Re: OT: OpenOffice

2008-10-22 Thread Kurt Buff
was reading up on things, I would've sworn that OpenOffice's website > said it could be configured via GPO like Office? > > > > -Original Message- > From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:34 PM > To: NT Sys

Re: OT: OpenOffice

2008-10-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
I would love to see the link for that. It is most definitely NOT in the 2.4.x releases. Keep in mind that deploying it through GPO is trivially easy - the .exe you download from the web site is a self-extracting executable containing a standard MSI. You just need to create an administrative insta

RE: OT: OpenOffice

2008-10-22 Thread John Hornbuckle
When I was reading up on things, I would've sworn that OpenOffice's website said it could be configured via GPO like Office? -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subje

Re: OT: OpenOffice

2008-10-22 Thread Kurt Buff
First, make sure you get the latest version. Second, test a couple of your most complex spreadsheets, and also a couple of your largest Word docs, especially with complex formatting. If you can convert those back and forth with no issues, or at with tolerably well (for your organization), and the

Re: OT: OpenOffice

2008-10-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
Third-party plugins. A free office suite is worthless if it can't interoperate with other applications you have in your environment. 99.9% of all applications that integrate with an office suite won't work with anything but a recent MS Office. Clipart. In the schools I've where attempted to deploy

Re: OT: OpenOffice

2008-10-22 Thread Jon Harris
We just a new person that I could ask but I know he hates Open Office. I believe he referenced to me as Broken Office. I am not sure why but I could ask for details. I believe it had something to do with conversions not working right and having to put add-on software on the machine that made som