Updated: 2009-11-30

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Published the week of November 30, 2009

Using different versions of Outlook for manager/delegate pairs (white paper)   This white paper discusses issues related to running different versions of Microsoft Office for manager/delegate pairs (for example, Microsoft Outlook 2003 and Microsoft Outlook 2007). Included is a statement from the Office product team on the issue, and discussion of general issues, user-reported issues, and calendar risk areas for this scenario.

Updated the week of November 30, 2009

Office Customization Tool in the 2007 Office system, Distribute product updates for the 2007 Office system, and Setup architecture overview for the 2007 Office system   These articles have been updated with information about the use of the Updates folder.

2007 Office Resource Kit Technical Library in Compiled Help format (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=127842&clcid=0x409)   The entire library for the 1st_Office12 is now available as a downloadable .chm file. This download includes all content in the library as of November 30, 2009.

Updated the week of September 21, 2009

Introduction to Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM)   This article provides an overview about the Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM), a collection of tools that enables you to prepare your environment for migration to the 2007 Microsoft Office system. A new section has been added about completely removing OMPM from your system.

Blog post for the week of September 14, 2009

Updates for Outlook Junk E-mail Filters September 2009   This blog post announces updates to junk e-mail filters for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

Blog post for the week of September 7, 2009

2007 Office system: Resource Centers for IT administrators   This blog post announces 2007 Office system Resource Centers for IT administrators who manage Office desktops.

Blog post for the week of August 24, 2009

Security updates for August 2009   This blog post announces the Office security updates published in August, 2009.

Published the week of August 3, 2009

Group Policy and OCT settings reference for the 2007 Office system   This article includes a Microsoft Office Excel 97-2003 workbook (Office2007GroupPolicyAndOCTSettings.xls) that provides information about Group Policy settings and Office Customization Tool (OCT) settings—including default values—for the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

Published the week of July 27, 2009

Deploy different Microsoft Office 2007 suites (step-by-step)   This article describes the options available to deploy different Microsoft Office 2007 suites to the same computer and includes procedural information for each option: side-by-side and uninstall-install.

Blog posts for the week of July 27, 2009

Security updates for July 2009 (http://blogs.technet.com/office_resource_kit/archive/2009/07/16/july-2009-security-update.aspx)   This blog post announces the Office security updates published in July, 2009.

2007 Office ribbon and toolbar learning resources (http://blogs.technet.com/office_resource_kit/archive/2009/07/10/2007-office-ribbon-and-toolbar-learning-resources.aspx)   This blog post announces the Office 2007 ribbon and toolbar portal, which provides information about the learning resources and tools available for the ribbon and toolbar.

Published the week of July 20, 2009

Delegate feature architecture in Office Outlook 2007 (white paper)   This white paper provides an overview of the architecture of the delegate feature in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Office Outlook 2003, and the different pieces of data that are used by the feature. This white paper also provides troubleshooting methodologies for working with the delegate feature.

Register the 2007 Office system file format MIME types on servers   This article discusses the requirement of registering Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) types on servers to enable them to recognize the new file formats in the 2007 Office system. Also provided is a table that contains the new 2007 Office file types and the required MIME types you need to register.

Use Group Policy to specify where users can save 2007 Office system files   This article describes how to configure Group Policy policy settings to specify and enforce where users can save 2007 Office system files, and then lists the corresponding values that are set in the registry on user computers.

Updated the week of July 20, 2009

Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Office system   This article has been updated to provide more information about each SP2 update for the 2007 Office system, an overview of the improvements provided by the overall SP2 update, and links to more information about deploying the updates.

Blog post for the week of June 22, 2009

Security updates for June 2009 (http://blogs.technet.com/office_resource_kit/archive/2009/06/17/june-2009-security-updates-for-office.aspx)   This blog post announces the Microsoft security updates released in June.

Updated the week of June 22, 2009

Downloadable book: Deployment for the 2007 Office release, Downloadable book: Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) guide for the 2007 Office release, and Downloadable book: Operations for the 2007 Office release   Updated versions of these downloadable books are now available. Downloadable books contain content from the TechNet technical library, which is revised regularly. These updated books include the most recent version of this content as of June 2009.

Blog post for the week of June 15, 2009

Assessment tools cheat sheet (http://blogs.technet.com/office_resource_kit/archive/2009/06/10/assessment-tools-cheat-sheet.aspx)   Have a look at the newly published article Assessment tools for the 2007 Office system and let us know what you think.

Updated the week of June 15, 2009

Distribute product updates for the 2007 Office system   This article provides information about deploying software updates for the 2007 Office system. It has been updated to include examples of deploying the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Updated the week of June 8, 2009

Customize language settings for the 2007 Office system   This article has been updated to include a new section, "Enable users to view the new language settings on first open." This section provides the registry settings you can configure to enable users to see language settings when they first open 2007 Microsoft Office system applications.

Apply service packs to applications in the 2007 Office system   This article has been renamed and updated to include information about Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Its former title was "Update the 2007 Office system applications for Service Pack 1."