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Comment on Managing Office 2008 by Jason

Jason — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:11:20 +0000

First, thanks for the great, really helpful site. Second, our issue with this…

We our using these and a number of other MCX preferences for Office 2008 successfully on new clients running OS 10.6.2 with servers on 10.5.8.

Given that success, we wanted to go ahead and install Office 2008 on Intel Core Solo Mac Minis that are running OS 10.4.11. We knew that we would get some significant performance and management benefits from moving these machines from Office 2004 to 2008. We deployed the install via ARD as per the instructions on the MS:Mac website so as not to compromise security. We have preferences set in WGM exactly the same as they are for the 10.6 iMacs. (com.microsoft.office: 2008\FirstRun\SetupAssistCompleted; Value: 1; Integer; State: often)

>>>When you log in as a user with his or her network home account and launch Word, Excel, or PowerPoint for the first time, the Setup Assistant still opens. Why?

The only differences between the labs that are working and those that aren’t are:
- OS (10.4 vs. 10.6)
- Installation Method (Package install deployed via ARD in 10.4 vs. Installed through image deployment in 10.6)
- Processor (Intel Core Solo-10.4 vs. Intel Core 2 Duo-10.6)
- RAM (512 MB-10.4 vs. 2 GB-10.6)

Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated!

Thank you…

Comment on Apple Software Update wishes by Amber Spencer

Amber Spencer — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:18:50 +0000

Go call steve jobs:Dhehehe:D

Comment on Firefox default settings by GregN

GregN — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:15:50 +0000

In Terminal,

vi /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/greprefs/all.js

or right-click/control-click on Firefox.app, Show Contents, then drill down through Contents/MacOS/greprefs and use a GUI text editor, but make sure you save as plain text (not Rich Text) and that you don’t add a “.txt” extension to the end of the filename.

Comment on Firefox default settings by Cynthia Morris

Cynthia Morris — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:19:25 +0000

How do you edit the /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/greyprefs/all.js In Terminal? How do you get there?

Comment on MCX, dslocal, and Leopard by Michael Linde

Michael Linde — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:58:21 +0000

I did it a couple ways before trying a clean image, but even with the clean image (reboots and logouts tried) I can’t get it going. Now I’m SURE it’s something simple. Just what, is the question…

Comment on MCX, dslocal, and Leopard by GregN

GregN — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:36:15 +0000

Odd. My Local MCX computergroups (which include a “local_desktop” and/or “local_laptop”) were brought over from my 10.5 setup without change and generally work as expected. I’ve seen no real issues.

Have you used mcxquery and/or mcxrefresh? Note that loginwindow managed preference changes require at least a logout to take effect.

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Comment on MCX, dslocal, and Leopard by Michael Linde

Michael Linde — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:22:08 +0000

I’m having a headache with this, and willing for ideas on where to look. I just started working on migration to SL (10.6.2) and my 10.5.x Local MCX settings don’t work (which is fine, I guess).

So I did the clean break setup, put a machine up with nothing but a clean install of SL, patched fully to 10.6.2, downloaded 10.6.2 Server Admin, created a new local computer record, added the MAC address, and applied login window settings. They show up in the local node in WGM, but don’t apply. I checked /Library and there is no Managed Preferences folder being created?

Comment on Managing Office 2008 by Efren Palacios

Efren Palacios — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:27:26 +0000

Thank you Greg for such a great in-depth article. It saved me tons of work.

-Efren

Comment on Managing Office 2008 by Efren Palacios

Efren Palacios — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:23:01 +0000

Tim,

I was getting the same error message as you. My fix was to add the following files to Workgroup Manager’s “Detail” section.

com.microsoft.entourage.database_daemon.plist
com.microsoft.entourage.database_utility.plist

Don’t ask me why but Office seems to need these files to verify the integrity of the database.

Hope it helps.

-Efren