Office Config Control on TermServ

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I need Help changing MS Word> Tools> Options> File Locations for allusers on TermServices such that they all see the same common workgroup Templates location upon starting word on Term Services..

I'm running MS 2000 Server SP4 wTSE loaded on the servers. I've gone through the process of setting up Office to run in a Windows Term Server environment and after the fact I've discovered I need to tweak the location all users read the "Workgroup Template files" for Word... when they are running word off of the Term Server.

I thought this was dictated via the individual Users Normal.dot files but that doesn't appear to be the case. I then thought modififying the HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\General\SharedTemplates key... to the desired location -> to no avail..

Also when a new user first signs in to TS where does the Profile & Settings (registry or otherwise) get duplicated from on the TS

Any and all help on this would be appreciated

Oliver
 
The HKEY_USER\.DEFAULT hive contains the Default User profile.
This is a template that is used to create a user profile when a
new users logs on for the first time.
So by modifying this, you have fixed the location of the Shared
templates for new users, but not for existing users.

What you have to do to fix existing profile is to edit the
individual HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common
\General\SharedTemplates key

One way to do that is to configure the settings for one user
account, export the key with regedit into a regfile, and then put
a command into your users login script on the TS with something
like:

regedit /s office.reg

This imports the registry key into their HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive.

Check this for details:
310516 - HOW TO: Add, Modify, or Delete Registry Subkeys and
Values by Using a Registration Entries (.reg) File
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310516

Another approach is to use Group Policies. Doesn't Office come
with a number of adm templates, that you can load into mmc? I
believe that you can configure this type of settings there as
well, and it is easier to maintain. Here's more info:
323639 - HOW TO: Create Custom Administrative Templates in Windows
2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323639
 
It's best to do this with a transform (MST File) which you can create with the Custom Installation Wizard from the Office Resource Kit, however this is done before deploying office

In Group Policy -> User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2003 (or your version) ->Shared Paths -> Workgroup Templates Path

If you don't have this Admin Template loaded it can be added via "right-clicking" on Administrative Templates and choosing "Add/Remove Templates

Patrick Rous
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Serve
http://www.workthin.co

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I need Help changing MS Word> Tools> Options> File Locations for allusers on TermServices such that they all see the same common workgroup Templates location upon starting word on Term Services..

I'm running MS 2000 Server SP4 wTSE loaded on the servers. I've gone through the process of setting up Office to run in a Windows Term Server environment and after the fact I've discovered I need to tweak the location all users read the "Workgroup Template files" for Word... when they are running word off of the Term Server.

I thought this was dictated via the individual Users Normal.dot files but that doesn't appear to be the case. I then thought modififying the HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\General\SharedTemplates key... to the desired location -> to no avail..

Also when a new user first signs in to TS where does the Profile & Settings (registry or otherwise) get duplicated from on the TS

Any and all help on this would be appreciated

Oliver
 
Vera & Patrick thanks for the tricks very helpful indeed...

I think we'll be using the reg hack.

-Oliver
 
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