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Deploy

Deploying Microsoft Office 2000 and Windows 2000 Professional     Microsoft Office 2000 and the Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system are the most powerful combination of next-generation productivity solutions that make it easier to build your business PC. This white paper introduces the topic of deploying Office 2000 in a Windows 2000 Platform environment that includes Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Professional.

Deploying Office 2000 Solutions    This white paper is an introduction to the MOD Package and Deployment Wizard. It examines three areas of functionality: packaging a solution for distribution, techniques for physically deploying a packaged solution, and how to manage scripts to save time and effort.

Sample Microsoft Office 2000 Deployment Plan    This sample plan demonstrates how another organization made decisions about implementation in their environment and the steps they took to implement those decisions, thereby helping you reduce the amount of time you spend educating yourself and creating a plan. When you have completed the workbook, you will have a well-documented plan that will help your organization get the most out of your Office 2000 implementation.

Maintain

Beyond Permissions: Securing Your Microsoft FrontPage 2000-Based Web    Microsoft FrontPage 2000 provides administrative tools that let you set permissions and limit access to Web pages that you create and edit on a Web server.

Getting All of a Day's Appointments in Microsoft Outlook 2000    Getting access to a user's appointments for a given day can be complicated by the presence of recurring appointments on the user's calendar, especially if just one of the recurrences does not have an end date. This article shows how to retrieve all the appointments for a given day while avoiding some common pitfalls.

Microsoft Excel 2000 At a Glance - Chapter 14    Using Microsoft Excel 2000, you can easily maintain relationships with other professionals. A single worksheet can become a "window to the world" given Excel's ability to exchange information, analyze data, send files using e-mail, hold meetings, and have Web discussions.

Microsoft FrontPage 2000 At a Glance - Chapter 4    After you've created your Web pages and filled them with text—activities described in earlier sections of this book—you're ready to liven up your pages with images. Microsoft FrontPage 2000 makes this portion of your web publishing work easy.

Microsoft Office 2000 - Extending File Server Document Solutions with Intranet-based Web Solutions    Microsoft Office 2000 provides all the necessary tools for creating a dynamic and collaborative environment where users can be both surveyors and creators of knowledge and information.

Microsoft Office 2000 60-Minute Intranet Kit    This kit makes it easy to build workgroup Web sites by taking advantage of the new Web collaboration features in Office 2000 Premium. Workgroup Webs - internal, team or department level intranet sites - allow team members to share documents, communicate ideas, and analyze information, leading to better decision-making and results.

Microsoft Office 2000 Step by Step Learning Kit - Sample Chapter    In this sample chapter, you will learn how to use templates and forms in Microsoft Word.

Microsoft Outlook 2000 At a Glance - Chapter 3    The e-mail ability of Microsoft Outlook goes beyond that of a simple e-mail client that you can use to send and receive messages, however. Outlook provides numerous tools that make it easy to organize, store, and share fax and e-mail messages.

Office Server Extensions and Web Components Functionality and Scenarios    Based on actual customer experiences, this paper captures some of the technical aspects of Microsoft Office 2000 deployment and deployment planning. This paper will show how Office Web components and Office Server Extensions can provide a solution for publishing and discussing sales information on the company intranet.

Publishing a Microsoft Access-Driven Web Site Using Visual InterDev    This white paper describes server components important for development and production Web servers, how to configure them, the creation of data connections, the most popular ways to deploy Web sites, and some of the issues and problems you may encounter while using Microsoft Access with Visual InterDev to publish data-driven Web sites.

Quick Course in Microsoft FrontPage 2000 - Chapter 4    In this chapter, you take a look at some of the more complex elements you can add to a web. First you create a new web so that you can experiment with a frames page. Next you insert and format a table. Finally, you work with forms. These elements are prevalent in many business-related Web sites. However, the techniques you learn can easily be applied to webs for other types of organizations, as well as personal webs.

Running Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business - Chapter 1    In this chapter, you'll learn what to do with the applications included in Microsoft Office and how to launch them using the Start button. You'll also learn how to switch between Office applications using the Windows taskbar and how to use the Office Help system when you have a question or need a little guidance. After you get the lay of the land, you'll be ready to explore a few essential skills that are useful in all Office applications.

The Power of Intranets: Creating Workgroup Web Sites with Microsoft Office 2000 and FrontPage    Microsoft Office 2000 contains a wealth of new features that will enhance the way people work together using Webs. Whether you are an Office user who accesses or contributes to the Web, a FrontPage user who organizes a Web, or an intranet or Web server administrator, this white paper will introduce you to several powerful new Office 2000 features for your intranet.

Using Outlook Web Access with Windows Load Balancing Service    Microsoft Windows Load Balancing Service (WLBS) allows you to balance server loads for incoming client connections. Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) can be used in conjunction with WLBS to manage the traffic handling of incoming Web client connections to a Microsoft Exchange Server computer.

Support

Microsoft Help Desk for Microsoft Office 2000 - Chapter 3     This document is Chapter 3 of Microsoft Help Desk for Microsoft Office 2000.

Microsoft Outlook 2000 Service Release 1 White Paper    The Microsoft Outlook 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1), included in the Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 release, is an update to Outlook 2000 that provides support for the S/MIME v3 standard. The new release includes enhanced encryption and security features such as security labels and signed receipts.

Tips

How to Save and Back Up Excel 2000 Files Automatically    Learn about how to use Autosave to automatically save and back up Microsoft Excel 2000 files.

Making Links Easier to Maintain    Learn how to maintain links in Microsoft Excel 2000 files.

Managing Relationships in Access 2000 by Using the Keyboard    Learn about some of the key combinations you can use to manage relationships by helping you import two tables, define the relationship between those tables, and then create a query to work with data from both tables.

Microsoft Office Server Extensions: Frequently Asked Questions    Organizations that are upgrading large enterprise portals from Microsoft OfficMicrosoft Office Server Extensions (OSE) are a set of technologies designed to make collaboration centered on Office documents and Web pages easier. With OSE, teams can share ideas more interactively and synthesize team knowledge more quickly.

Microsoft PowerPoint Tips and Tricks - Making Presentations Easy    Learn about tips and tricks that you can use to learn PowerPoint and make presentations easy.

Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Access 2000    Learn about tips and tricks that you can use when working with Microsoft Access 2000.

Using Word's Form Fields to Enter Information    Word offers three types of form fields: text, check box, and dropdown list. Learn about the various tools and options you'll need to understand to use the fields effectively.

Notes from the Field

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Planning Your Migration    This white paper examines concepts, decisions, and procedures by walking you through the whole process of planning, deploying, and migrating to Microsoft Office 2000. It presents the basic information you need to understand migration planning in context.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Migrating Files, Templates, and Custom Solutions    Many organizations rely on Microsoft Office documents in day-to-day operations. To migrate efficiently and painlessly to Office 2000, you have to understand the value of these documents so that you can create a migration plan that meets users' needs, allays their concerns, and protects essential business documents. To help you protect existing files, templates, and custom solutions, this chapter discusses the common issues, provides suggestions for managing them, and explains file conversion methods.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Coexisting with Previous Versions of Office    When migrating to Office 2000, large companies often need to find a way to allow previous versions of Office to coexist. The goal is to allow users of all Office versions to work together with minimal problems until the deployment of Office 2000 is complete. This chapter shows how to do this, how to pick the best strategy for your environment, and how to implement it. It begins by assessing the features and coexistence potential of the Office applications.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Customizing Installation    You can customize an Office 2000 installation to provide users with the tools they need, minimize installation effort at the desktop, tailor the software environment, and reduce helpdesk burden. This chapter discusses the Windows Installer, and then explains how to use it and Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit tools to customize installation, adjust the amount of user interactivity, remove previous versions of Office, and deploy different parts of Office 2000 at different times.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - User Settings    User settings determine how users interact with the Office 2000 applications. With some planning, you can use settings to increase users' efficiency in your environment and to decrease desktop maintenance and support costs. This chapter explains how user settings work, discusses the preferred methods for creating and changing them, and provides instructions for creating, customizing, and distributing them.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Preparing for Distribution    Efficient, cost-effective software distribution reduces total cost of ownership (TCO). To plan for it, you have to inventory essential software and hardware, and this chapter explains how to gather that information with Microsoft Systems Management Server.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Distributing Microsoft Office 2000    When you upgrade existing systems, you face certain basic challenges. If your enterprise is large or small, if you use third-party software distribution tools or the ones that come with Windows or Windows NT, you still have to make basic decisions and perform specific activities in all distributions.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Deploying Outlook 2000    Managing and scheduling messages and contacts—critical for most enterprises—can be handled by users and organizations through the Outlook 2000 messaging infrastructure. This chapter explains how to plan, execute, and optimize Outlook 2000 deployment.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Multinational Deployment    Office 2000 has more options for deploying in multiple languages than did previous versions. By examining how to decide whether to use the MultiLanguage Packs or the localized version, then explaining how to deploy software and settings efficiently, this chapter helps you create a multinational-deployment plan that meets your needs but requires minimal IT effort.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Network Bandwidth Considerations    This white paper documents network statistics that you can refer to when choosing the most appropriate Office 2000 deployment methods for your organization. These statistics were gathered by performing a variety of Microsoft Office 2000 installations over a network and capturing network statistics.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Customizing Alerts and Help    In addition to more than 5,000 alerts and 50 MB of compressed Help files, Office 2000 contains methods you can use to customize these systems. This chapter shows why, where, and how to customize, illustrating the process with occasional examples based on the fictional Northwind company.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Deploying Office 2000 on Windows Terminal Server    Deploying Office 2000 on Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition helps contain support costs by simplifying client configurations and making more efficient use of hardware. Users still have access to all Office 2000 features.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Office Server Extensions    The deeper you can extend Web technologies into departments or workgroups, the greater the benefits you will derive from them. Office Server Extensions (OSE) facilitate collaboration by helping users get Office documents onto the intranet quickly and easily.

Office 2000 Notes from the Field - Office 2000 and Windows 2000    This white paper discusses how to deploy Office 2000 in a Windows 2000 environment that includes Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Professional. It concentrates on large organizations to help you understand their special challenges, and to demonstrate the advantages of several built-in deployment and installation tools and methods. It was written while Windows 2000 was in beta release.