Software Deployment

Apply what erm has suggested above via group policy preferences and enable loopback processing to apply this to the computer.

ORIGINAL: CordlezToaster

Does anybody know how to stop office 2010 asking for the Users Name and Intials on first load.
I have used the office 2010 oct tool for creating a silent install but whenever a user logs into the machine they get prompted for Name and Initials.

I understand that it can be set via a reg key under HKCU but thats not global and does not cover the next person who logs in.

Any ideas?

Cheers




You could put a "reg add (regkey) %username%" into the HKCU RunOnceEx of the Default User account...

Unfortunately, that won't work. HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT is only used when creating new local accounts: domain accounts logging into a machine don't use it at all.

Thanks for the response guys.

Its not a hassle if the users have to do it, its just these are lab machines being used by students that may see upto 10-15 different kids a day.
Its more of an annoyance.

I can get around it by putting the regkeys in the login script but i was hoping not to do that, and that there was an easier way.

Hi,

Just out of curiousity....I remember someone posting details of this for Office 2007 such as:

All in HKCU
Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo
Value Name: UserInitials
Value Data: User
Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo
Value Name: UserName
Value Data: Authorised User
Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo
Value Name: Company
Value Data: Your Company

It seemed to work for me as I added these in the OCT patch file creation for Office Pro Plus 2007...given that this is a common Office reg path...could this work for Office 2010...?

don't have time to test now, but I'm pretty sure I was able to do this with the OCT with no custom actions

ORIGINAL: aogilmor

don't have time to test now, but I'm pretty sure I was able to do this with the OCT with no custom actions


Correct me if im wrong but it will work for the user who installs the application but the next user who logs onto that machine will get prompted.

Unless you have found a way of doing it.

See post #2!

Hi,

If you know the registry key HKCU you want to change, you can use following batch file which will change this key in all users account and also the .DEFAUL too...
You can change the REG_SZ by REG_DWORD or others values, if you want...
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@echo off
setlocal

set regcmd=%SystemRoot%\system32\reg.exe
set keypath= <- put here the path of your registry key (eg : Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\ ) ->
set valuename1= <- put here the name of your registry key (eg : Name ) ->


:: update current user
set hive=HKCU
set key=%hive%\%keypath%
%regcmd% add "%key%" /v %valuename1% /d "<- put here the value of your registry key->" /t REG_SZ /f >nul

:: update all other users on the computer, using a temporary hive
set hive=HKLM\TempHive
set key=%hive%\%keypath%

:: set current directory to "Documents and Settings"
cd /d %USERPROFILE%\..
:: enumerate all folders
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('dir /b /ad') do (if exist ".\%%i\NTUSER.DAT" call :AddRegValue "%%i" ".\%%i\NTUSER.DAT")

endlocal
:: echo.
:: echo Finished...
:: echo.
:: pause

goto :EOF

:AddRegValue
set upd=Y
if /I %1 equ "All Users" set upd=N
if /I %1 equ "LocalService" set upd=N
if /I %1 equ "NetworkService" set upd=N

if %upd% equ Y (
%regcmd% load %hive% %2 >nul 2>&1
%regcmd% add "%key%" /v %valuename1% /d "<- put here the value of your registry key->" /t REG_SZ /f >nul 2>&1
%regcmd% unload %hive% >nul 2>&1
)

ORIGINAL: VBScab

I know. It's such a chore for poor users, having to type their name and initials ONCE! Doesn't anyone understand how BUSY THEY ARE?!?



Say the first time you use Word, you double-clicked a document in Explorer or it was launched by another application, the user name/initials dialog prevents the file being opened. Not the best user experience.

In the old Office 2003 Customization Wizard, you could call a script per user to apply the required registry settings but that doesn't seem to be possible with the 2007/2010 tools.

that doesn't seem to be possible with the 2007/2010 toolsAs far as I can recall, you can still customise any registry data with the 2007/2010 tool. I can't recall what the screen is called but, from memory, it was screamingly obvious what its function was.

Unless anyone has any better suggestions, I am going to pre-populate the registry with generic values then apply indivudual values by calling my script usign Active Setup.

ORIGINAL: VBScab

that doesn't seem to be possible with the 2007/2010 toolsAs far as I can recall, you can still customise any registry data with the 2007/2010 tool. I can't recall what the screen is called but, from memory, it was screamingly obvious what its function was.


Yes you can and it might be possible to populate username using the %USERNAME% environment variable (and setting the reg key to unexpanded string type) but you need to apply some logic to extract initals.

ORIGINAL: CordlezToaster

Thanks for the response guys.

Its not a hassle if the users have to do it, its just these are lab machines being used by students that may see upto 10-15 different kids a day.
Its more of an annoyance.

I can get around it by putting the regkeys in the login script but i was hoping not to do that, and that there was an easier way.


If this is just for use by students you can populate the regkeys with something generic.
You can create the key and just import it into your default install so there is no need to run it at login.

ORIGINAL: nortonl

Unless anyone has any better suggestions, I am going to pre-populate the registry with generic values then apply indivudual values by calling my script usign Active Setup.


Just to confirm this method worked for me. I also had to set the Active Setup key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER to be deleted in Office Customization Wizard so that Active Setup runs again if it was run before Office first use for the current user.

You are on the right track. Use HKCU through Group Policy. I used the User Config --> Preferences --> Registry to accomplish the task. The main drawback is the I had to use %username% for both initials and User Name. We are in a stateless VDI environment and do not use roaming profiles, so I had to come up with a method to not annoy the user at each logon. Hope this resolves your issue.

Here are the keys used from the settings page. You can decide on if they should only be applied once.
Collection: Registry Wizard Values/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Office/Common/UserInfohide

Registry item: UserInfohide
Generalhide
Action Update
PropertiesHive HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo

Registry item: UserNamehide
Generalhide
Action Update
PropertiesHive HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo
Value name UserName
Value type REG_SZ
Value data %username%

Registry item: UserInitialshide
Generalhide
Action Update
PropertiesHive HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo
Value name UserInitials
Value type REG_SZ
Value data %username%

Registry item: CompanyNamehide
Generalhide
Action Update
PropertiesHive HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo
Value name CompanyName
Value type REG_SZ
Value data YOUR COMPANY NAME HERE

I know. It's such a chore for poor users, having to type their name and initials ONCE! Doesn't anyone understand how BUSY THEY ARE?!?

Personally, I'd go the traditional route of creating a CurrentUser feature containing the registry setting and moving an existing feature containing an advertised shortcut to become a child of that feature but I know many people aren't fans of futzing with Office in that way. Alternatively, you could use ActiveSetup.

BTW, surely this only applies to a minute fraction of your users, i.e. those getting a newly-built machine? Wouldn't all the others have their current setting migrated?