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Re: Office 2004 updates via ARD



On 2/10/07 15:11, "Bennie L. Callies, Jr." <email@hidden> wrote:

>> Unfortunately, that only works if you have a site/volume license.  If you
>> have nodelocked 
>> licenses for Office 2004, it's not going to work because all the clients will
>> suddenly have the
>> same license as your machine and nodelocked licenses have to be unique, which
>> means you've 
>> got to blow away the OfficePID files and reauthorize each individual
>> installation--a royal
>> pain in the derriere.
>> 
> 
> The copying of the entire Office Install is also an issue if you Administer
> computers in various cities and eithe don't have a huge outbound pipeline or
> don't have a Task Server in each branch (or both in my case).

Both of those are good reasons as to why the "just do a complete reinstall
for every update" isn't the most optimal solution

-- 
John C. Welch         Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com              Mac and other opinions
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