Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit [Paperback]

The Microsoft Office Team (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0735614032 | ISBN-13: 978-0735614031 | Publication Date: June 9, 2001

Deploy, support, and optimize Microsoft's next-generation Office suite with expertise from those who know the technology best-the Office XP team. It's the latest version of the all-in-one manual that computer professionals rely on for installing, customizing, and supporting Microsoft Office. This powerhouse reference includes hundreds of pages of detailed technical drill-down plus exclusive tools and utilities on CD-ROM designed to help readers save time and reduce support costs.

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Amazon.com Review

Microsoft Office ranks among the most pedestrian of software suites--it's in a high percentage of the world's cubicles, for sure. But there's more to Microsoft's productivity suite than what the user sees, and Office XP adds, in the form of activation-based licensing, a whole new level of intrigue to what's always been a deployment and maintenance challenge. Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit shows how to manage Office XP effectively and efficiently, emphasizing the suite's capacity for centralized management. Like all members of the Microsoft Resource Kit series, this one includes a CD-ROM containing utility software and searchable documentation.

Administrators will appreciate the coverage of best practices in this book. For example, the authors advise you to use a totally clean computer as a platform for creating an image of the Office installation you want to deploy network-wide, and warn you against starting applications on that machine so as to avoid creating any user-preferences settings. Information on Registry settings also is outstanding--readers will find documentation of keys and values here that doesn't appear in any other printed volume. The utility software's pretty cool, too: Supplementary file converters, an Outlook security configurer, and Answer Wizard Builder (a tool with which you can create help documents specific to your organization) are among the goodies. --David Wall

Topics covered: Microsoft Office XP, explained for the benefit of people who will be installing, upgrading, customizing, and managing it across an organizational network. Installation, user management, localization, and messaging are among the kit's areas of emphasis.

Product Details

• Paperback: 618 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (June 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735614032
• ISBN-13: 978-0735614031
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,311,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New version of Office means new help., July 8, 2001

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This review is from: Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit (Paperback)

You are the network manager and you are charged with ensuring the transition to Office XP is easy and seamless. You have not seen the application and then you must learn what to do and the best ways to deploy the application. Where do you turn to for help?

Microsoft Press has just the answer with the Office XP Resource Kit. The 600 plus page reference manual is tailored made for the IT or network managers and the help and support desk professionals. This book will give you answers, guide you through the installation and make support a great deal easier.

In part 1 you find out what's new and learn how the setup for the deployment of Office XP. Part 2 deals directly with the deployment, installation and customization. You will also learn what to do with both Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000.

Part 3 is for maintenance, repair, how to remove applications, setting up system policies and maintaining and setting security for Office XP. Part 4 is used for worldwide installation for those larger companies to integrate the Office XP throughout each office.

Part 5 deals directly with the Outlook and messaging, it shows how to upgrade, set up security and what can be done within the terminal services arena. Finally three is a cd-rom include with the e-book, and abundance of tools, wizards, file converters, and viewers. For my job this is certainly going to be a go to book.