As we’re hearing, Microsoft is ready to deploy Vista SP2 and Windows 7 Beta 1. Beside it Office SP2 is being prepared and today Microsoft announced Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System.
TechNet Blog says:
We’re pleased to announce that Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office system is expected to be released in the near future. Although we aren’t yet announcing the exact release date, it will fall between February and April of 2009.
Historically, we have waited to communicate details about service packs until their release (or very shortly before). As we communicated with SP3 for Office 2003 and SP1 for the 2007 Office System, we will be taking steps to increase transparency and visibility into the Office servicing model at the request of our customers. To that end, we would like to start sharing some details into what will be included in SP2 for the 2007 Office system. This is by no means an exhaustive list of everything included in this service pack and we will share more details prior to the final release, but we want to start communicating to customers what they should be aware of at a high level.
To be fair, this is not the first time we have talked about SP2. Several months ago, we announced that we’ll be further demonstrating our increased commitment to interoperability by including support for Open Document Format (ODF), XML Paper Specification (XPS), and Portable Document Format (PDF) in SP2. In addition to those file format additions, some other highlights that you’ll find in SP2 include:
For Office Desktop Programs:
- Improved Outlook Calendaring Reliability
- Improved Outlook Performance
- Enabling Object Model support for Charts in PowerPoint and Word
- Improved cryptographic functionality by supporting all cryptographic algorithms offered by the operating system
- Improved functionality in Excel’s charting mechanism
- Ability to ungroup SmartArt graphics (and as a result, the ability to add animations to them in PowerPoint)
- Ability for Visio to export UML models to an XML file compliant with the XMI standard
- Tool that enables the uninstall of Office client Service Packs
For Servers:
- Performance and manageability improvements to variations in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) including STSADM commands for repairing links between source and target pages
- Improvements around processing status approvals from Office Project Web Access into Office Project Professional 2007
- Improvements to read-only content databases and index rebuild timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
In the coming weeks, individual product teams across Office will begin updating their blogs and highlighting some of the specific work that they’ve included in SP2. You can find the links to some of the blogs at the end of the post.
In the next few days we will also invite a select set of Office enterprise customers to a private SP2 beta. From these customers we hope to gather great feedback about the service pack, including areas that we’ll need to improve upon before we release it to the general public. Based on the success of the SP2 beta program and customer needs, we will certainly evaluate whether to expand this in the future.
Please check back for additional updates!
Thanks,
Office Service Pack Team
Source: TechNet Blog
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Microsoft is planning the release of Office 2007 SP2 in the first half of calendar year 2009. The beta is expected to be available in the October/November 2008 timeframe. They have the opportunity to give a select group of customers access to the Beta once it’s ready. If you use Access 2007 heavily this is your chance to get involved early and help to find bugs that may affect your applications. Click here to contact and make sure you include the following information.
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Privacy is the main concern in unsecured computing environment, so its simple registry trick that help to erase history of most recent used files shortcut from Office button.
Run Registry Editor (type regedit in Start search or Run Dialog box and press return key)
Click on Continue to pass UAC validation.
Now navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\< Product-Name >\File MRU
Like:
For Microsoft Word
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\File MRU
For Microsoft Excel
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\File MRU
For Microsoft Access
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Access\File MRU
And so on…
Now just delete all values titled Item1, Item2, Item3 … so on from RHS and Office 2007 history’ll be erased.
How do I ?, Microsoft Office
There are a lot of set up switches that are used to perform advance installation or deployment of Office. These switch option can be added to context menu handler to installation source disc by editing the autorun.inf
Its original code of autorun.inf file
[autorun]
OPEN=SETUP.EXE
ICON=SETUP.EXE,0
shell\configure=&Configure…
shell\configure\command=SETUP.EXE
shell\install=&Install…
shell\install\command=SETUP.EXE
Edit this code to this and add some advance switches to context menu handler
[autorun]
OPEN=SETUP.EXE
ICON=SETUP.EXE,0
shell\configure=&Configure…
shell\configure\command=SETUP.EXE
shell\install=&Install…
shell\install\command=SETUP.EXE
shell\admin\=&Launch the Office Customization Tool
shell\admin\command=SETUP.EXE /admin
shell\cmdline\=setup &Controller Command-Line Help
shell\cmdline\command=SETUP.EXE /?
How do I ?, Microsoft Office
Microsoft released Office 2007 SP1 update. It includes important customer-requested stability and performance improvements, while incorporating further enhancements to user security. This service pack also includes all of the updates released for the 2007 Office suite prior to December of 2007.
Now, Today I am sharing a simple tutorial that help to slipstream this update into Office 2007 RTM. It saves update installation time after installing Office 2007 RTM and you can make your up-to-date Office 2007 DVD! Microsoft has been change the way to deploy Office 2007 updates. Now it has become so easier than earlier Office suites. Its simple three step deployment.
# Extract the MSP file of update
# Copy into updates folder at root of Office 2007 disc
# Make your Office 2007 up-to-date DVD
Requires:
1. Microsoft Office 2007 RTM
This guide works on all Microsoft Office 2007 versions which are:
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
Microsoft Office Professional 2007
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
Microsoft Office Small Business 2007
Microsoft Office Standard 2007
Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007
2. Microsoft Office 2007 SP1
How to-
1) Create three folders Office2007, OfficeSP1 and Offfice2007SPMSP (Lets say all folders are created at root of D:\ drive)
2) Copy all contents of Office 2007 RTM, Downloaded Office SP1 update into Office2007 and Office2007SP1 respectively. (Your folder name may vary…I am just taking an example only.)
3) Now open Command Prompt and execute below command to get Office 2007 SP update MSP (Windows Installer Patch)
D:\Office2007SP1\office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:D\Office2007SP1MSP
Accept the license and continue.
4.) Now Copy all *.msp files from Office2007SP1MSP to updates folder located under D:\Office2007\updates
5.) Make CD or DVD of your Office suite and enjoy!
All update *.msp files are installed at the end installation of Office 2007.
How do I ?, Microsoft Office
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