General Information

Course Duration: 4 hours

Audience: System administrators, system integrators, training managers, and IT support personnel

Prerequisites: Knowledge of deploying and administering Microsoft Office 97, or similar end-user products

Topics Covered

• Background
• New and improved features
• Benefits to the administrator
• The Microsoft Windows Installer
• The Custom Installation Wizard
• Hands-on: Customizing an installation
• The Office Profile Wizard
• Server Extensions
• File compatibility and migration
• The Web
• Newsgroups and e-mail
• Databases
• Rollout considerations
• Programmability
• Support
• Maintenance and troubleshooting
• Hands-on: Restoring user settings

Course Aim

To introduce some of the tools and techniques available for installing, deploying, and maintaining Microsoft Office 2000

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, the user should be able to

• outline the new features of Office which affect the role of the administrator
  
  
• use wizards to create customized Office 2000 installation sets
  
  
• discuss some of the fundamental benefits of integrating Office 2000 with BackOffice systems
  
  
• describe the enhanced developer and support facilities available in Office 2000
  
  
• perform restoration of user settings