Office 2007 Enterprise Deployment - Name and Initials Prompt JacobP 3/5/2007 4:24:27 PM Hello all, We're preparing Office 2007 Enterprise for deployment in our student labs and are running into an issue. It seems that every new user that logs in is prompted to enter their full name and initials. This means that every time a student logs into a new machine somewhere they will see this dialog. I've attempted to add the USERNAME and USERINITIALS properties to the installer via the OCT, however that was unsuccessful as those properties are blocked. I have also tried using config.xml in order that I be able to enter these properties, however this was unsuccessful as well. The dialog still remains. As follows is a copy of my config.xml file (with correct information inserted in the PIDKEY, USERNAME, USERINITIALS, and COMPANYNAME fields). <Configuration Product="ENTERPRISE"> <Display Level="basic" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" /> <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="NEVER" /> <PIDKEY Value="SERIALNUMBER" /> <USERNAME Value="USERNAME" /> <USERINITIALS Value="USERINITIALS" /> <COMPANYNAME Value="COMPANYTNAME" /> <OptionState Id="ACCESSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //access <OptionState Id="OUTLOOKFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //outlook <OptionState Id="PubPrimary" State="Local" Children="force" /> //publisher <OptionState Id="AceRepl" State="Local" Children="force" /> //access db Engine replication <OptionState Id="CAGFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //Clip Organizer <OptionState Id="MSSOAP3" State="Local" Children="force" /> //SOAP toolkit <OptionState Id="OsaNonBoot" State="Local" Children="force" /> //new,open office docu lnks <OptionState Id="ProofingTools_1036" State="absent" Children="force" /> //french <OptionState Id="ProofingTools_3082" State="absent" Children="force" /> //spanish <OptionState Id="WISPFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //handwriting <OptionState Id="DocServicesFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //docu update util <OptionState Id="HTMLSourceEditing" State="Local" Children="force" /> //script editor <OptionState Id="DocumentImagingUtils" State="Local" Children="force" /> //scanning,ocr,indexing <OptionState Id="OISFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //picture manager <OptionState Id="OSESupp" State="Local" Children="force" /> //sharepoint support <OptionState Id="QueryFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //msQuery <OptionState Id="VisioPreviewerFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //visio viewer <OptionState Id="XDOCSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //infopath <!-- These are additionals from Enterprise RTM --> <OptionState Id="GrooveFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //groove <OptionState Id="OneNoteFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //onenote <OptionState Id="RefIEBarFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //research explorer bar <OptionState Id="WebDriveFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //hosted webs <OptionState Id="VBAFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //VB for applications <OptionState Id="OfficeDigitalSFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //vba certificates </Configuration> I've also attempted using a capture of the changes made to the registry from before entering the username and initials in the prompt to after that, and the changes made appear in HKEY_USERS followed by a long string followed by \Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo. I unfortunately cannot seem to import these changes back into the registry of a clean machine either before or after Office 2007 is installed (as an administrator user). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, JacobP

Re: Office 2007 Enterprise Deployment - Name and Initials Prompt Gerry Hickman <gerry666uk[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> 3/5/2007 9:39:14 PM Hi, Ultimately, this is a PER USER setting, not to be confused with a PER MACHINE setting; it's supposed to be different for each user and they're supposed to complete it the first time they log in. However, after the first login they should never see the prompt again because it will roam with their profile. You have to watch out for Office because sometimes it will try to write to a user hive at install time. This is bad design. It's to try and make it "seem" more convenient on home computers where multiple users log into the same machine. A classic case is where Office 2003 tries to set CTFMON.EXE to run from the HKCU hive - this is extremely bad design and can lead to problems when you go to upgrade to a new version. The HKCU hive does not know you've changed software versions, so the old settings will still be there! If you don't want any per user settings - e.g. you want everyone to be called "Student" you could set up a mandatory profile instead. You could also force it to work like this by hacking the logon script. The logon script runs in the context of the user, not the machine. JacobP wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello all, > > We're preparing Office 2007 Enterprise for deployment in our student labs > and are running into an issue. It seems that every new user that logs in is > prompted to enter their full name and initials. This means that every time a > student logs into a new machine somewhere they will see this dialog. I've > attempted to add the USERNAME and USERINITIALS properties to the installer > via the OCT, however that was unsuccessful as those properties are blocked. > I have also tried using config.xml in order that I be able to enter these > properties, however this was unsuccessful as well. The dialog still remains. > As follows is a copy of my config.xml file (with correct information > inserted in the PIDKEY, USERNAME, USERINITIALS, and COMPANYNAME fields). > > <Configuration Product="ENTERPRISE"> > > <Display Level="basic" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" > AcceptEula="yes" /> > <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="NEVER" /> > > <PIDKEY Value="SERIALNUMBER" /> > <USERNAME Value="USERNAME" /> > <USERINITIALS Value="USERINITIALS" /> > <COMPANYNAME Value="COMPANYTNAME" /> > > <OptionState Id="ACCESSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //access > <OptionState Id="OUTLOOKFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //outlook > <OptionState Id="PubPrimary" State="Local" Children="force" /> //publisher > <OptionState Id="AceRepl" State="Local" Children="force" /> //access db > Engine replication > <OptionState Id="CAGFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //Clip Organizer > <OptionState Id="MSSOAP3" State="Local" Children="force" /> //SOAP toolkit > <OptionState Id="OsaNonBoot" State="Local" Children="force" /> //new,open > office docu lnks > <OptionState Id="ProofingTools_1036" State="absent" Children="force" /> > //french > <OptionState Id="ProofingTools_3082" State="absent" Children="force" /> > //spanish > <OptionState Id="WISPFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //handwriting > <OptionState Id="DocServicesFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //docu > update util > <OptionState Id="HTMLSourceEditing" State="Local" Children="force" /> > //script editor > <OptionState Id="DocumentImagingUtils" State="Local" Children="force" /> > //scanning,ocr,indexing > <OptionState Id="OISFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //picture manager > <OptionState Id="OSESupp" State="Local" Children="force" /> //sharepoint > support > <OptionState Id="QueryFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //msQuery > <OptionState Id="VisioPreviewerFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> > //visio viewer > <OptionState Id="XDOCSFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //infopath > > <!-- These are additionals from Enterprise RTM --> > <OptionState Id="GrooveFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //groove > <OptionState Id="OneNoteFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //onenote > <OptionState Id="RefIEBarFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> > //research explorer bar > <OptionState Id="WebDriveFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //hosted > webs > <OptionState Id="VBAFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //VB for > applications > <OptionState Id="OfficeDigitalSFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> > //vba certificates > > </Configuration> > > > > I've also attempted using a capture of the changes made to the registry from > before entering the username and initials in the prompt to after that, and > the changes made appear in HKEY_USERS followed by a long string followed by > \Software\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo. I unfortunately cannot seem to > import these changes back into the registry of a clean machine either before > or after Office 2007 is installed (as an administrator user). Any help would > be greatly appreciated. > > > Thank you, > > JacobP -- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Re: Office 2007 Enterprise Deployment - Name and Initials Prompt JacobP 3/23/2007 11:56:18 AM Gerry, Thank you for your reply, however our lab machines are not currently based around a Windows domain. Each machine is somewhat standalone in that a user account is created on the machine when he or she logs into the machine for the first time. Because of this, even though this is a PER USER setting as you say, it is essentially operating as a PER MACHINE setting. We do not want the dialog to appear each time a user logs in to a new machine as it will be an annoyance. JacobP