Office IT Pro Blog
News and tips for IT professionals who plan, implement, and maintain Office.
The Office 2010 Beta Resource Kit library is now available as a downloadable compiled Help (.chm)...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 02/10/2010
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 (Beta) is an agent-less tool designed to...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 02/05/2010
Administrators can use the following tools for Office 2010 to evaluate application compatibility...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 01/21/2010
Will you need to deploy Office 2010 with multiple languages? We have published six new and improved...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 01/19/2010
If you have been using Outlook Hotmail Connector to access your Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 01/12/2010
The Office Customization Tool is part of the Setup program and is the primary tool that...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 01/05/2010
Do you ever wish you could order up content from the Office Resource Kit in a professionally bound...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 12/17/2009
Hello, I'm posting a draft copy of this article in order to receive your feedback before the article...
Author: RossC Date: 12/14/2009
In the TechNet article “Changes in Office 2010,” we have removed the discussion about...
Author: DarrylMo Date: 12/11/2009
Processors that are 64-bit are quickly becoming the standard for systems ranging from servers to...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 12/10/2009
Since the November 18 launch of the Microsoft Office 2010 public beta, many of you have installed...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 12/07/2009
Office 2010 provides new features and improvements that help IT administrators configure, validate,...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 11/30/2009
Wouldn’t you prefer looking at a nice poster over reading a wall of text? We have some posters...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 11/24/2009
If you upgrade from Outlook 2007 to Outlook 2010, your .pst files will auto-magically be imported...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 11/20/2009
Yes, this is why we’ve been so quiet lately – we haven’t been napping all these...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 11/17/2009
Here is the official word folks!Today, Microsoft is releasing the public beta of Office 2010,...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 11/17/2009
On Tuesday, November 10th, 2009, Microsoft released security updates for Microsoft Office products...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 11/12/2009
On Tuesday, October 13th, 2009, Microsoft released security updates for Microsoft Office products to...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 10/15/2009
The Office 2000 SR-1 administrator updates (O2KSR1aDL.exe) is no longer available on the Microsoft...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 09/16/2009
On September 2nd, 2009, Microsoft released updates to the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 09/10/2009
If you are an IT administrator who manages Office desktops in your organization, you will find...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 09/08/2009
On Tuesday, August 11th, 2009, Microsoft released three security updates for Office Web Components...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 08/18/2009
We recently published a new article describing the options available to deploy different Microsoft...
Author: RossC Date: 08/14/2009
On Tuesday, July 14th, 2009, Microsoft released a security update for Microsoft Office Publisher...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 07/16/2009
The Office team has just launched the Office 2007 ribbon and toolbar portal...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 07/10/2009
From time to time, we receive comments on our articles asking a variant of the question,...
Author: Andrea Bichsel - MSFT Date: 07/08/2009
Document Inspector--a privacy feature in the 2007 Office system--is a convenient tool for removing...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/30/2009
In order for servers to recognize the new file formats in the 2007 Office system, you will need to...
Author: Andrea Bichsel - MSFT Date: 06/30/2009
On Tuesday, June 9th, 2009, Microsoft released 17 security updates for Office to address 11 security...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 06/17/2009
If you're in the process of planning an Office deployment, have a look at the newly published...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 06/10/2009
Beginning August 1, 2009, Microsoft will discontinue support for the Office Update Web site (at...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 06/08/2009
Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering has announced that extended support for Microsoft Office 2000...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 05/20/2009
The system requirements on the download page for the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 05/15/2009
On Tuesday, May 12th, 2009, Microsoft released 7 security updates for Office. The updates address...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 05/12/2009
Updated 2007 Office system Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization Tool available
Microsoft has released updated Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX, ADML) and Office...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 04/30/2009
Microsoft has released 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) which provides the latest...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 04/29/2009
Every day I run into someone that asks me about the “Ribbon” and how it came to be....
Author: Karina Meik Date: 04/16/2009
Hello, my name is Ben and I'm a technical writer on the Office Resource Kit team. My article on...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/04/2009
Cumulative update packages for the 2007 Microsoft Office core suite applications and for 2007 Microsoft Office servers: February, 2009
Microsoft released a set of cumulative update packages for the 2007 Office system on February 24,...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 04/01/2009
The Outlook 2007 Security Hash Generator Tool is used to generate a hash value to identify your...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 03/23/2009
If you are looking for resources for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, check the Mactopia Web site at...
Author: PattyN_ Date: 03/19/2009
Update April 6th: The full article is finally available on TechNet - Customize the 2007 Office...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 03/13/2009
The following security updates were released on March 10, 2009. For more information and to download...
Author: Andrea Bichsel - MSFT Date: 03/11/2009
On the off chance that you are considering deploying the 2007 Microsoft Office system to work with a...
Author: Catherine Watson Date: 03/06/2009
Here's a useful site that showcases tools and technologies for assessing your infrastructure and...
Author: Andrea Bichsel - MSFT Date: 03/05/2009
IT Showcase just release a new article about how Microsoft uses SCCM to manage desktop updates. Some...
Author: Andrea Bichsel - MSFT Date: 03/05/2009
3/1/09 Update - View the press release: 1,500 Global Tech Professionals Take Center Stage at 2009...
Author: Andrea Bichsel - MSFT Date: 02/27/2009
Thank-you everyone for your feedback. I'm now posting the most recent draft copy of this article....
Author: RossC Date: 02/26/2009
Ok, you can use Help|About (in previous versions, anyway--in Office 2007, you click the Office...
Author: Andrea Bichsel - MSFT Date: 02/26/2009