Deploying 2007 Microsoft® Office System Client Products

These 6 2-hour courses are part of a collection of courses that teaches about deploying and installing 2007 Microsoft Office System client applications. These courses are for both Desktop Specialists who deploy and configure Office, as well as Technical Decision Makers who are responsible for purchasing and adoption decisions.

Topics covered in the collection include:
Windows® Imaging Format and ImageX
Planning and Customizing Client Deployment
Deploying in multinlingual environments

These courses help you prepare for exam 70-624.

Student prerequisites:
Experience deploying, managing, and supporting either Windows client systems or Office System technologies.
Familiarity with standard client and application deployment methods, such as RIS, imaging, and SMS.
Familiarity with networking fundamentals.
Familiarity with Active Directory® directory service.
Familiarity with the 2007 Office System and Windows Vista™.

Course 5231: Fundamentals of Microsoft® Windows® Imaging Format and ImageX

Description:
In this 2-hour course, you learn about the fundamentals of deploying the 2007 Microsoft Office System client applications using Windows Imaging Format and ImageX technologies. Additionally, you will also learn about the tools used for deploying images. In the lab, you build and deploy the 2007 Office System to clients by using the skills learned in this course.

This course helps you prepare for exam 70-624.

Student prerequisites:

Experience deploying, managing, and supporting either Windows® client systems or Office System technologies.
Familiarity with standard client and application deployment methods, such as RIS, imaging, and SMS.
Familiarity with networking fundamentals.
Familiarity with Active Directory® directory service.
Familiarity with the 2007 Office System and Windows Vista™.
 
Objectives:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
Plan for the file-based image format.
Describe how file based imaging works.
Describe the new file-based image format.
Describe the benefits of file-based imaging.
Describe the prerequisites for running ImageX
Deploy Images by using ImageX.
Windows Preinstallation Environment installed on reference.
Drivers added to images.
Image applied to test computers.
Testing Windows PE.
Describe considerations for WIM deployment.
Describe the process for creating and deploying ImageX images.
Describe the command line options for ImageX.
 
Course 5232: Planning for 2007 Microsoft® Office System Client Deployment

Description:
In this 2-hour course, you learn how to plan for deploying the 2007 Microsoft Office System in your organization. You learn about the benefits of the new Microsoft Office System File Format, as well as how it differs from previous formats. Additionally you learn about various tools you can use to analyze your current environment and migrate existing Office documents. In the lab, you use these tools in a migration scenario.

This course helps you prepare for exam 70-624.

Student prerequisites:
Experience deploying, managing, and supporting either Windows® client systems or Office System technologies.
Familiarity with standard client and application deployment methods, such as RIS, imaging, and SMS.
Familiarity with networking fundamentals.
Familiarity with Active Directory® directory service.
Familiarity with the 2007 Office System and Windows Vista™.
 
Objectives:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
Prepare for the Microsoft Office System File Format.
Describe the benefits of the Microsoft Office system file format.
Describe the components of the Microsoft Office system file format.
Describe the considerations and methods used to interoperate with earlier versions of the Microsoft Office system.
Assess the user environment for the Microsoft Office system.
Describe considerations that affect the deployment of the Microsoft Office system client.
Describe the functionality of the Office Migration Planning Manager.
Describe the purpose of the Office File Scanner.
Explain how to provision and use the Reporting Database.
Describe how to obtain and read results of an OMPM analysis.
Describe how to use the Microsoft Office File Conversion Tool to convert files to the Microsoft Open XML format.
 
Course 5233: Customizing the 2007 Microsoft® Office System Client Installation

Description:
In this 2-hour course you learn how to customize a 2007 Microsoft Office System installation. You learn about the different options and tools for customization, how to create a customized network installation point, and how to configure Office through group policy. In the lab, you will create a customized Office installation.

This course helps you prepare for exam 70-624.

Student prerequisites:
Experience deploying, managing, and supporting either Windows® client systems or Office System technologies.
Familiarity with standard client and application deployment methods, such as RIS, imaging, and SMS.
Familiarity with networking fundamentals.
Familiarity with Active Directory® directory service.
Familiarity with the 2007 Office System and Windows Vista™.
 
Objectives:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
Configure a customized Microsoft Office system installation.
Describe the options available to customize a Microsoft Office system installation.
Describe methods for implementing a customized Microsoft Office system installation.
Describe the Office Customization Tool.
Describe the Feature Installation states
Describe how to configure user settings.
Describe how to create different configuration settings for groups of users.
Create a customized network installation point.
Describe how to create a Network Installation point.
Describe how to upload the customization file.
Control Microsoft Office system settings by using Group Policy.
Describe how Group Policy templates can be used to customize the user environment.
Describe how to create a Group Policy object to control and enforce Microsoft Office system settings.
 
Course 5234: Understanding the 2007 Microsoft® Office Setup Architecture

Description:
In this 2-hour course, you learn how to install the 2007 Microsoft Office System. You learn how to customize the Microsoft Office System Setup as well as how to build and deploy a local installation source. In the lab, you will deploy and customize an Office installation.

This course helps you prepare for exam 70-624.

Student prerequisites:
Experience deploying, managing, and supporting either Windows® client systems or Office System technologies.
Familiarity with standard client and application deployment methods, such as RIS, imaging, and SMS.
Familiarity with networking fundamentals.
Familiarity with Active Directory® directory service.
Familiarity with the 2007 Office System and Windows Vista™.
 
Objectives:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
Customizing the Microsoft Office System setup.
Describe the steps involved in installing the Microsoft Office system.
Describe running Setup.exe.
Describe running the command line options.
Describe how Setup reads XML data to build the feature tree.
Describe how to apply a customization file.
Describe how to apply software updates.
Describe how to deploy the Microsoft Office system to non-administrator users.
Deploying the Local Installation Source.
Describe the use and benefits of a local installation source.
Describe how to create a local installation source on network clients.
Describe how to customize the local installation source.
Describe methods used to deploy using the local installation source by itself.
Run setup from the local installation source.
 
Course 5235: Selecting a 2007 Microsoft® Office System Client Deployment Method

Description:
In this 2-hour course, you learn about different methods of deploying the 2007 Microsoft Office System. You learn how to deploy using manual deployment, as well as using automated methods such as the BDD, SMS, and group policy. In the lab, you will use automated methods to deploy the 2007 Office System.

This course helps you prepare for exam 70-624.

Student prerequisites:
Experience deploying, managing, and supporting either Windows® client systems or Office System technologies.
Familiarity with standard client and application deployment methods, such as RIS, imaging, and SMS.
Familiarity with networking fundamentals.
Familiarity with Active Directory® directory service.
Familiarity with the 2007 Office System and Windows Vista™.
 
Objectives:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
Describe manual deployment
Describe manual installation methods.
Describe how manual methods are used to deploy the Microsoft Office system.
Describe imitations of manual deployment methods.
Describe using Automated Methods to deploy.
Describe Business Desktop Deployment.
Describe deploying using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS).
Describe deployment requirements for medium to large organizations.
Describe how to deploy the Microsoft Office system with the BDD Workbench tool.
Describe using Group Policy to deploy.
Describe how Group Policy is used to deploy the Microsoft Office system to a computer.
Describe how Group Policy is used to deploy the Microsoft Office system to a user.
List guidelines for Group Policy deployment
Describe the limitations of using Group Policy to deploy the Microsoft Office system.
 
Course 5236: Deploying 2007 Microsoft® Office System in Multilingual Environments
 
Description:
In this 2-hour course, you learn about the multi-language features of the 2007 Microsoft Office System. You learn about the features that are supported in the current version, as well as how they are configured. In the lab, you enable multi-language features in an installation.

This course helps you prepare for exam 70-624.

Student prerequisites:
Experience deploying, managing, and supporting either Windows® client systems or Office System technologies.
Familiarity with standard client and application deployment methods, such as RIS, imaging, and SMS.
Familiarity with networking fundamentals.
Familiarity with Active Directory® directory service.
Familiarity with the 2007 Office System and Windows Vista™.
 
Objectives:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
Describe how Multiple Languages are supported in current and earlier versions of Microsoft Office.
Describe how multiple languages are supported in earlier versions of Office.
Describe the changes to multilingual support in the 2007 Microsoft Office System.
Describe how to add an additional language to the 2007 Microsoft Office System.
Describe the changes to Multiple Language support in the 2007 Microsoft Office System.
Explain how to deploy multiple languages for the 2007 Microsoft Office System.
Describe how to customize a Multiple Language deployment.
Describe the Office Customization tool behavior.