Microsoft KB Archive/271672

= OFF2000: &quot;Deploying Microsoft Office 2000: Notes from the Field&quot; Book Online =

Article ID: 271672

Article Last Modified on 1/29/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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SUMMARY
You can read any or all of the chapters from Deploying Microsoft Office 2000: Notes from the Field, a book based on Microsoft Consulting Services experiences in the field, at the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/previous/notes/default.htm

The following is a brief overview of each chapter of Deploying Microsoft Office 2000: Notes from the Field.



Chapter 1: Planning Your Migration
Walk through the creation of a complete migration plan to find the basic information that you need to plan an Office 2000 migration for your organization.

Chapter 2: Migrating Files, Templates, and Custom Solutions
This chapter includes information about migrating files, templates, and custom solutions. Moving to Office 2000 involves far fewer file migration issues than earlier upgrades did; this chapter helps you deal with the issues that remain.

Chapter 3: Coexisting with Previous Versions of Office
During deployment, your users will run a variety of versions of Office. That can get complicated. This chapter shows how to assess coexistence issues in your environment, pick the best strategy, and then implement it.

Chapter 4: Customizing an Office 2000 Installation
Customize your Office 2000 installation to provide the tools that users need, minimize installation time, and reduce the burden on your help desk.

Chapter 5: User Settings
Find out about user settings and the preferred methods for creating, changing, and distributing them.

Chapter 6: Preparing for Office 2000 Distribution
Discover how to compile an accurate inventory of your organization's software and hardware in order to distribute Office 2000 efficiently. This chapter explains how to gather that information by using Microsoft Systems Management Server.

Chapter 7: Distributing Microsoft Office 2000
Learn more about the three basic Office 2000 distribution media: Microsoft Systems Management Server, network administrative share, and CD. Also learn how to choose the method or combination of methods that will serve you best.

Chapter 8: Deploying Outlook 2000
You can deploy Microsoft Outlook 2000 before, after, or with Office 2000. Find tips on how to plan, execute, and optimize your Outlook 2000 deployment by using tools that are available in the Office Resource Kit.

Chapter 9: Multinational Deployment
Explore your options for an international deployment, and then create a deployment plan that meets your needs while requiring minimal information-technology (IT) effort.

Chapter 10: Network Bandwidth Considerations
Find out how network load is impacted as Office features are installed. The statistics in this chapter will help you to choose which deployment method is best for your organization.

Chapter 11: Customizing Alerts and Help
Your organization can customize the alerts and help files in Office 2000 to direct employees to internal support resources, for example. This chapter shows why, where, and how to customize the built-in support in Office.

Chapter 12: Deploying Office 2000 on Windows Terminal Server
Learn how to deploy and customize Office 2000 on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition.

Chapter 13: Deploying and Managing Office Server Extensions
Find out how to deploy and manage Microsoft Office Server Extensions in a corporate environment. This chapter explains how to take full advantage of the new collaboration features of Office 2000 while preventing unauthorized access and loss of data.

Chapter 14: Office 2000 and Windows 2000
Get information about how to deploy Office 2000 in a large corporate environment that includes Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional.

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