PCs. How? Does MS supply a setup script for workstation to run office from network-mounted-disk? But as Chris mentioned, it would use huge amounts of the network. This is not an issues for us. We have ample bandwidth to spare. You can copy the CDs to the server and install to each workstation from there. This does not make any sense. Why can I just use them from network disk(attached to each workstation), and execute the apps from there? This is time consuming and it just plain old technology. The only thing I can think of is if MS is collaborating with: 1. Disk vendors -- so we need to buy a lots of disk space to store the same executable programs 2. Consultant -- more billable time(yeah.) But seriously, why don't they(MS) make our lives(SysAdmin) a bit easier? Once installed, don't forget "Office Update" as opposed to "Windows Update" -----Original Message----- Is it possible to run office from a server? We just purchased 10 brand new PC with Windows XP Pro Pre-installed, an a server with ample of memory and disk space. We also purchase a 15-user license of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Instead of installing MS Office 2003 on all the workstation, is there a way to run Office from a server? I know of the terminal services/citrix way but that is out of the question as it will add cost per client. Thanks . |
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I think this is very inefficient. Why can I install my apps on a disk in my
server and mount that disk on my workstation and execute the exe file from there. If I need to upgrade, all I have to do is upgrade the server and those 10(or 100 workstation) will get updated instantly without clogging up the network for transferring files between the server and those 10(or 100) client workstation. I think you all know what I'm talking about but most of your MVP[Microsoft .....] are avoding the issues. Please .... "Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]" wrote in message ... Sarah, I might jump in here for a second. First of all, the idea of a Terminal Server is generally a really good idea. I have been using Terminal Server for the last 15 months or so and it is generally a great thing. As Kevin mentioned, you can no longer install Terminal Server in Application Mode ( err, that is the WIN2000 terminology.... ) on the SBS2003 Server itself. There are some very good reasons for this. You would need a second server that would be the Terminal Server. On SBS2000 you can indeed do this - but again, not generally a good idea to run Terminal Server in Application Mode on a Domain Controller.... However, since you have powerful workstations, you have a really good point / question as to why do you would want to turn them into thin clients. I would probably not want to do that! Du hast schon das Geld ausgegeben! Secondly, you can indeed make an Administrative Installation of Office 2003 on your Server and install that application on each workstation from that Admin Installation. The advantages of doing this are 1) you have a common, accessible installation point and 2) you do not have to worry about losing the Office 2003 CD! However, the disadvantage of doing this ( compared to my next suggestion ) is that when you want to update the clients ( sagen wir, dass Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 liefiert ) you have the problem of updating each client - this usually involves uninstalling Office 2003 from each client ( you could use the utility from the Office 2003 Resource Kit to do this! ) and then running the installation on each workstation. Sure, you could probably do this via a logon script, but you still have the administrative overhead ( you have to write the additional lines in the logon script and make sure that it is run on each machine and then rem out the additional lines in the logon script ). So, with this solution you have a really nicely located Administrative Installation Point that you can nicely keep up to date but you have the problem on the workstations. So, I would suggest to you that you take a good long look at using Group Policy to install Office 2003 to all of your computers ( or users ). You simply make that one Administrative Installation Point ( via setup.exe /a ) - which you can still update when security patches are releases or when a Service Pack is released - and you have the ability to very quickly and without much administrative overhead install this to your clients and - here comes a really neat point - easily and quickly update the clients when those security patches or Service Packs are released. Additionally, if you make use of the Office 2003 Resource Kit you can create .mst files ( aka Transforms files ) that will allow you to customize the installation ( say that Heinz and Hans get Excel, Word and Outlook while Ulrike and Petra get PowerPoint, Word and Outlook ). Furthermore, you can set a lot of the options via a GPO that will ensure that all of your users have the settings that they need. You will not have to go to each computer and make sure that all of those specific settings are properly configured. Do it via the GPO and there you have it! Also, you can control it so that your clients can not go to the officeupdate.microsoft.com and make untested updates to the Office 2003 installation. This is a really nice feature as well..... Sarah, Du kannst Dich gerne an mich wenden solltest Du Fragen ueber das Group Policy Object haben.... HTH, Cary "Sarah Tanembaum" wrote in message ... Is it possible to run office from a server? We just purchased 10 brand new PC with Windows XP Pro Pre-installed, an a server with ample of memory and disk space. We also purchase a 15-user license of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Instead of installing MS Office 2003 on all the workstation, is there a way to run Office from a server? I know of the terminal services/citrix way but that is out of the question as it will add cost per client. Thanks |
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Nope, we're not avoiding the issues. We're simply providing you "our"
experiences and insight - and that's all any of us can do. No product is perfect. And we certainly don't pretend to have all the answers. If you don't like our responses, then I would suggest that you consider moving your arguments to another NG that may have the answers you are looking for. -- Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long" "Sarah Tanembaum" wrote in message ... I think this is very inefficient. Why can I install my apps on a disk in my server and mount that disk on my workstation and execute the exe file from there. If I need to upgrade, all I have to do is upgrade the server and those 10(or 100 workstation) will get updated instantly without clogging up the network for transferring files between the server and those 10(or 100) client workstation. I think you all know what I'm talking about but most of your MVP[Microsoft ....] are avoding the issues. Please .... "Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]" wrote in message ... Sarah, I might jump in here for a second. First of all, the idea of a Terminal Server is generally a really good idea. I have been using Terminal Server for the last 15 months or so and it is generally a great thing. As Kevin mentioned, you can no longer install Terminal Server in Application Mode ( err, that is the WIN2000 terminology.... ) on the SBS2003 Server itself. There are some very good reasons for this. You would need a second server that would be the Terminal Server. On SBS2000 you can indeed do this - but again, not generally a good idea to run Terminal Server in Application Mode on a Domain Controller.... However, since you have powerful workstations, you have a really good point / question as to why do you would want to turn them into thin clients. I would probably not want to do that! Du hast schon das Geld ausgegeben! Secondly, you can indeed make an Administrative Installation of Office 2003 on your Server and install that application on each workstation from that Admin Installation. The advantages of doing this are 1) you have a common, accessible installation point and 2) you do not have to worry about losing the Office 2003 CD! However, the disadvantage of doing this ( compared to my next suggestion ) is that when you want to update the clients ( sagen wir, dass Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 liefiert ) you have the problem of updating each client - this usually involves uninstalling Office 2003 from each client ( you could use the utility from the Office 2003 Resource Kit to do this! ) and then running the installation on each workstation. Sure, you could probably do this via a logon script, but you still have the administrative overhead ( you have to write the additional lines in the logon script and make sure that it is run on each machine and then rem out the additional lines in the logon script ). So, with this solution you have a really nicely located Administrative Installation Point that you can nicely keep up to date but you have the problem on the workstations. So, I would suggest to you that you take a good long look at using Group Policy to install Office 2003 to all of your computers ( or users ). You simply make that one Administrative Installation Point ( via setup.exe /a ) - which you can still update when security patches are releases or when a Service Pack is released - and you have the ability to very quickly and without much administrative overhead install this to your clients and - here comes a really neat point - easily and quickly update the clients when those security patches or Service Packs are released. Additionally, if you make use of the Office 2003 Resource Kit you can create .mst files ( aka Transforms files ) that will allow you to customize the installation ( say that Heinz and Hans get Excel, Word and Outlook while Ulrike and Petra get PowerPoint, Word and Outlook ). Furthermore, you can set a lot of the options via a GPO that will ensure that all of your users have the settings that they need. You will not have to go to each computer and make sure that all of those specific settings are properly configured. Do it via the GPO and there you have it! Also, you can control it so that your clients can not go to the officeupdate.microsoft.com and make untested updates to the Office 2003 installation. This is a really nice feature as well..... Sarah, Du kannst Dich gerne an mich wenden solltest Du Fragen ueber das Group Policy Object haben.... HTH, Cary "Sarah Tanembaum" wrote in message ... Is it possible to run office from a server? We just purchased 10 brand new PC with Windows XP Pro Pre-installed, an a server with ample of memory and disk space. We also purchase a 15-user license of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Instead of installing MS Office 2003 on all the workstation, is there a way to run Office from a server? I know of the terminal services/citrix way but that is out of the question as it will add cost per client. Thanks |
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