Introduction

This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills that they need to effectively deploy Microsoft Office 2007. Specifically students learn how to prepare and plan for the Office 2007 deployment, how to build and customize the Office 2007 installation, and how to deploy Office 2007 throughout their environment. Students also learn about the Office 2007 setup and multilingual architecture.

Audience

The audience of this course consists of IT Professionals and technical decision makers with the skills to successfully plan, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot desktop environments that support the Microsoft Office system.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Experience deploying, managing, and supporting Windows client systems.
• Experience deploying, managing, and supporting Microsoft Office system technologies.
• Familiarity with standard client and application deployment methods such as Group Policy, Remote Installation Services (RIS), disk imaging, and Systems Management Server (SMS).

Important: This learning product will be most useful to people who are already working in the job role of a desktop specialist and who intend to use their new skills and knowledge on the job immediately after training..

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will gain the skills to:

• Prepare the environment to deploy and install Microsoft Office 2007.
• Analyze file compatibility and interoperability issues between Office 2007 and previous versions of Microsoft Office.
• Install Microsoft Office 2007 using the local installation source.
• Customize an Office 2007 installation and deployment.
• Select an appropriate Office 2007 deployment method based upon the organization's desktop management technique.
• Deploy Office 2007 to a multilingual network environment.

Course Outline

Module 1: Preparing to Deploy Microsoft Office 2007

In this module, students learn the benefits of and system requirements needed to deploy Microsoft Office 2007. Students are also introduced to a number of resources and tools that will assist in the deployment of the 2007 Microsoft Office system client products.

Module 2: Planning for a Microsoft Office 2007 Deployment

In this module, students learn the benefits and deployment considerations of the Office 2007 Open XML file format. The Microsoft Office Migration Planning Manager is also introduced, which helps organizations analyze and identify potential file conversion or compatibility issues.

Module 3: Understanding the Office 2007 Setup Architecture

In this module, students learn the benefits and considerations for using and deploying the local installation source, and the general setup sequence of events for Office 2007.

Module 4: Customizing the Office 2007 Installation

In this module, students learn how to customize an installation and deployment using Office 2007 customization tools.

Module 5: Selecting an Office 2007 Deployment Method

In this module, students are introduced to a number of deployment methods based upon various management techniques. Students then focus upon how to deploy Office 2007 using the Active Directory Group Policy method.

Module 6: Office 2007 Multilingual Architecture

In this module, students learn how Office 2007 addresses a multilingual environment.

Course Materials

The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other necessary materials for this class.

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