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block users from retrieving office installation key
I am about to give active directory domain users access to a Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Server. The server has Office 2010 installed.
Is it possible for the users to retrieve the ...
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How to open Office documents in Browser
I have an intranet where I want to configure all Excel/Word documents to open in the browser window. How do I change this setting for all users?
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Domain migration results in MS Office running installer every time
My workplace is migrating multiple departments, each with their own AD domain into one combined one. For the most part this is all ok, however we've run into a problem with MS Office 2003 installs on ...
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Count open Office Word Files
I have troubles to find a solution for my problem (I am a really beginner of powershell).
I have to count the Office files which are open on a server.
My situation:
A Service account is connected ...
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hardlink of ms word file getting hidden and not updated
I created a docx file in windows 7 with some text in it (initial.docx) and then I created a hardlink to it:
mklink /H new.docx initial.docx
I open new.docx and I can see the text that I initially ...
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Windows 7 Benchmarking Tools That Drive Microsoft Office Applications
Are there any benchmarking tools that can actually drive MS Office applications in Windows 7 rather than just running various synthetic loads?
I'm looking to measure the impact on user experience ...
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Remove Excel Add-In program installed by user from other windows account
I developed an add-in for excel and the first version I send an email with the .exe file to users install (The system center was not working at that moment).
Now I need to uninstall the add-in (from ...
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Excel Spreadsheet for Barcode Scanning [closed]
I've been asked by our warehouse guy to help him with an excel spreadsheet to increase his productivity. The problem is, I'm not what you would call an "excel expert". What he wants sounds very ...
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How to apply IE SSL MS Office document fix to entire web server?
I've several areas on my web application where the user is allowed to download Microsoft Office documents. I need to apply the fix listed here
Web sites that want to allow this type of operation ...
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Where can I download Microsoft Office? [closed]
Here at our company, we've lost our install CDs for Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007. We have, however, still our volume license key.
Where can I download MS Office Pro Plus 2007?
Microsoft's ...
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Can I turn off Office Auto Save feature using ARD?
I have around 300 OSX desktops, and I'm not looking forward to having to walk around to each one to turn off MS autosave, can this be done using Apple Remote Desktop and a script?
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xlsx and sharpoint 2003 problems
Having a problem where xlsx documents arent opening with clients default application excel, they have to save them first before opening them. the excel icon on files in sharepoint is now a windows ...
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Office 2007/2010 My Places Bar
I'm in the process of rolling out Outlook 2010 to all the users in our organization in our Citrix farm environment. Its going pretty smoothly except for one snagging problem. When users try to attach ...
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Trouble with Microsoft Word 2008 and AFP Sharing
Currently, I have a central server that is accessed by many users through AFP sharing. Sometimes, multiple users may have the same Word document open, while other times it may just be one user and one ...
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Slow opening of Excel files on the network
This week, we had an issue with Excel files opening slowly on the network. Some, despite being only 21K over 1000BT, took as much as 5 minutes to open. They opened fine locally.
Someone beat me to ...
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Powerpoint Printing = Power Point Crash Mac Office 2008
If powerpoint trys to print on one desktop - it is guaranteed to crash. Always crashes, never fails to crash.
How can I go about diagnosing this issue? I've been advised to check out the print ...
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Microsoft photo editor - No file format information can be found in the registry (registry policy)
I have Windows Server 2003 and my users are running XP. When I installed Microsoft office 2000 the photo editor said "No file format information can be found in the registry". I Googled it and I found ...
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How can I get Microsoft Office running perfectly on Ubuntu? [closed]
I have a number of users in our office. They do 90% of their work in the browser using Google Docs and a number of other online tools. I would prefer to deploy Ubuntu to them as it does not require ...
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Rolling out Office 2007: How to handle macros and VB scripts
I am about to roll out Office 2007 to 1600 users. Most of it seems straight forward, but this client is particularly worried about macros and VB scripts not working. How do you migrate them in the ...
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Which part of my OS is bringing up this OpenCurPrinter dialog?
One of our Enterprisey systems has a long-running batch process that sometimes get interrupted by the following popup dialog:
OpenCurPrinter: printer: \\FS3\HP30351st, port: Ne00:, drive: winspool
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Outlook Web Access Mobile Options
Above are screen shots of Outlook Web Access options for two different users, why is that one user has Mobile Devices option enabled and other does not. Both users access same Web Mail.
Is it just ...
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Access 2010 issues opening Access 2000-2007 database
I recently upgrades 3 computers to recent HP notebooks, Windows 7 and Office 2010.
However, the company works with several (old) access databases (varying from 2 to 60Mb in size).
Opening these on ...
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Office documents on intranet all requiring second login and can't pass auth? Disable webdav?
I am not sure what is going on, but recently all the Office documents on our intranet get prompted a second time for login and according to the error logs it looks like it's trying to use webdav to ...
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Office 2007 trial [closed]
We are building a test platform for Citrix XenApp. I am looking for the trial of Office 2007. Since it's for 30 days and only for testing the xenapp system, I don't want to upgrade to the 2010 ...
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Extract custom icons from Word 2000 template
I'm upgrading some custom templates/macros from Word 2000 to Word 2010. There are custom icons that are embedded in the .dot template files. I'd like to use those same icons for my new Ribbon - does ...
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MS Office and SQL Server Mail Merge Issue
We have a third party application with a SQL Server (2008 R2) back-end that allows the user to select person records and use this selection to as a data source for a MS Word mail merge. This process ...
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How do I install office 2010 with the Serial Key embedded?
I am looking to upgrade roughly 150 clients from office 2007 to office 2010. As we have a corporate serial key I'm not really want to install this by entering in the key manually by myself every ...
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Idempotent Powershell word search/replace across documents with headers, change tracking, etc
I've found one or two guides to doing a word search and replace across multiple documents with powershell. They work well on simple documents. However, the script ignores text in headers and ...
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How to copy marked lines in a Textpad…?
I had exported the table structure of my live Database.And open it with help of Textpad.It is very huge file and i want to copy a particular lines from the textpad.I mean,i want to copy marked lines ...
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Prevent Authentication Prompt When Streaming Office Documents
I have an issue where when streaming office documents from SQL Server, an authentication dialog prompts for credentials even though the user has been authenticated via basic auth in the browser. ...
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Is is possible to use Outlook with an Exchange server that has limited publicly accessible resources?
Does anyone know if it is possible to get outlook (partially) working with an exchange service with only makes Webmail and ActiveSync publicly accessible?
Thanks,
Sean W.
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How to determine what has a lock on a particular file in Windows?
I see that a file has a lock on it. How could I find out the cause and root of this?
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Microsoft Office and Sharepoint authentication
I'm evaluating the ability of SharePoint to meet the document management needs of my team. I'm running into some issues that make it feel very "clumsy," and believe it may be due to an incorrect ...
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Amazon machine images and licensing [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I browsed Amazon Machine Images (AMI) available at Amazon for using VM in the cloud, and found some machines ...
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Cannot find Registry Setting for Office Shared Templates
We have our Templates for Office 2003 located in a shared location \servername\Templates$
This is also the location of our Word Startup Folder. Both settings are set in a User Group Policy.
This has ...
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How can I create an Office “all-in-one” DVD with all Office applications?
I have the DVDs (or downloaded ISOs, or archives) for the various Office products: stand-alone programs like Word and Excel, the full Office suite, and applications that are only bundled alone ...
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Migrate reports from MS Access to OOo Base
I'm currently looking at upgrading our office machines from Office XP to Office 2010. For most users the standard edition is fine but just a few of us use Access. There are only a couple of standalone ...
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Terminal Server 2008 - Slow File open dialog in Office 2003
I have yet another small issue that annoys me everyday in our Terminal Server environment.
It seems when logging into Terminal Server users report the initial File | Open or File | Save As from ...
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Double Click to open Office docs is slow, File -> Open is fast
I have 2 unique networks. They both share similar architecture:
Windows 2003 SBS SP2
Running Symantec Endpoint
Running Symantec Information Foundation
Shared drives off a data partition
Clients ...
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No Office XP Updates since installed Compatibility Pack from WSUS
Hey folks,
we got a bunch of boxes, running Windows XP and Office XP. Since we installed the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack, Office XP does not get updates anymore.
Our WSUS provides Office 2007 ...
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Configure IE to use MS Word Viewer as .doc viewer on Citrix server with Office installed
We have a small number of citrix servers that all have office installed. Only a small subset of users have access to office. Everyone is set to open office documents with the free viewers on the ...
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Excel file growing huge (>150 MB)
There is one particular Excel file that is used by a number of employees at my company. It is edited from both Excel 2003 and 2007, with the "Sharing" feature turned on to allow multiple writers at ...
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Microsoft Office “Read-only” warning not appearing on Samba shares on Mac OS X Server
some of my users don't get the "read-only" warning (but "read-only" does appear on the title bar and the document is indeed opened read-only) when opening Office 2007 documents already opened by ...
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Does removing admin rights really mitigate 90% of Critical Windows 7 vulnerabilities found to date? as reported by beyondtrust.com
Beyondtrust.com published a report, somewhat recently, claiming among other quite compelling things, "90% of Critical Microsoft Windows 7 Vulnerabilities are Mitigated by Eliminating Admin Rights"
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MS Word - Keeps requesting user to save Normal template
We have Small Business Server 2008 setup on a couple of our clients networks and we have the following issue.
Whenever they logon, Microsoft word automatically opens and requests them to save their ...
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How secure is the encryption used by Microsoft Office 2007?
I've read various articles about Microsoft's Office 2007 encryption and from what I gather 2007 is secure using all default options due to it using AES, and 2000 and 2003 can be configured secure by ...
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How to use Group Policy force Office 2007 to save in Office 2003 format?
We have a few newer machines running Office 2007, but most of our users are still on Office 2003 (or even older versions) and I've had complaints from those users about receiving documents they can't ...
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Save As… causes XP MSOffice 2003/2007 Applications to hang
Basically anytime a user on my internal network has an MSOffice application open on a Windows XP machine and does anything that would open a File dialog (i.e. Save As..., Open..., etc.), it causes the ...
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User given a login prompt when closing Word documents after viewing them in IE7
When using IE7 to view Word documents on our CRM system (an ASP.NET 2.0 application running on Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 and using Windows authenticaton) I'm finding that a prompt appears when the ...
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Need to remotely determine what version of Microsoft Office is installed
I need to find a way to determine what version, if any, of Microsoft Office is installed on every computer on our company network. The best idea I've had was just running a script that searches for ...
