"please wait while windows configures microsoft office professionaledition 2003" On roaming profiles

Hi,

I have a couple of teaching labs with highly restricted student use
profiles. They can basically do nothing except use the shortcuts that
are displayed on the desktop. Group policy deletes the cached copy of
the roaming profile on logoff and prevents the profile changes from
propogating back to the server. These machines have office 2003
professional edition on them and whenever a user logs in and opens any
office application, word or excel for example, the setup box comes up
saying "please wait while windows configures microsoft office
professional edition 2003" and after thats done it asks for name and
initials and then works.

If the user logs off and logs back on it does the same thing again.
The users are local administrators on the computers in order for a
couple specialized applications to work so that should not be an
issue.

Any ideas on how I can stop this from coming up? It aparently
confuses the students.

Thanks!

This happens because of the profile. Each time Office starts with a new
user, it has to go through a "Branding Process" which is what you are seeing.
Try putting this text into a vbscript and putting into your login script.
This will brand it for you. I am not sure if this is exactly what you are
looking for, but give it a shot.

Set objSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")

strUser = objSysInfo.UserName
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUser)

Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
objWord.UserName = objUser.givenName & " " & objUser.SN
objWord.UserInitials = objUser.SamAccountName
objWord.Quit

Eric

"Wingnut" wrote:

Hi,

I have a couple of teaching labs with highly restricted student use
profiles. They can basically do nothing except use the shortcuts that
are displayed on the desktop. Group policy deletes the cached copy of
the roaming profile on logoff and prevents the profile changes from
propogating back to the server. These machines have office 2003
professional edition on them and whenever a user logs in and opens any
office application, word or excel for example, the setup box comes up
saying "please wait while windows configures microsoft office
professional edition 2003" and after thats done it asks for name and
initials and then works.

If the user logs off and logs back on it does the same thing again.
The users are local administrators on the computers in order for a
couple specialized applications to work so that should not be an
issue.

Any ideas on how I can stop this from coming up? It aparently
confuses the students.

Thanks!

On Sep 4, 4:06*pm, Eric wrote:
This happens because of the profile. *Each time Office starts with a new
user, it has to go through a "Branding Process" which is what you are seeing.
*Try putting this text into a vbscript and putting into your login script. *
This will brand it for you. *I am not sure if this is exactly what you are
looking for, but give it a shot.

Set objSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")

strUser = objSysInfo.UserName
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUser)

Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
objWord.UserName = objUser.givenName & " " & objUser.SN
objWord.UserInitials = objUser.SamAccountName
objWord.Quit

Eric



"Wingnut" wrote:
Hi,

I have a couple of teaching labs with highly restricted student use
profiles. *They can basically do nothing except use the shortcuts that
are displayed on the desktop. *Group policy deletes the cached copy of
the roaming profile on logoff and prevents the profile changes from
propogating back to the server. *These machines have office 2003
professional edition on them and whenever a user logs in and opens any
office application, word or excel for example, the setup box comes up
saying "please wait while windows configures microsoft office
professional edition 2003" and after thats done it asks for name and
initials and then works.

If the user logs off and logs back on it does the same thing again.
The users are local administrators on the computers in order for a
couple specialized applications to work so that should not be an
issue.

Any ideas on how I can stop this from coming up? *It aparently
confuses the students.

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Great I will try that, however I have not used vbscript before, what
extension would I give the text file I add this to or could I just add
it to my already existing login.bat?

thanks.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825941

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Peter

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"Wingnut" wrote in message ...
Hi,

I have a couple of teaching labs with highly restricted student use
profiles. They can basically do nothing except use the shortcuts that
are displayed on the desktop. Group policy deletes the cached copy of
the roaming profile on logoff and prevents the profile changes from
propogating back to the server. These machines have office 2003
professional edition on them and whenever a user logs in and opens any
office application, word or excel for example, the setup box comes up
saying "please wait while windows configures microsoft office
professional edition 2003" and after thats done it asks for name and
initials and then works.

If the user logs off and logs back on it does the same thing again.
The users are local administrators on the computers in order for a
couple specialized applications to work so that should not be an
issue.

Any ideas on how I can stop this from coming up? It aparently
confuses the students.

Thanks!