Comments on: Deploy Office 2007 compatibility pack via GPO http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2007/10/deploy-office-2007-compatibility-pack-via-gpo/ Windows Network Administration Software Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:32:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: mr_jeep http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2007/10/deploy-office-2007-compatibility-pack-via-gpo/comment-page-1/#comment-914 mr_jeep Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:28:47 +0000 http://intelliadmin.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/deploy-office-2007-compatibility-pack-via-gpo/#comment-914 The file that you can download from microsoft is fileformatconverters.exe. If you go to a command prompt and type fileformatconverters.exe /? it pops up a list of commands you can do for deploying the software. One option is /extract:Path which will extract the .msi file and the rest of the contents of the package to the path you specify. If you are using something like altiris or sms you can directly deploy the package using the executable and the options /quiet /passive /norestart and there will be no disruption to the user. fileformatconverters.exe /quiet /passive /norestart The file that you can download from microsoft is fileformatconverters.exe. If you go to a command prompt and type fileformatconverters.exe /? it pops up a list of commands you can do for deploying the software. One option is /extract:Path which will extract the .msi file and the rest of the contents of the package to the path you specify. If you are using something like altiris or sms you can directly deploy the package using the executable and the options /quiet /passive /norestart and there will be no disruption to the user. fileformatconverters.exe /quiet /passive /norestart

]]> By: Mikey http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2007/10/deploy-office-2007-compatibility-pack-via-gpo/comment-page-1/#comment-718 Mikey Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:47:36 +0000 http://intelliadmin.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/deploy-office-2007-compatibility-pack-via-gpo/#comment-718 Isn't this just like Microsoft -- they can't seem to pull it together. Hmmm....perhaps they need some serious inter-department COMMUNICATIONS training! GPO software installation is fantastic. But way too much Microsoft stuff is not readily compatible to push with GPO. We have to go figure out stupid tricks like this to make it work. Suppose I shouldn't complaint too much though. Job security and all ;-) Isn’t this just like Microsoft — they can’t seem to pull it together. Hmmm….perhaps they need some serious inter-department COMMUNICATIONS training!

GPO software installation is fantastic. But way too much Microsoft stuff is not readily compatible to push with GPO. We have to go figure out stupid tricks like this to make it work.

Suppose I shouldn’t complaint too much though. Job security and all ;-)

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