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Office 2007 Compatibility Pack

23 03 2007

Now that Office 2007 is upon us with a
new file format, how is everyone else going to cope? Well Microsoft has freely released
a file format converter which can be downloaded here.
Esteemed authorities such as Gartner have warned
companies
to deploy Office 2007 file converters NOW, but how can you do that on
a corporate network? Microsoft only distribute the converters in an executable, how
can I deploy that using Group Policy?

Well Mr M Keadle provided the solution for
me. When you run the exe it extracts an MSI (as well as a bunch of other files) into
the C:\Program Files\MSECache\O2007Cnv\1033 directory.
If you copy these files to a network deployment location you can then use Group
Policy! What I don't understand is why Microsoft themselves wouldn't publish such
a solution (or even a single MSI)?

categories Published under: Business, Microsoft



My name is Scott Savage and welcome to my blog. I live in Sydney, Australia. I am interested in CRM software and how it relates to a variety of industries. My blog covers these applications, as well as a whole variety of random ramblings. Enjoy and comment away!








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