Microsoft® Windows® Group Policy Guide

Summary

As you’ve seen in this chapter, there are many ways to work with and manage Microsoft Office through Group Policy, and deploying Office through policy is only the beginning. Not only can you use policy to deploy Office, but you can also use transforms to customize the installation so that individual users and groups get custom configurations that are tailored to the way they use Office. Using a special set of Administrative Templates, which are available for Office 2000, Office XP, and Office 2003, you can control and configure Office features in much the same way as you control Windows features. You can also modify the setup of previously deployed applications using custom maintenance files.