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More info?)
Cary,
I have already implemented this but a problem that I have run into is that
it does not work with the viewers 97/2000? I loaded the office 2000 adm
files but they still don't work on the viewers, any ideas?
Stephen
"Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]" wrote:
> Catherine,
>
> This is a really good thing to ask.
>
> There is a very simple way to do this: install the Office Resource Kit and
> make sure that the correct .adm files are available to you. Then, once you
> go to the GPO you can simply right click on the Administrative Templates and
> select Add/Remove Templates and then simply add the Office9.adm, Word9.adm,
> PPoint9.adm, Outlk9.adm, Excel9.adm and Access9.adm files ( this is assuming
> Office 2000, as that would be the 'equivalent's to 'Office 9'. Office XP
> would be Office 10, for example ). Once this is done you would simply enter
> the default path that you want in Tools | Options and then in the General
> section. You would need to enable the 'Default File Location' and then give
> the path.
>
> Now, how do you do this exactly? That depends on you. There are two ways
> that I can think of right now. One is not what I would necessarily do and
> the other is what I would do.
>
> So, the one that I would not necessarily do:
>
> Install the Office Resource Kit on the Domain Controller on which you create
> the GPOs ( generally the one that holds the FSMO Role of PDC Emulator ).
> Then, go to the ADUC and go to the OU in question ( assuming that you are
> doing this at the OU level....there are two others - Site and Domain. I am
> leaving the Local level out of this conversation for obvious reasons ) and
> create the GPO. You would then go to the Admin Templates, right click and
> select Add/Remove templates. Then you simply add the .adm files that I
> mentioned above. You need to know that they are located in the hidden inf
> folder that is located in the WINNT folder. So, you will need to make sure
> that you have enabled 'Show all hidden files and folders'.
>
> Then, you will notice that you have a lot more templates - Office 2000, Word
> 2000, Excel 2000, PowerPoint 2000, et al. Go to the Tools | Options
> sub-folder of each one and then to the General folder and in the right pane
> you will see the 'Default File Location' entry. Simply enable it and enter
> the path that you want ( probably to the redirected My Documents
> folder???? ). I am not sure if you can do this in the Office 2000 templates
> area. I would guess that you could and it would affect at the least Word
> and Excel. I have never tried that....maybe I will look into this in a test
> lab later!
>
> Now, for the way that I would do it:
>
> On a Windows 2000 workstation make sure that you install the ADMINPAK (
> located on the Service Pack CD ) so that you will have all of the ADUC MMCs
> available to you ( assuming that you are logging on as a member of the
> Domain Admins....probably should not normally but for these purposes it is
> okay! ). You would then install the Office Resource Kit on your 'admin'
> workstation. Then simply go to the Administrative Tools and open up the
> ADUC and create the GPO normally. You will have to add the .adm templates -
> just like above - for them to be available to you. Please note that you
> might want to copy the .adm files to a shared network folder and use that
> location as the source instead of your local c:\winnt\inf folder.....
>
> HTH,
>
> Cary
>
> "Catherine Power" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:14a801c49c96$2c405ea0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am in the process of implementing group policys in order
> > to lock down workstations. I was wondering can anyone tell
> > me what settings in group policy I need to change in order
> > to change users default save to / open from directory to
> > be a network drive ?
> >
> > Any help would be most welcome and I am tearing my hair
> > out here.
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Catherine
> >
> >
>
>
>
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