Microsoft® Windows® Group Policy Guide

Introducing Office Configuration Management

Office is a large software application suite. Deploying and managing Office is more complex than managing Windows itself or related Windows components. You can manage your Office installations using:

• Custom Installation Wizard, which allows you to create .mst transform files for customizing Office installations. You can use the wizard to choose the folder location to install Microsoft Office; specify whether to remove previous versions of Office applications; configure whether and how various Office applications are installed; create a profile with default application settings, registry entries, and shortcuts; and set security and other options for Office.

• Custom Maintenance Wizard, which allows you to ...