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Office Deployment
Deployment Notes from the Field
Read any or all of the chapters from Deploying Microsoft Office 2000: Notes from the Field, a book based on Microsoft Consulting Services experiences in the field and available for order at the Office Bookstore.
Chapter 1: Planning Your Migration
Walk through the creation of a complete migration plan in this chapter to find the basic information you need to plan an Office 2000 migration for your organization.
Chapter 2: Migrating Files, Templates, and Custom Solutions
Look to this chapter for information about migrating files, templates, and custom solutions. Moving to Office 2000 involves far fewer file migration issues than previous upgrades; this chapter will help you deal with the issues that remain.
Chapter 3: Coexisting with Previous Versions of Office
During deployment your users will be running a variety of versions of Office. That can get complicated. This chapter shows how to assess coexistence issues in your environment, pick the best strategy, and then implement it.
Chapter 4: Customizing an Office 2000 Installation
Customize your Office 2000 installation to provide the tools users need, minimize installation time, and reduce the burden on your helpdesk. This chapter tells you how.
Chapter 5: User Settings
Find out about user settings and the preferred methods for creating, changing, and distributing them.
Chapter 6: Preparing for Office 2000 Distribution
Discover how to compile an accurate inventory of your organization's software and hardware in order to distribute Office 2000 efficiently. This chapter explains how to gather that information using Microsoft Systems Management Server.
Chapter 7: Distributing Microsoft Office 2000
Learn more about the three basic Office 2000 distribution media—Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS), network administrative share, and CD—and how to choose the method or combination of methods that will serve you best.
Chapter 8: Deploying Outlook 2000
You can deploy Microsoft Outlook® 2000 before, after, or with Office 2000. Find tips on how to plan, execute, and optimize your Outlook 2000 deployment using tools available in the Office Resource Kit.
Chapter 9: Multinational Deployment
Explore your options for an international deployment, and then create a deployment plan that meets your needs while requiring minimal IT effort.
Chapter 10: Network Bandwidth Considerations
Find out how network load is impacted as Office features are installed. The statistics in this chapter will help you choose which deployment method is best for your organization.
Chapter 11: Customizing Alerts and Help
Your organization can customize the alerts and help files in Office 2000 to direct employees to internal support resources, for instance. This chapter shows why, where, and how to customize the built-in support in Office.
Chapter 12: Deploying Office 2000 on Windows Terminal Server
Learn how to deploy and customize Office 2000 on Microsoft Windows NT® Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition.
Chapter 13: Deploying and Managing Office Server Extensions
Find out how to deploy and manage Microsoft Office Server Extensions in a corporate environment. This chapter explains how to take full advantage of the new collaboration features of Office 2000 while preventing unauthorized access and loss of data.
Chapter 14: Office 2000 and Windows 2000
Get information on how to deploy Office 2000 in a large, corporate environment that includes Microsoft Windows® 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Professional.
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