The "Welcome to the 2007 Microsoft Office system" dialog box shows up on first launch of the application, event if this is disabled through the Office Customization Tool. The following article… Read More

Run the OCT wizard to create your MSP with your company's settings (you set the level of user interaction here: setup /admin Save the MSP as "1_Custom.msp" Copy the MSP to the "updates" folde… Read More

This note is applied to Visio Professional 2007 SP1. To suppress the following prompt which displays every time you launch the application: **************************************************** … Read More

If you plan to deploy via Group Policy then bear in mind that testing your customised Setup.XML file using MSIEXEC /I to fire off the MSI on a test machine will not work, the MSI will just bomb… Read More

If you don't want the installation to shutdown after use the : Shutdown -a code in your script. SILENT INSTALLATION MODE Read More

In addition to the keys above, the following key appears to suppress the MS Auto-Update prompting: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Internet] "UseOnlineContent"=dword:0… Read More

Pretty standard if done with the Office Customization Tool. We added the following registry keys to get rid of the privacy option popup... - [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\C… Read More