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Administrative Template for Deploying OOo 3 via Group Policy

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:30 am
by thymox
Hi all,

I am setting up an OpenOffice deployment for a network of Vista machines connected to an SBS2008 server.

I have extracted the installation files from the .exe download; I have put them in a place accessible over our network; I have created the software deployment policy for installing OOo 3.0.1 (I have set it as "assigned" rather than "published").

Are there any ADM or ADMX files available for OpenOffice to control some aspects of the software administratively?

Cheers.
T.

Re: Administrative Template for Deploying OOo 3 via Group Policy

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:47 am
by Villeroy
OOo is platform independent. It installs like a typical Linux application. Version 3 drops everything in two installation directories (below "program files") and all the things to be writable by the user get into the user's profile (below "documents and settings").
This includes 2 trees of an XML-registry (analogue to system and user).
Every new user gets a copy of the default user profile after finishing his first start wizard.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wik ... tion_Guide

Re: Administrative Template for Deploying OOo 3 via Group Policy

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:49 pm
by thymox
Thank you for the reply, Villeroy, but it doesn't really answer the question. What I'm looking for, for example, is the ability to set some various options at deployment time - so I don't have to go around to every machine that gets the software and mess about with the settings. If I have to go to each machine individually, there's not a lot of point in being able to "deploy" the software.