Hello OpenOffice.org Newsletter, I am writing to alert you to a new product that will probably be of interest to a large number of your readers.
Many organizations use standard Microsoft tools such as Active Directory, Group Policy and Microsoft Management Console to manage their desktop computers. These are familiar tools to Windows' system administrators, and allow them to perform common operations such as software installation and configuration from a central console. The OpenOffice.org office suite does not offer the ability to be managed using these tools. To date, this has hindered or prevented many organizations from adopting OpenOffice.org as their standard office suite. Our company, Open Office Technology, Inc., released this week the first enterprise management solution for OpenOffice.org. The product is called OpenOffice-Enterprise. OpenOffice-Enterprise allows a system administrator to manage OpenOffice settings on all Windows machines in a network using standard Microsoft tools, including Group Policy, Active Directory and Microsoft Management Console. OpenOffice-Enterprise provides access to over 25,000 configuration settings in the OpenOffice.org office suite. Typical uses would be to enforce enterprise policies for file formats, directory paths, language, fonts, meta-data values, menu and command access, and more. A system administrator can set mandatory values that cannot be changed by users, as well as default values that a user can override. Different settings can be applied to different groups of users and computers. Changes are propagated to the desktop systems in minutes. OpenOffice-Enterprise can play a crucial role in all stages of OpenOffice deployment. Prior to application rollout, OpenOffice-Enterprise allows interactive browsing of OpenOffice.org configuration settings. A system administrator can change and test the operation of each setting. Once the desired settings have been determined, OpenOffice-Enterprise eases rollout by deploying configuration policies together with the application. Following installation, OpenOffice-Enterprise facilitates reliable reconfiguration. Changes can be isolated to a small group of computers until they are thoroughly tested. In the event of a security threat, OpenOffice-Enterprise can also be used to rapidly disable vulnerable features until systems are patched or anti-virus signatures updated. Finally, OpenOffice-Enterprise makes upgrades easy. When a new version of the OpenOffice.org suite is released, a system administrator can simply install the update. Existing configuration settings will continue to be enforced, without any additional effort. OpenOffice-Enterprise can be downloaded from our website at http://OpenOfficeTechnology.com, and installed on up to five computers and without charge for the purpose of testing and evaluation. Licensing is $400 per year for 100 users, and $2 per year for each additional user. Full support is included. Our website also includes instructions for performing a network installation of OpenOffice, as well as an OpenOffice Configuration KnowledgeBase. These resources are located at http://OpenOfficeTechnology.com/documentation If anyone would like more information about OpenOffice-Enterprise or how it might help them deploy the OpenOffice.org suite, they can contact us for further information at http://OpenOfficeTechnology.com/contact. Thank you, Allen Pulsifer Open Office Technology, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
