assigning office 2k3 to group policy

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Hello,
Ensure the TCP/IP DNS Settings are correct at all workstations. All
Computers within the domain should be available to resolve the name of the
Active Directory Domain.

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"Pert5a" <salonki1@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> Hi,
>
> I tried to answer to Ken's message, but this system didn't allow me to
> do that?!?!?
>
> Workstations are win 2k. So if anybody can figure out what's the prob.
> I would be very grateful.
>
> thanks
>
> Perttu
>
>
>
>>Much like myself, I think you'll end up not liking that method of
>>deployment.... I'm seeing the error in my ways that I cannot easily
> apply
>>service packs and fixes to Office. I believe an administrative
> installation
>>would be better used here.
>>
>>As for why not getting installed? Are the workstations XP? If so,
> they may
>>not be waiting for the network on bootup, and you'd need to change
> that
>>setting in a policy object. I believe it's in Computer Config>Admin
>>Templates>System>Logon>Always wait for the network at computer
> startup and
>>logon. Enable that setting, and wait for replication to happen.
> This WILL
>>increase logon / startup times for the affected computers as it will
> force
>>the computer to wait for the network to become available. I don't
> know if
>>this could have a negative impact down the road, if your network goes
>>down--your users may not be able to log on with cached credentials
> just to
>>get *something* running.
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>Ken
>
>
> "Pert5a" <salonki1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Hello
>>
>> Im assigning office 2003 to Group policys computer configuration. It
>> seems to work fine but about 25% of workstations do not install it at
>> all. 75% works very good. I used GPResult to see if those 25% of these
>> workstations won't get GP at all, but they do?!?! I can't understand
>> why this is so casual. I have just copied files from cd to directory
>> in my file server and made an mst-file which also works very good, in
>> those cases where this installation starts. Please somebody help me,
>> I'm getting desperate... thx