Office 2007 Deployment, 101
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Forget about 'upgrading.' Blowing away everything on each machine and beginning from the ground up results in a faster, more stable install.
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Microsoft intends to offer a beta version of Office Communicator 2007 to millions of testers later this month. The move will begin an effort to give VoIP click-to-call functionality to some 100 million users of Office in the next three years.
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With Office 2007 radically reorganizing the way users think and work with applications, today, Microsoft announced a royalty-free licensing program for developers who want to make use of Office's new, distinctive style. If you're wondering whether there are strings attached...wonder no more.
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Microsoft on Thursday released to manufacturing Exchange Server 2007, a product developers say they "bet the company on." According to Exchange team lead Terry Myerson, Microsoft has 120,000 mailboxes running on Exchange 2007, with 200 partners utilizing the software for another 55,000.
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Office for Mac 2008 incorrectly assigns ownership of some files, Microsoft has confirmed, creating a potential security problem for businesses installing the new application suite.Joel Bruner, a Chicago-based Mac consultant, was the first to notice the ownership snafu. "[Microsoft] moved to Apple's Package Maker (.pkg) installer files, good news for the enterprise, [but] unfortunately, they've created all the packages to install most all of the files with the owner set to 502."In a shop where employees run with limited privileges -- a practice very common in an enterprise -- and IT is the only user with full administrative rights, Office 2008's ownership assignment means that a user who wasn't supposed to have complete control over those files actually does. In other words, whomever is assigned user ID 502 has full read/write access to Office's files."So let's say, Mr. IT installs this on a user's machine where the first user is the admin[istrator] (501) and the standard user is Joe User (502)," said Bruner in a post to his blog on Monday. "Well, when after all's installed, it will give Joe User (502) ownership of these folders and their installed contents:/Library/Automator/ (if it doesn't exist already) /Library/Fonts/Microsoft /Library/Application Support/Microsoft /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008"The screw-up could present a corporate security problem, at least internally, said Bruner, if that Mac's second, standard user -- user 502 -- decides to make changes to the folders and files by, say, deleting some or moving others.A Microsoft developer left a comment at Bruner's blog confirming that the company knows about the problem. "The MacBU (Mac Business Unit) is aware of this issue," said Erik Schwiebert, a software design lead in the group.Microsoft, however, did not immediately respond to queries about how it intends to correct the problem and what users can do in the meantime.Other commenters at Bruner's blog hesitated to blame only Microsoft, however. "The truth is that this is a long-standing flaw in Apple's Installer," argued someone identified as Not Required. "Maybe Microsoft should have known better, but maybe Apple should also have improved their installer years ago. Apple clearly hasn't cared enough about smaller developers to make a fix, so hopefully Microsoft has a high enough profile that something finally gets done."In a follow-up post also on Monday, Bruner added that all the Office for Mac 2008 files owned by user 502 are also erroneously set as executable. "Now tell me does '/Microsoft Office 2008/Read Me.html' need to be executable for you to look at it?" asked Bruner. "Tick, tick, tick, *ding*! No. It does not."
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December's Patch Tuesday finds Vista in bad guys' sights. Plus: Get Office 2007 SP1, get your fix for Flash, and avoid an HP laptop disaster.
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U.S. government office not yet upgrading to Windows Vista, Office 2007, or IE 7.
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Microsoft's operating system from 1.0 to Vista.
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Documents recommended configurations and platforms, pre-installation tasks, recommended procedures, known issues and workarounds, and more.
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Blog: Support for Acrobat and Reader has arrived for Microsoft Vista and Office 2007.
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Microsoft's newly-released Office Live Workspace is a web app that lets you share documents and edit them right in the browser. It would be a revolutionary release if it didn't require Microsoft Office to be installed on your computer as well.
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Slip of the tongue - or the brain Comment The UK Developer launch of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System was pretty impressive, as such things usually are.â¦
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Microsoft did something right with its new Office for Mac 2008 suite.
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The votes are in, and Microsoft's Office OpenXML document format fails to achieve international standard status with the ISO. Microsoft's OOXML -- the native office-doc format for Office 2007 -- needed a two-thirds majority approval among the national bodies eligible to vote on the standard. Ballots came in at 53 percent yes, far short of the 67 percent required.
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The free download enables Office 2007 users to save documents as Adobe PDF or Microsoft XPS formats.
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The successor to Live Communications Server 2005, the component of Microsoft's Office System that handles communication between office workers, has entered private beta testing. Now simply called Office Communications Server 2007, the software integrates VoIP calling with traditional phone setups.
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Some users are getting the massive Office 2007 SP1 update automatically -- even though Microsoft said it would not use Windows' Automatic Updates to push out the  upgrade for months.